Sublime

this very effort to “become” is the barrier—because you are already carrying your being with you. You need not become anything—simply realize who you are, that’s all. Simply realize who is hidden within you. Improving, whatsoever you improve, you will always be in anxiety and anguish because the very effort to improve is leading you on a wrong path

freedom. The twentieth-century Indian meditation master Sri Nisargadatta

Vedanta,

Sufi teacher Idries Shah

The very effort to “become” is a barrier—because you are already carrying your being with you. you need not become anything—simply realize who you are, that’s all. Simply realize who is hidden within you.

wound in you disappears; you are healed, you are whole—the ego is your disease. And when the ego disappears you are no longer dormant, you start flowing. You start flowing with the immense flow of existence.

So, start to realize you have nothing. You are nothing. When you can get to the point where you can say, “I am nothing,” you’re free, because at that point, you’re everything. If you define yourself, then there’s all sorts of stuff that you’re not. Hold on to nothing. Use things, enjoy them, be grateful and give thanks, and when you’re finished wit