The cause of suffering...

It is only your mind that prevents self-knowledge.

[The cause of suffering is] self-identification with the limited. Sensations as such, however strong, do not cause suffering. It is the mind, bewildered by wrong ideas, addicted to thinking "I am this", "I am that", that fears loss and craves gain and suffers when frustrated.

Nothing can trouble you but your own imagination. (

There is no such thing as peace of mind. Mind means disturbance; restlessness itself is mind.

A level of maturity is reached when nothing external is of any value, and the heart is ready to relinquish all. Then the real has a chance and it grasps it. Delays, if any, are caused by the mind being unwilling to see or discard.



Nisargadatta Maharaj from I Am That