' The not-self '...

To know itself the self must be faced with its opposite - the not-self.

Desire leads to experience.

Experience leads to discrimination, detachment, self-knowledge - liberation.

And what is liberation after all?

To know that you are beyond birth and death.

By forgetting who you are and imagining yourself a mortal creature,

you created so much trouble for yourself that you have to wake up,

like from a bad dream.



- Nisargadatta Maharaj