' When the mind is quiet '...

When the mind is quiet, we come to know
ourselves as the pure witness.

We withdraw
from the experience and its experiencer and
stand apart in pure awareness, which is
between and beyond the two.

The personality,
based on self-identification, on imagining
oneself to be something:

‘I am this, I am that’,
continues, but only as a part of the objective
world. Its identification with the witness snaps.


- Nisargadatta Maharaj