Reflections

Everyday ruminate over your experiences. All the differences you find in the world are only reflections of your mind. Whether you love someone or hate someone, or ridicule somebody, they are all your reflections only...


The senses and the intellect can discern only the external nature of existence – they cannot discern the ultimate reality.  The intellect considers all things in terms of ideas or concepts; it searches for reasons, similarities, and differences; it speculates, compares, and arrives at conclusions; and it deals in pairs of opposites – all in terms of ideas.  For its ideas are its symbols for things.


All the names and forms that fill up this universe and constitute its nature are but creations of the mind...

                                
                                             Sri Sathya Sai Baba

The mind and feelings are external, but you take them to be intimate.  You believe the world to be objective, while it is entirely a projection of your psyche.
Watch your thoughts as you watch the street traffic.                                                                           
You need not stop thinking.  Just cease being interested.                                                          


Whatever may be the situation, if it is acceptable it is pleasant, if it is not acceptable, it is painful.   

Acceptance is the decisive factor...suffering is due to non-acceptance. 

Pleasure is readily accepted, while all the powers of the self reject pain.  As the acceptance of pain is 

the denial of the self, and the self stands in the way of true happiness, the wholehearted acceptance of 

pain releases the springs of happiness.    

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj