enough of being you

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Give all your attention to the question: "What is it that makes me

conscious?", until your mind becomes the question itself and cannot think of

anything else. (447)

 

Try to be, only to be. The all-important word is "try". Allot enough time

daily for sitting quietly and trying, just trying, to go beyond the

personality with its addictions and obsessions.

 

Don't ask how, it cannot be explained. You just keep on trying until you

succeed. If you persevere, there can be no failure. What matters supremely

is sincerity, earnestness;

 

you must really have had surfeit of being the person you are;

 

now see the urgent need of being free of this unnecessary

self-identification with a bundle of memories and habits. This steady

resistance against the unnecessary is the secret of success. (509)

 

The value of regular meditation is that it takes you away from the humdrum

of daily routine and reminds you that your not what you believe yourself to

be. (492)

 

_I Am That_ ~ Nisargadatta