keep it on the fire

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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 must

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.

 

After all, you are what you are every moment of your life, but you are never

conscious of it, except maybe, at the point of awakening from sleep. All you

need is to be aware of being, not as a verbal statement, but as a

ever-present fact. The awareness that you are will open your eyes to what

you are. It is all very simple. First of all, establish a constant contact with

your

self, be with yourself all the time. Into self-awareness all blessings flow.

 

Once you have understood that nothing perceivable, or conceivable can be

yourself, you are free of your imaginations. To see everything as imagination,

born of desire, is neccesary for self-realization. We miss the real by lack of

attention and create the unreal by excess of imagination.

You have to give your heart and mind to these things and brood over them

repeatedly. It is like cooking food. You must keep it on the fire for some time

 

before it is ready.

 

- Nissargadatta from I AM That