You need both clarity and earnestness

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You need both clarity and earnestness for

self-knowledge. You need maturity of heart

and mind, which comes through earnest

application in daily life of whatever little

you have understood. There is no such thing

as compromise in Yoga.

 

If you wan to sin, sin wholeheartedly and

openly. Sins too have their lessons to teach

the earnest sinner, as virtues - the earnest

saint. It is the mixing up of the two that is

so disastrous. Nothing can block you so

effectively as compromise, for it shows

lack of earnestness, without which nothing

can be done.

 

- Nisargadatta Maharaj

 

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" I Am That "

Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

The Acorn Press, 1973

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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