Skepticism is the beginning of Faith.
-Oscar Wilde
Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.
Do you become spiritual by performing ceremonies and rituals…? Ceremonies and rituals sometimes give a certain sensation, so-called uplift. But they are repetitious, and every sensation that is repeated soon wearies of itself.
Those who read books cannot understand the teachings and, what’s more, may even go astray. But those who try to observe the things going on in the mind, and always take that which is true in their own minds as their standard; never get muddled.
Fight with yourself, why fight with external foes? He, who overcomes self will obtain happiness.
As science needs "energy" to change the form of any matter, even you need energy to transform your nature. If you don't have the energy, even if you desire, you will not be able to bring a change in yourself.
-Deep Trivedi
Self-inquiry is the process and the goal also. ‘I am’ is the goal and the final reality. To hold to it with effort is self-inquiry. When spontaneous and natural it is realisation.