Quotes by Nisargadatta Maharaj

Love tells me I'm everything. Wisdom tells me I'm nothing. Between the two, my life flows.

"When I realize I am nothing that's wisdom and when I realize I am everything that's love and between the two my life turns."   -Nisargadatta Maharaj

When I see that I am nothing, that is wisdom.  When I see that I am everything, that is love.  My life is a river between these two.

I ask you only to stop imagining that you were born, have parents, are a body, will die and so on. Just try, make a beginning--it is not as hard as you think.

Use your mind. Remember. Observe.
You are not different from others.
Most of their experiences are valid for you too.
Think clearly and deeply,
go into the structure of your desires
and their ramifications.
They are a most important part of your mental
and emotional make-up
and powerfully affect your actions.
Remember, you cannot abandon what you do not know.
To go beyond yourself, you must know yourself.

The consciousness in you and the consciousness in me, apparently two, really one, seek unity and that is love.

There is nothing to practice. To know yourself, be yourself. To be yourself, stop imagining yourself to be this or that. Just be. Let your true nature emerge. Don't disturb your mind with seeking.

To expound and propogate concepts is simple, to drop all concepts is difficult and rare.

By all means attend to your duties. Action, in which you are not emotionally involved and which is beneficial and does not cause suffering will not bind you. You may be engaged in several directions and work with enormous zest, yet remain inwardly free and quiet, with a mirror like mind, which reflects all, without being affected.

There is no such thing as a person. There are only restrictions and limitations. The sum total of these defines the person.  The person merely appears to be, like the space within the pot appears to have the shape and volume
and smell of the pot.