What is in the world cannot save the world; if you really care to help the world, you must step out of it. - Nisargadatta Maharaj

You are concerned with your own happiness and I am telling you that there is no such thing. Happiness is never your own, it is where the ‘I’ is not.

The source of consciousness cannot be the object in consciousness. To know the source is to be the source. When you realize that you are not the person, but the pure and calm witness, and that fearless awareness is your very being, you are the being. (…)

Desire is the memory of pleasure and fear is the memory of pain. Both make the mind restless. (...)