One thing is quite clear to me; all that is, lives and moves and has its being in consciousness and I am in and beyond that consciousness. (…) - Nisargadatta Maharaj

There is nothing wrong in the idea of a body, nor even in the idea 'I am the body.' But limiting oneself to one body only is a mistake. In reality all existence, every form, is my own, within my consciousness. (…).

All happiness comes from awareness. The more we are conscious, the deeper the joy. Acceptance of pain, non-resistance, courage and endurance — these open deep and perennial sources of real happiness, true bliss.

(…) Devotion to your goal makes you live a clean and orderly life, given to search for truth and to helping people, and realization makes noble virtue easy and spontaneous, by removing for good the obstacles in the shape of desires and fears and wrong ideas.