When the world does not hold and bind you, it becomes an abode of joy and beauty. You can be happy in the world only when you are free of it. - Nisargadatta Maharaj

What problems can there be which the mind did not create? Life and death do not create problems; pains and pleasures come and go, experienced and forgotten. It is memory and anticipation that create problems of attainment or avoidance, colored by like and dislike. Truth and love are man’s real nature, and mind and heart are the means of its expression.

As you are now, the personality is only an obstacle. Self-identification with the body may be good for an infant, but true growing up depends on getting the body out of the way. Normally, one should outgrow body-based desires early in life. (…)

If you have contact with pure consciousness even for a moment, you are liberated.