"M: ...Find what it is that never sleeps and never wakes, and whose pale reflection is our sense of 'I.'
Q: How do you go about finding this?
M: How do you go about finding anything? By keeping your mind and heart on it. There must be interest and steady remembrance. To remember what needs to be remembered is the secret of success. You come to it through earnestness.
Q: Do you mean to say that mere wanting to find out is enough? Surely both qualifications and opportunities are needed.
M: These will come with earnestness. What is supremely important is to be free from contradictions; the goal and the way must not be on different levels, life and light must not quarrel; behavior must not betray belief. Call it honesty, integrity, wholeness, you must not go back, undo, uproot, and abandon conquered ground. Tenacity of purpose and honesty of pursuit will bring to your goal.
Q: Tenacity and honesty are endowments, surely! I do not have a trace of them.
M: All will come as you go on. Take the first step first. All blessings come from within. Turn within. 'I am' you know. Be with it all the time you can spare, until you revert to it spontaneously. There is no simpler and easier way."
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
I Am That
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