Omkaradatta's quotes

The awakened, or the guru, has the least power of all, really. Less power than the average man. Less power even than a man dying who has no hope of life. But that powerlessness, is a sort of power.

In our endless attempts to be more than we really are, we are less than we really are.

When one sees someone else as being behind a wall, one is standing on the other side with a wall in front of them.

To know that you are a prisoner of your mind, that you live in an imaginary world of your own creation, is the dawn of wisdom.

To want nothing of it, to be ready to abandon it entirely, is earnestness. Only such earnestness, born of true despair, will make you trust me.

In our ignorance we are innocent; in our actions we are guilty. We sin without knowing and suffer without understanding. Our only hope: to stop, to look, to understand and to get out of the traps of memory. For memory feeds imagination and imagination generates desire and fear.

Your notion of "truth by numbers" is reversed. Generally the more people agree on something, the falser it is -- quantity is dilution, limitation. Only at the individual (not-divisible) level is truth possible.

Stop trying to unite with God, and allow God to unite with you. Instead of seeking out the universe, let the universe inside your walls.

We may create our own hell, but neither can we, nor do we need to create our own heaven. Just stop creating hell. The absence of hell is heaven.

People often see just two options -- attachment and rejection. The third option, detachment, is often missed by the mind, which tends to think dualistically. Letting go is the answer.

When talking to others, remember both yourself and the other at the same time. Divide not. Be both yourself and the other.