Ed Hacker

NOTE: To all followers of Ed_4 and aax9: I am sorry to inform you that due to medical problems this is my last tweet. I have very much enjoyed spreading the wisdom of Nisargadatta and others and reading your comments. — Ed Hacker

[Can one believe himself to be realized and be mistaken?] "Of course. The very idea 'I am self-realized' is a mistake. There is no 'I am this,' 'I am that' in the Natural State.” — Nisargadatta

"With some, realization comes imperceptibly, but somehow they need convincing. They have changed, but they do not notice it. Such non-spectacular cases are often the most reliable.” — Nisargadatta

"There is nothing wrong with your world; it is your thinking yourself to be separate from it that creates disorder. Selfishness is the source of all evil.” — Nisargadatta

"There is order in my world, but it is not imposed from outside. It comes spontaneously and immediately because of its timelessness. Perfection is not in the future. It is now.” — Nisargadatta

[Some say every second of life is predetermined; others say that pure accident decides everything.] “You can have it as you like. You can distinguish a pattern in your life or see merely a chain of accidents. Explanations are meant to please the mind. They need not be true.” — N.

"The objective universe has structure, is orderly and beautiful. Nobody can deny it. But structure and pattern imply constraint and compulsion. My world is absolutely free; everything in it is self-determined. Therefore I keep on saying that all happens by itself.” — Nisargadatta

"Everything moves according to its nature. Every action creates a reaction which balances and neutralizes the action. Everything happens, but there is a continuous cancelling out, and in the end it is as if nothing happened.” — Nisargadatta

"In my world, love is the only law. I do not ask for love, I give it. Such is my nature.” — Nisargadatta

"The world you perceive is made of consciousness; what you call ‘matter' is consciousness itself. You are the space in which it moves, the time in which it lasts, the love that gives it life. Cut off imagination and attachment and what remains?” — Nisargadatta

"There is nothing wrong with the world. What is wrong is the way you look at it. It is your own imagination that misleads you. Without imagination there is no world. Your conviction that you are conscious of a world is the world.” — Nisargadatta

"It is one of the peculiarities of a realized one that he is not concerned with the future. Your concern with the future is due to fear of pain and desire for pleasure; to the realized one all is bliss—he is happy with whatever comes.” — Nisargadatta

"Freedom cannot be gained nor kept without will-to-freedom. You must strive for liberation; the least you can do is uncover and remove the obstacles diligently. If you want peace you must strive for it. You will not find peace simply by keeping quiet.” —Nisargadatta

“Remove the obstacles to growing and all your personal, social, economic and political problems will just dissolve…. Willingly sacrifice the imperfect to the perfect and there will be no more talk about good and evil.” —Nisargadatta

"The world’s problems were created by people like you, each full of their own desires and fears. Who can free you of your past, personal and social, except yourself? And how will you do it unless you see the urgent need of your first being free of cravings born of illusion?” — N.

"The situation decides what is needful or needless. Every situation is a challenge which demands the right response. When the response is right, the challenge is met and the problem ceases. If the response is wrong, the challenge is not met and the problem remains unsolved.” — N.

[Is there no wall between good and evil?] "There is no wall because there is no good and no evil. In every concrete situation, there is only the necessary and the unnecessary. The needful is right, the needless is wrong.” — Nisargadatta

"Insanity is universal. Sanity is rare. Yet there is hope, because the moment we perceive our insanity, we are on the way to sanity. This is the function of the guru—to make us see the madness of our daily living. Life makes you conscious, but the teacher makes you aware.” — N.

“You complain that people are abjectly poor. Yet you do not share your riches with them. You mind the war next door, but you hardly give it a thought when it is in some far off country. The shifting fortunes of your ego determine your values” — Nisargadatta

"All three states—waking, dreaming and sleeping—are subjective, personal, intimate. They all happen to and are contained within the little bubble in consciousness called ‘I.' The real world lies beyond the self.” — Nisargadatta