Nisargadatta Maharaj - Quotes about 'Peace' - from the book 'I AM THAT'

Seek a clear mind and a clean heart. 
All you need is to keep quietly alert, 
enquiring into the real nature of yourself. 
This is the only way to peace.

You can have for the asking  all the peace you want.
You must ask with an undivided heart  and live an integrated life.
Detach yourself from all that makes your mind restless. 
Renounce all that disturbs [your mind's] peace. 
If you want peace, deserve peace.
Those only deserve peace, who don't disturb peace.

Real peace cannot be disturbed.

There is no such thing as peace of mind. 
Mind means disturbance;  restlessness itself is mind.

It is not your real being (peace) that is restless, 
but its reflection in the mind appears restless  
because the mind is restless.

The Self does not need to be put to rest.  It is peace itself, not at peace. 
Only the mind is restless.  All it knows is restlessness.


The body has its urges and the mind has its pains and pleasures. 
Awareness is unattached and unshaken, peaceful and alert. 
Meditate on [awareness itself] as your true being 
and try to be [awareness itself] in your daily life, 
and you shall realize [awareness] in its fullness.


It is not your real being that is restless, but its reflection 
in the mind appears restless  because the mind is restless. 
It is just like the reflection of the moon in the water stirred by the wind.
The wind of desire stirs the mind and the 'me', which is but 
a reflection of the Self in the mind, appears changeful. 
But these ideas of movement, of restlessness, of pleasure and pain 
are all in the mind.  The Self stands beyond the mind, 
aware, but unconcerned.

You are the Self, here and now.  Leave the mind alone, 
stand aware and unconcerned  and you will realize 
that to stand alert but detached, watching events come and go, 
is an aspect of your real nature.

When you understand that names and shapes 
are hollow shells without any content whatsoever, 
and what is real is nameless and formless, 
pure energy of life and light of consciousness, 
you will be at peace - immersed in the deep silence of reality.

To exist means to be something, a thing, a feeling, a thought, an idea. 
All existence is particular.  Only being is universal, 
in the sense that every being is compatible with every other being. 
Existences clash, being - never. 
Existence means becoming, change, birth and death and birth again, 
while in being there is silent peace.


What has been attained may be lost again. 
Only when you realize the true peace, the peace you have never lost, 
that peace will remain with you, for it was never away. 
Instead of searching for what you do not have, 
find out what is it that you have never lost. 
That which is there before the beginning and after the ending of everything
That immovable state.

There is peace - deep, immense, unshakeable. 
Events are registered in memory, but are of no importance. 
I am hardly aware of them.

The perceiver of the world, is he prior to the world, 
or does he come into being along with the world?
Unless you know the correct answer, you will not find peace.


I simply followed his instruction 
which was to focus the mind on pure being 'I am', and stay in it. 
I used to sit for hours on end, with, nothing but the 'I am' in my mind 
and soon peace and joy and a deep all-embracing love 
became my normal state.

Once you realize your own unassailable being, 
you will be at peace.

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 get peace just by keeping quiet.

It is what you are inwardly that matters. 
Your inner peace and joy you have to earn. 
It is much more difficult than earning money. 
No university can teach you to be yourself. 
The only way to learn is by practice. 
Right away begin to be yourself. 
Discard all you are not and go ever deeper. 
Just as a man digging a well discards what is not water, 
until he reaches the water-bearing strata, 
so must you discard what is not your own, 
till nothing is left which you can disown. 
You will find that what is left is nothing which the mind can hook on to.
You are not even a human being.  You just are - a point of
awareness, co-extensive with time and space and beyond both,
the ultimate cause, itself uncaused. 
If you ask me: 'Who are you?'  
my answer would be: 'Nothing in particular. Yet, I am.'

The innermost light, shining peacefully and timelessly in the heart, 
is the real Guru.  All others merely show the way [to that].

Words and questions come from the mind and hold you there. 
To go beyond the mind, you must be silent and quiet.
Peace and silence, silence and peace - this is the way beyond. 
Stop asking questions.

That which cannot change, remains. 
The great peace, the deep silence, the hidden beauty of reality, remain. 
While it cannot be conveyed through words, 
it is waiting for you to experience for yourself.

You cannot see the true unless you are at peace. 
A quiet mind is essential for right perception, 
which again is required for self-realization.

The heart of things is at peace.

I am infinite peace and silence 
in which all that appears - disappears,
as if nothing appears.