Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard’s rustling, a breath, a breeze, a moment’s glance — it is little that makes the best happiness. Still!
What happened to me? Listen! Did time perhaps fly away? Do I not fall? Did I not fall — listen! — into the well of eternity? What is happening to me? Still! I have been stung, alas — in the heart? In the heart! Oh break, break, heart, after such happiness, after such as sting. How? Did not the world become perfect just now? Round and ripe? Oh, the golden round ring — where may it fly? Shall I run after it? Quick! Still!
(trans. W. Kaufmann)
The tangle which is entirely below the level of consciousness can
be set right by being with yourself, the ‘I am’, by watching
yourself in your daily life with alert interest with the intention to
understand rather than to judge, in full acceptance of whatever may
emerge, because it is there, you encourage the deep to come to the
surface and enrich your life and consciousness with its captive
energies. This is the great work of awareness; it removes obstacles
and releases energies by understanding the nature of life and mind.
Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother
of intelligence.
(Sri Nisargdatta Maharaj, I AM THAT)