“Be fully aware of your own being and you will be in bliss consciously. Because you take your mind off yourself and make it dwell on what you are not, you lose your sense of well-being, of being well. (…) True happiness is spontaneous and effortless. (..)”

—  Nisargadatta Maharaj

Bliss and happiness
Source: "I am That." P.96.

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