“Discard all traditional standards. Leave them to the hypocrites. Only what liberates you from desire and fear and wrong ideas is good. As long as you worry about sin and virtue you will have no peace. (…)”

—  Nisargadatta Maharaj

Liberation
Source: "I am That." P.71

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