Nisargadatta Maharaj

I first read Nisargadatta Maharaj‘s “I Am That” in my late twenties and his simple non-dual perspective and insistence on self-enquiry (like Ramana Maharshi) as a path to liberation have been an inspiration ever since.

I find this particular quote from that work very powerful:

“Love is not selective, desire is selective. In love there are no strangers. When the centre of selfishness is no longer, all desires for pleasure and fear of pain cease; one is no longer interested in being happy; beyond happiness there is pure intensity, inexhaustible energy, the ecstasy of giving from a perennial source.” 

More quotes from I Am That can be found here.