You keep on insisting that my inner state is moulded by outer events. It is just not so. Whatever happens, I remain. At the root of my being is pure awareness, a speck of intense light. This speck, by its very nature, radiates and creates pictures in space and events in time – effortlessly and spontaneously.
— Nisargadatta Maharaj, from the classic ‘I am That’, p 180
You have to ask yourself the question ‘Who am I ?’ This investigation will lead in the end to the discovery of something within you which is behind the mind. Solve that great problem, and you will solve all other problems thereby. Man’s real nature is happiness. Happiness is inborn in the Self. His search for happiness is an unconscious search for his true Self. The true Self is imperishable, therefore when a man finds it, he finds a happiness which does not come to an end.
— Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharishi, ‘Thus Spake Ramana’, p 24
Sri Ramana Maharishi & Nisargadatta Maharaj 