Without the grace of the Self, there is no success. Because of faith in yourself you get it. You may worship God, but don’t consider God as separate. The knowledge ‘I am’ is within you with that conviction you worship. One who meditates on the knowledge, ‘I am’, everything in the realm of consciousness becomes clear to him. He lives without telling it, hence from this place, you carry the conviction about yourself that you know the knowledge ‘I am’ is God, there can be no other gain. There are those who without knowing themselves, start preaching.

-Nisargadatta Maharaj