“When [the mind] becomes pure, one … realizes: “God alone is the Doer, and I am His instrument.”
~ Ramakrishna

“So long as the sense of being the doer remains, desire does also. Therefore the ego remains. But once this goes the Self shines forth in its purity. The sense of being the doer is the bondage, not the actions themselves.”
~ Ramana Maharshi

“When you realize you’re not the doer everything gets done in a better way, for you stop identifying with the object and the subject. You become free of all attachments. As long as you believe that you’re responsible for anything that takes place in this world, you have a problem. You will have to go through that experience over and over and over again, until you realize that you have absolutely nothing to do with anything. You are pure consciousness. Your real Self is absolute reality. I tell you, you have nothing to do with this world.”
~ Robert Adams

“Carry out all the activities in the objective world, but do not claim authorship for what is being done. As you begin to realize that all the activities are happening through you and that you are not doing anything, then gradually all your desires like the attachment for husband or wife, or greed for money, etc. will dwindle. All of that will go away once the sense of ‘doership’ disappears, because at that stage there will be no personality left to take credit for anything.”
~ Nisargadatta

“You choose a course of action for the future and assume that it is you who are doing the choosing. Actually, it is the Supreme Power that is giving you the strength to choose. Don’t be foolish and think that it is you who are doing the choosing. That power is there all the time, making you do all the things that you do. Instead of trying to organise your future, look at the source of that power and be aware of how it does everything. It makes the body move; it makes the mind move. All the things that you imagine you do by yourself are done by this Supreme Power.”
~ H.W.L. Poonja, “Papaji”

“The illumined soul
Whose heart is Brahman’s heart
Thinks always: ‘I am doing nothing,’
No matter what he sees,
Hears, touches, smells, eats.”
~ Bhagavad Gita

Thanks to Glenn R Danforth