Silence is never-ending speech. In silence one is in intimate contact with the surroundings. Language is only a medium for communicating one’s thoughts to another. Silence is ever speaking.
RAMANA MAHARSHIPeace can reign only where there is no disturbance, and disturbance is due to thoughts that arise in the mind.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.
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We are so engrossed with the objects, or appearances revealed by the light, that we pay no attention to the light.
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Apart from the body does the world exist? Has anyone seen the world without the body?
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You and I are the same. What I have done is surely possible for all. You are the Self now and can never be anything else. Throw your worries to the wind, turn within and find Peace.
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Having set one’s family in consonance with the community, he should make his family prosperous to ensure the prosperity of the community.
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When one makes the mind stick to one thought, the mind becomes rock-steady and the energy is conserved.
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The “I” thought is said to be the sum total of all thoughts. The source of the “I” thought has to be inquired into.
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Peace is your natural state. It is the mind that obstructs the natural state.
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Seeing God without seeing the Self, one sees only mental image. Only he who has seen Himself has seen God, since he has lost individuality, and now sees nothing but God.
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Your duty is to be, and not to be this or that. I Am That I Am sums up the whole truth; the method is summarized in Be Still.
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The source of the ego is God.
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The thing to do is to concentrate on the seer and not on the seen, not on the objects, but on the Light which reveals them.
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You are all searching for the silence of the mountain. But you’re looking for something outside. This silence is accessible to you right now, inside the center of your own being.
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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.
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Truth burns up all karma and frees you from all births.
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