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There is neither creation nor destruction, neither destiny nor free will, neither path nor achievement. This is the final truth.

Ramana Maharshi

Reality is simply the loss of ego. Destroy the ego by seeking its identity. Because the ego is no entity it will automatically vanish and reality will shine forth by itself.
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Ego Loss Reality Shine Simplicity
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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Appearance Attention Light Object Pay Reveal
We are in our Self. We are not in the world.
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Ourselves Perspective Philosophy World
If one’s mind has peace, the whole world will appear peaceful.
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Appearance Mindset Peace World
The enemy hates the ego, which the seeker wants to kill; thus, like the anvil to the goldsmith, he is actually a friend.
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Ego Enemy Friendship Hate Kill Seek
It is said that the heart is in the microcosm just as the orb of the sun in the macrocosm. The mind in Sahasrara is like the disc of the moon.
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Heart Mindset Moon Science Sun
You are already That which you seek.
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Inspirational One Liner Search Seek Yourself
The state of self-realization, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been.
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Call Goal Reach Realize Simplicity State Yourself
The ultimate truth is so simple. It is nothing more than being in the pristine state. This is all that needs to be said. Only mature minds can grasp the simple truth in all its nakedness.
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Grasp Mindset Naked Natural Simplicity State Truth
Self-inquiry is the process and the goal also. ‘I am’ is the goal and the final reality. To hold to it with effort is self-inquiry. When spontaneous and natural it is realization.
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Discover Goal Natural Process Realize
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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God Himself Image Mental See
Realization consists of getting rid of the false idea that one is not realized.
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Fake Idea Oneself Realize
Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.
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Light Self Love Transformation World Yourself
Under whatever name or form we worship It, It leads us on to knowledge of the nameless, formless Absolute. Yet, to see one’s true Self in the Absolute, to subside into It and be one with “It, this is the true Knowledge of the Truth.
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Form Knowledge Name Oneself See Truth Worship
Nobody doubts that he exists, though he may doubt the existence of God. If he finds out the truth about himself and discovers his own source, this is all that is required.
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Discover Doubt Existence Finding God Himself Source
The greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened.
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Enlightenment Greatness Obstacle

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