Your duty is to Be, and not to be this or that.
RAMANA MAHARSHI
RAMANA MAHARSHI
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Remain still, with the conviction that the Self shines as everything yet nothing, within, without, and everywhere.
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Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi All that one gives to others one gives to one’s self. If this truth is understood, who will not give to others?
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Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi The world is not outside you.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows ‘I am!’ No one can deny his own being.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi Is it the world that says I am real, or is it you?
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Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi The macrocosm is in its entirety in the body. The body is in its entirety in the heart. Therefore heart is the summarised form of all the macrocosm.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi Your own Self-realization is the greatest service you can render the world.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi 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.
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