The explorers seek happiness in finding curiosities, discovering new lands and undergoing risks in adventures. They are thrilling. But where is pleasure found? Only within. Pleasure is not to be sought in the external world.
RAMANA MAHARSHIIf the mind falls asleep, awaken it. Then if it starts wandering, make it quiet. If you reach the state where there is neither sleep nor movement of mind, stay still in that, the natural (real) state.
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Silence is also conversation.
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See who is the doubter, who is the thinker. It is the ego. Hold it; the other thoughts will die away – the ego will be left pure. See the source from where the ego arises and abide in it. That is pure consciousness.
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All activities and events that a body is to go through are determined at the time of conception.
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Grace is within you. Grace is your self. Grace is not something to be acquired from others. If it is external, it is useless. All that is necessary is to know its existence is in you. You are never out of its operation.
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The solution to your problem is to see who has it.
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A higher power is leading you; be led by the same. It knows what to do and how to do it.
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Mind is but a poor reflection of the radiant Heart.
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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.
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Unless one is happy, one cannot bestow happiness on others.
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Our identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are.
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Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.
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The deeply learned ones know the mind as the directly expressed meaning of the supreme knowledge. The heart is the meaning aimed at. The Supreme is none other than the heart.
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It is within your competence to think and thus to get bound or to cease thinking and thus be free.
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He who thinks he is the doer is also the sufferer.
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Guru, God and Self are One.
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