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The self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself, within yourself.

Ramana Maharshi

Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind.
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Atom Finding Mindset Structure
Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence.
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Powerful Silence Talk Worth
Of all the thoughts that rise in the mind, the thought ‘I’ is the first thought.
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Mindset Myself Rise Thinking
The search “Who am I” ends in the annihilation of the illusory “I” and the Self which remains over will be as clear as a gooseberry in the palm of one’s hand.
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End Hands Illusion Oneself Remain Search
The very fact that we wish for liberation shows that freedom from all bondage is our real nature. It is not to be freshly acquired. All that is necessary is to get rid of the false notion that we are bound.
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Captive Desire Fact Fake Freedom Liberty Nature Necessary Prison Reality
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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Karma Oneself Truth Understand
Suffering is the way for Realization of God.
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God Oneself Realize Suffering Way
The state we call realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything.
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Existence Realize State
A realized one sends out waves of spiritual influence in his aura, which draw many people towards him. Yet he may sit in a cave and maintain complete silence.
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Aura Complete Himself Influence People Realize Silence Spiritual
All are seeing God always. But they do not know it.
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God Known See
Bliss is a thing which is always there and is not something which comes and goes. That which comes and goes is a creation of the mind.
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Bliss Creation Illusion Mindset Thinking
Whenever a thought arises, instead of trying even a little either to follow it up or to fulfil it, it would be better to first enquire, “To whom did this thought arise?”
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Follow Rise Thinking
He that sees the Lord in the temple, the living body, by seeking Him within, can alone see Him, the Infinite, in the temple of the universe, having become the Endless Eye.
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Alone Body Eyes God Himself Infinite Live Temple Universe
Surrender is to give oneself up to the original cause of one’s being.
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Existence Oneself Reason Surrender
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
Realization consists of getting rid of the false idea that one is not realized.
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Fake Idea Oneself Realize

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