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Of all the thoughts that rise in the mind, the thought ‘I’ is the first thought.

Ramana Maharshi

If you approach the ocean with a cup, you can only take away a cupful; if you approach it with a bucket you can take away a bucketful.
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Ocean Vessel Yourself
Dive deep into the chambers of your heart. Find out the real, infinite ‘I’. Rest there peacefully for ever and become identical with the Supreme Self.
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Finding Heart Infinite Myself Peace Universe
What comes will also go. What always is will alone remain.
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Alone Deep Let Go Philosophy Remain Stay Wisdom
The experience of silence alone is the real and perfect knowledge.
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Experience Perfection Reality Silence
There is nothing so simple as being the Self. It requires no effort, no aid. One has to leave off the wrong identity and be in his (her) eternal, natural, inherent state.
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Effort Forever Herself Identity Natural Simplicity State Wrong
Unless one is happy, one cannot bestow happiness on others.
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Happiness Oneself
Let knowledge be guessed by the sign of equality to all beings.
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Equality Guess Knowledge
The inquiry “who am I” turns the mind introvert and makes it calm.
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Calm Mindset Philosophy Question
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
The Seeker himself becomes the knower. The thing to be known is already there. There is nothing to be known afresh. More-over there are no two things. There is only the seer, the knower.
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Known Seek Wisdom Yourself
Let what comes come, let what goes go.
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Acceptance Let Go
We dig a well and create a huge pit. The space in the pit or well has not been created by us. We have just removed the earth which was filling the space there. The space was there then and is also there now.
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Creation Earth Existence Remove Space Well
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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Access Existence Heart Mountain Search Silence Yourself
Instead of indulging in mere speculation, devote yourself here and now to the search for the Truth that is ever within you.
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Devotion Search Truth Yourself
The more you prune a plant, the more it grows. So too the more you seek to annihilate the ego, the more it will increase. You should seek the root of the ego and destroy it.
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Destroy Ego Growth Plant Seek Yourself
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

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