Meditation is sticking to one thought. That single thought keeps away other thoughts; distraction of mind is a sign of its weakness; by constant meditation it gains strength.
RAMANA MAHARSHISilence 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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Meditation applies the brakes to the mind.
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Liberation exists- and you will never be liberated.
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Let what comes come, let what goes go.
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Is it the world that says I am real, or is it you?
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If you make the thief the policeman there will be lots of investigation but no arrests will ever be made.
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Doubts arise because of an absence of surrender.
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Take no notice of the ego and its activities, but see only the light behind.
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Actions themselves form no bondage. Bondage is only the false belief, “I am the do-er.”
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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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God illumines the mind and shines within it. One cannot know God by means of the mind. One can but turn the mind inwards and merge it in God.
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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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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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The ultimate truth is so simple; it is nothing more than being in one’s natural, original state.
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Peace is your natural state. It is the mind that obstructs the natural state.
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We are in our Self. We are not in the world.
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