The world is not outside you.
RAMANA MAHARSHIWe are so engrossed with the objects, or appearances revealed by the light, that we pay no attention to the light.
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Doubts arise because of an absence of surrender.
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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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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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I see only what you see, but I notice what I see.
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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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If you go the way of your thoughts you will be carried away by them and you will find yourself in an endless maze.
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As you are, so is the world.
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Self-inquiry is the process and the goal also. ‘I am’ is the goal and the final reality. To hold to it with effort is self-inquiry. When spontaneous and natural it is realization.
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Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that.
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What comes will also go. What always is will alone remain.
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You have to ask yourself the question ‘Who am I?’ This investigation will lead in the end to the discovery of something within you which is behind the mind. Solve that great problem and you will solve all other problems.
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Why should you trouble yourself about the future? You do not even properly know about the present. Take care of the present, the future will take care of itself.
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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.
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No one succeeds without effort. Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.
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I Am’ is the name of God, God is none other than the Self.
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