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.
RAMANA MAHARSHIAll that is required to realise the Self is to “Be Still.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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God’s grace consists in the fact that He shines in the heart of every one as the Self; that power of grace does not exclude any one, whether good or otherwise.
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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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The entire Universe is condensed in the body, and the entire body in the Heart. Thus the Heart is the nucleus of the whole Universe.
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The world is not outside you.
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Let knowledge be guessed by the sign of equality to all beings.
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There is neither creation nor destruction, neither destiny nor free will, neither path nor achievement. This is the final truth.
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The greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened.
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Correcting oneself is correcting the whole world. The Sun is simply bright. It does not correct anyone. Because it shines, the whole world is full of light. Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.
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The end of all wisdom is love, love, love.
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Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.
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Is it the world that says I am real, or is it you?
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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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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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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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We are in our Self. We are not in the world.
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