When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.
RAMANA MAHARSHITurn your vision inward and then the whole world will be full of the Supreme Spirit.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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Remain still, with the conviction that the Self shines as everything yet nothing, within, without, and everywhere.
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To know one’s Self is to be blissful always.
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It is within your competence to think and thus to get bound or to cease thinking and thus be free.
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Because truth is exceedingly subtle and serene, the bliss of the Self can manifest only in a mind rendered subtle and steady by assiduous meditation.
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One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.
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The greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened.
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Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.
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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.
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Doubts arise because of an absence of surrender.
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Happiness is relative and is better called pleasure or satisfaction.
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A higher power is leading you; be led by the same. It knows what to do and how to do it.
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If the ego rises, all else will also rise; if it subsides, all else will also subside.
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Whatever be the means adopted, you must at last return to the Self, so why not abide as the Self here and now?
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Food affects the mind. For the practice of any kind of yoga, vegetarianism is absolutely necessary since it makes the mind more pure and harmonious.
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The macrocosm is in its entirety in the body. The body is in its entirety in the heart. Therefore heart is the summarised form of all the macrocosm.
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