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Meditation applies the brakes to the mind.

Ramana Maharshi

If you make the thief the policeman there will be lots of investigation but no arrests will ever be made.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Arrest Manifestation Thief Yourself
Grace is always present. You imagine it as something high in the sky, far away, something that has to descend. It is really inside you, in your heart. When the mind rests in its source, grace rushes forth, sprouting as from a spring within you.
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Grace Heart Imagination Mindset Present Sky Source Yourself
To know one’s Self is to be blissful always.
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Bliss Happiness Oneself
Have faith in God and in yourself; that will cure all. Hope for the best, expect the best, toil for the best and everything will come right for you in the end.
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Best End Expectation Faith God Right Yourself
The self is known to every one but not clearly. You always exist.
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Clear Existence Known Oneself Yourself
In the Heart’s cavity, the sole Brahman as an ever-persisting ‘I’ shines direct in the form of the Self. Into the Heart enter thyself, with mind in search or in deeper plunge. Or by restraint of life-movement be firmly poised in the Self.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Direct Heart Life Mindset Movement Search Shine Universe
Instead of indulging in mere speculation, devote yourself here and now to the search for the Truth that is ever within you.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Devotion Search Truth Yourself
Silence is truth. Silence is bliss. Silence is peace. And hence Silence is the Self.
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Bliss Peace Silence Truth
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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Discover Goal Natural Process Realize
Concentration of the mind is in a way common to both Knowledge and Yoga. Yoga aims at union of the individual with the universal, the Reality. This Reality cannot be new. It must exist even now, and it does exist.
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Existence Focus Goal Knowledge Mindset Philosophy Reality Universe
The end of all wisdom is love, love, love.
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End Love One Liner Wisdom
The life of action need not be renounced. If you meditate for an hour or two every day you can then carry on with your duties. If you meditate in the right manner then the current of mind induced will continue to flow even in the midst of your work.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Action Carry Day Flow Life Meditation Need Responsibility Work Yourself
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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Captive Desire Fact Fake Freedom Liberty Nature Necessary Prison Reality
You do not like to suffer yourself. How can you inflict suffering on others?
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Suffering Yourself
Nearly all mankind is more or less unhappy because nearly all do not know the true Self. Real happiness abides in Self-knowledge alone. All else is fleeting. To know one’s Self is to be blissful always.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Bliss Kind Knowledge Man Reality
There is nothing wrong with God’s creation. Mystery and Suffering only exist in the mind.
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Creation Existence God Mindset Mystery Suffering Wrong

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