Take no notice of the ego and its activities, but see only the light behind.
RAMANA MAHARSHIWhat message is needed when heart speaks to heart?
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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That which is not present in deep dreamless sleep is not real.
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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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Peace is for the purification of one’s mind. Power is for the growth of the community. Having established the community with power, one should then establish supreme peace.
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The more you prune a plant, the more it grows. So too the more you seek to annihilate the ego, the more it will increase. You should seek the root of the ego and destroy it.
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I Am’ is the name of God, God is none other than the Self.
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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.
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Thoughts come and go. Feelings come and go. Find out what it is that remains.
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That is the ego which rises and sinks periodically. But you exist always. That which lies beyond the ego is consciousness – the Self.
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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.
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He whose pure mind turns inward and searches whence does this ‘I’ arise, knows the Self and merges in You, the Lord, as a river into the sea.
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One should remain as a witness to whatever happens, adopting the attitude, ‘Let whatever strange things that happens happen, let us see!’ This should be one’s practice. Nothing happens by accident in the divine scheme of things.
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When the mind is left without anything to cling to, it becomes still.
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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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When your real, effortless, joyful grateful nature is realized, it will not be inconsistent with the ordinary activities of life.
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Peace is the inner nature of humankind. If you find it within yourself, you will then find it everywhere.
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