The inquiry “who am I” turns the mind introvert and makes it calm.
RAMANA MAHARSHIAll unhappiness is due to the ego. With it comes all your trouble. If you would deny the ego and scorch it by ignoring it you would be free.
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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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The place where even the slightest trace of the ‘I’ does not exist, alone is Self.
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Non-action is unceasing activity. The sage is characterized by eternal and intense activity. His stillness is like the apparent stillness of a fast rotating gyroscope.
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If you observe awareness steadily, this awareness itself becomes the Guru that will reveal the Truth.
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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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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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Liberation exists- and you will never be liberated.
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Silence is truth. Silence is bliss. Silence is peace. And hence Silence is the Self.
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The pure mind is itself Brahman; it therefore follows that Brahman is not other than the mind of the sage.
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All activities and events that a body is to go through are determined at the time of conception.
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Nobody doubts that he exists, though he may doubt the existence of God. If he finds out the truth about himself and discovers his own source, this is all that is required.
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Knowing the Self, God is known.
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Meditation helps concentration of the mind. Then the mind is free from thoughts and is in the meditated form.
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Engage yourself in the living present. The future will take care of itself.
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