Without seeing the origin of light, the true form of one’s Self, the ordinary man sees by the mind different things and is deluded.
RAMANA MAHARSHIIf you hold this feeling of ‘I’ long enough and strongly enough, the false ‘I’ will vanish leaving only the unbroken awareness of the real, immanent ‘I’, consciousness itself.
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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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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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There is nothing so simple as being the Self. It requires no effort, no aid. One has to leave off the wrong identity and be in his (her) eternal, natural, inherent state.
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Unless one is happy, one cannot bestow happiness on others.
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Meditation depends upon the strength of mind. It must be unceasing even when one is engaged in work. Particular time for it is meant for novices.
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There is neither Past nor Future. There is only the Present.
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True silence is really endless speech.
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The ego’s phenomenal existence is transcended when you dive into the source from where the `I’-thought rises.
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We are so engrossed with the objects, or appearances revealed by the light, that we pay no attention to the light.
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There is no Truth. There is only the truth within each moment.
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When one makes the mind stick to one thought, the mind becomes rock-steady and the energy is conserved.
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There is no greater mystery than this, that we keep seeking reality though in fact we are reality.
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Realization consists of getting rid of the false idea that one is not realized.
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Silence is also conversation.
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The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
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The source of the ego is God.
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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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There is nothing wrong with God’s creation. Mystery and Suffering only exist in the mind.
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Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence.
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Is it the world that says I am real, or is it you?
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When one remains without thinking one understands another by means of the universal language of Silence.
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The inquiry “who am I” turns the mind introvert and makes it calm.
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All are seeing God always. But they do not know it.
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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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Your duty is to be, and not to be this or that. I Am That I Am sums up the whole truth; the method is summarized in Be Still.
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To know one’s Self is to be blissful always.
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