Happiness is relative and is better called pleasure or satisfaction.
RAMANA MAHARSHIYou are already That which you seek.
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Reality is simply the loss of ego. Destroy the ego by seeking its identity. Because the ego is no entity it will automatically vanish and reality will shine forth by itself.
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No one succeeds without effort. Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.
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Beyond the belief that something can be lost, there is nothing to lose.
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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.
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If you approach the ocean with a cup, you can only take away a cupful; if you approach it with a bucket you can take away a bucketful.
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Realization consists of getting rid of the false idea that one is not realized.
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God illumines the mind and shines within it. One cannot know God by means of the mind. One can but turn the mind inwards and merge it in God.
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The experience of silence alone is the real and perfect knowledge.
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There is no Truth. There is only the truth within each moment.
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The source of the ego is God.
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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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There is neither creation nor destruction, neither destiny nor free will, neither path nor achievement. This is the final truth.
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If you go the way of your thoughts you will be carried away by them and you will find yourself in an endless maze.
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All that is required to realise the Self is to “Be Still.
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The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.
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Engage yourself in the living present. The future will take care of itself.
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Aim high, aim at the highest, and all lower aims are thereby achieved. It is looking below on the stormy sea of differences that makes you sink. Look up, beyond these and see the One Glorious Real, and you are saved.
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Discover your undying Self and be immortal and happy.
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Love is verily the heart of all religions.
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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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Why should you trouble yourself about the future? You do not even properly know about the present. Take care of the present, the future will take care of itself.
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Peace is your natural state. It is the mind that obstructs the natural state.
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What message is needed when heart speaks to heart?
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Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth.
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The place where even the slightest trace of the ‘I’ does not exist, alone is Self.
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A realized one sends out waves of spiritual influence in his aura, which draw many people towards him. Yet he may sit in a cave and maintain complete silence.
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