Peace can reign only where there is no disturbance, and disturbance is due to thoughts that arise in the mind.
RAMANA MAHARSHISurrender is to give oneself up to the original cause of one’s being.
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Sense-perceptions can only be indirect knowledge, and not direct knowledge. Only one’s own awareness is direct knowledge.
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If one’s mind has peace, the whole world will appear peaceful.
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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 inquiry “who am I” turns the mind introvert and makes it calm.
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Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the atom. That which is behind the mind, namely the individual soul, is subtler than the mind.
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He who thinks he is the doer is also the sufferer.
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All are seeing God always. But they do not know it.
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Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.
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Peace is your natural state. It is the mind that obstructs the natural state.
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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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Under whatever name or form we worship It, It leads us on to knowledge of the nameless, formless Absolute. Yet, to see one’s true Self in the Absolute, to subside into It and be one with “It, this is the true Knowledge of the Truth.
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The self is known to every one but not clearly. You always exist.
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You are all searching for the silence of the mountain. But you’re looking for something outside. This silence is accessible to you right now, inside the center of your own being.
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Thoughts come and go. Feelings come and go. Find out what it is that remains.
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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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