Ramana Maharshi on grace
Ramana Maharshi233 quotes“Grace is within you. Grace is your self. Grace is not something to be acquired from others. If it is external, it is useless. All that is necessary is to know its existence is in you. You are never out of its operation.”
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The thing to do is to concentrate on the seer and not on the seen, not on the objects, but on the Light which reveals them.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi To know one’s Self is to be blissful always.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi The activity affected by causes like fainting, sleep, excessive joy, grief, possession by spirits, fear etc goes to the heart, its own place.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi Food affects the mind. For the practice of any kind of yoga, vegetarianism is absolutely necessary since it makes the mind more pure and harmonious.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi The state of self-realization, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi True silence is really endless speech.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi In truth, you are spirit. The body has been projected by the mind, which itself originates from Spirit.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi We dig a well and create a huge pit. The space in the pit or well has not been created by us. We have just removed the earth which was filling the space there. The space was there then and is also there now.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi The world is illusory, Only Brahman is real, Brahman is the world
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi See who is the doubter, who is the thinker. It is the ego. Hold it; the other thoughts will die away – the ego will be left pure. See the source from where the ego arises and abide in it. That is pure consciousness.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi If you make the thief the policeman there will be lots of investigation but no arrests will ever be made.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi The inquiry “who am I” turns the mind introvert and makes it calm.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi It is said that the I-activity is the root of all activities. From where the I-thought emerges, that in short is the heart.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi 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.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi
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Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe.
Abraham Joshua HeschelAbraham Joshua Heschel The winds of God’s grace are always blowing, it is for us to raise our sails.
RamakrishnaRamakrishna The breeze of grace is always blowing; set your sail to catch that breeze.
RamakrishnaRamakrishna Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
John DrydenJohn Dryden Faith is to believe what you do not yet see: the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
John DrydenJohn Dryden The winds of grace blow all the time. All we need to do is set our sails.
RamakrishnaRamakrishna The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.
Jonathan EdwardsJonathan Edwards Through selfless work, love of God grows in the heart. Then through his grace one realize him in course of time. God can be seen. One can talk to him as I am talking to you.
RamakrishnaRamakrishna
