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Pleasure and pain are only aspects of the mind. Our essential nature is happiness.

Ramana Maharshi

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Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.
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Silence is also conversation.
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I see only what you see, but I notice what I see.
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True silence is really endless speech.
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The experience of silence alone is the real and perfect knowledge.
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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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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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Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind.
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See who is the subject; and this inquiry leads you to pure Consciousness beyond the subject.
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Correcting oneself is correcting the whole world. The Sun is simply bright. It does not correct anyone. Because it shines, the whole world is full of light. Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.
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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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Your true nature is that of infinite spirit. The feeling of limitation is the work of the mind.
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The “I” thought is said to be the sum total of all thoughts. The source of the “I” thought has to be inquired into.
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Concentration of the mind is in a way common to both Knowledge and Yoga. Yoga aims at union of the individual with the universal, the Reality. This Reality cannot be new. It must exist even now, and it does exist.
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The activity affected by causes like fainting, sleep, excessive joy, grief, possession by spirits, fear etc goes to the heart, its own place.
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Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.
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Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence.
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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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Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth.
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Pleasure and pain are only aspects of the mind. Our essential nature is happiness.
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The self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself, within yourself.
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Whatever be the means adopted, you must at last return to the Self, so why not abide as the Self here and now?
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The world is illusory, Only Brahman is real, Brahman is the world
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To the extent we behave with humility, to that extent good will result.
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The man who has the sense of the body being himself cannot possibly worship God as formless; whatever worship he makes will be worship in form alone, not otherwise.
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He whose pure mind turns inward and searches whence does this ‘I’ arise, knows the Self and merges in You, the Lord, as a river into the sea.
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The Self alone exists. When you try to trace the ego, which is the basis of the perception of the world and everything else, you find the ego does not exist at all and neither does all this creation that you see.
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