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There is no greater mystery than this, that we keep seeking reality though in fact we are reality.

Ramana Maharshi

The search “Who am I” ends in the annihilation of the illusory “I” and the Self which remains over will be as clear as a gooseberry in the palm of one’s hand.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

End Hands Illusion Oneself Remain Search
Grace is always present. You imagine it as something high in the sky, far away, something that has to descend. It is really inside you, in your heart. When the mind rests in its source, grace rushes forth, sprouting as from a spring within you.
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Grace Heart Imagination Mindset Present Sky Source Yourself
He that sees the Lord in the temple, the living body, by seeking Him within, can alone see Him, the Infinite, in the temple of the universe, having become the Endless Eye.
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Alone Body Eyes God Himself Infinite Live Temple Universe
There is no seeing. Seeing is only being.
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Existence Oneself See
Grace is within you. If it were external, it would be useless.
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Grace Heart Yourself
The Self is the heart, self-luminous. Illumination arises from the heart and reaches the brain, which is the seat of the mind. The world is seen with the mind; so you see the world by the reflected light of the Self.
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Heart Illuminate Light Mindset Oneself Reach Reflection Yourself
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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God Illuminate Mindset Oneself Shine
Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.
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Reform Social
No one succeeds without effort. Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.
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Effort Endurance Hard Work Perseverance Success
The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
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Body Death Spirit Touch Transcendence
If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.
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Light Seek Work Yourself
Take no notice of the ego and its activities, but see only the light behind.
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Activity Ego Light Notice See
To know one’s Self is to be blissful always.
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Bliss Happiness Oneself
Call it by any name, God, Self, the Heart, or the Seat of Consciousness, it is all the same.
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Call Consciousness God Name
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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Access Existence Heart Mountain Search Silence Yourself
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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Appearance Attention Light Object Pay Reveal
Realisation is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage.
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Faculty Realize Removal Skeleton
Once the current of awareness of the self is set afoot, it becomes everlasting and continuous by intensification.
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Aware Current Intense Oneself
Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth.
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Death Deep Forget Nature Reality Remember Spiritual Yourself
One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.
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Happiness Open Realize Store
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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Alone Body Form God Himself Man Possible Sense Worship
Good thoughts keep off bad thoughts. They must themselves disappear before the state of realization.
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Goodness Realize State Thinking
Dive deep into the chambers of your heart. Find out the real, infinite ‘I’. Rest there peacefully for ever and become identical with the Supreme Self.
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Finding Heart Infinite Myself Peace Universe
Surrender is to give oneself up to the original cause of one’s being.
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Existence Oneself Reason Surrender
The Self is here and now, it is the only Reality. There is nothing else.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Existence Oneself Reality
Does one require proof of one’s own being? Only remain aware of yourself and all else will be known.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Aware Evidence Known Remain Yourself
Whatever is done lovingly, with righteous purity and with peace of mind, is a good action. Everything which is done with the stain of desire and with agitation filling the mind is classified as a bad action.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Action Desire Love Mindset Peace Purity Right

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