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You are the Supreme Being, and yet thinking yourself to be separate from it, you strive to become united with it. What is stranger than this?

Ramana Maharshi

Have faith in God and in yourself; that will cure all. Hope for the best, expect the best, toil for the best and everything will come right for you in the end.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Best End Expectation Faith God Right Yourself
By whatever path you go, you will have to lose yourself in the one. Surrender is complete only when you reach the stage `Thou art all’ and `Thy will be done’.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Art Path Reach Stage Surrender Yourself
Whenever a thought arises, instead of trying even a little either to follow it up or to fulfil it, it would be better to first enquire, “To whom did this thought arise?”
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Follow Rise Thinking
Nearly all mankind is more or less unhappy because nearly all do not know the true Self. Real happiness abides in Self-knowledge alone. All else is fleeting. To know one’s Self is to be blissful always.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Bliss Kind Knowledge Man Reality
When one remains without thinking one understands another by means of the universal language of Silence.
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Language Oneself Silence Thinking Understand Universe
Peace can reign only where there is no disturbance, and disturbance is due to thoughts that arise in the mind.
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Disturbance Mindset Peace Thinking
Thoughts come and go. Feelings come and go. Find out what it is that remains.
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Feeling Finding Search Stay Thinking
There is no greater mystery than this, that we keep seeking reality though in fact we are reality.
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Fact Greatness Mystery Reality Seek
True silence is really endless speech.
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End Silence Talk True
It is said that the heart is in the microcosm just as the orb of the sun in the macrocosm. The mind in Sahasrara is like the disc of the moon.
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Heart Mindset Moon Science Sun
The ultimate truth is so simple; it is nothing more than being in one’s natural, original state.
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Natural Oneself Original Simplicity State Truth
For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.
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Bond Imagination Knowledge See
Apart from the body does the world exist? Has anyone seen the world without the body?
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Body Existence See World
We are in our Self. We are not in the world.
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Ourselves Perspective Philosophy World
Pleasure and pain are only aspects of the mind. Our essential nature is happiness.
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Aspect Happiness Mindset Nature Pain Pleasure
Call it by any name, God, Self, the Heart, or the Seat of Consciousness, it is all the same.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Call Consciousness God Name

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