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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

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Take no notice of the ego and its activities, but see only the light behind.
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Activity Ego Light Notice See
Our identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are.
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Body Chief Failure Identify Mindset Ourselves Reason
The place where even the slightest trace of the ‘I’ does not exist, alone is Self.
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Ego Existence Oneself Place
The more you prune a plant, the more it grows. So too the more you seek to annihilate the ego, the more it will increase. You should seek the root of the ego and destroy it.
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Destroy Ego Growth Plant Seek Yourself
Doubts arise because of an absence of surrender.
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Absence Doubt Rise Surrender
True silence is really endless speech.
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End Silence Talk True
The pure mind is itself Brahman; it therefore follows that Brahman is not other than the mind of the sage.
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Mindset Sage Universe
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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Myself Responsibility Summary Truth
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.
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Focus Light Object Reveal
When your real, effortless, joyful grateful nature is realized, it will not be inconsistent with the ordinary activities of life.
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Activity Consistent Effort Gratitude Joy Life Nature Reality Realize
The end of all wisdom is love, love, love.
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End Love One Liner Wisdom
Surrender is to give oneself up to the original cause of one’s being.
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Existence Oneself Reason Surrender
All activities and events that a body is to go through are determined at the time of conception.
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Activity Body Concept Determination Event Time
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.
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End Hands Illusion Oneself Remain Search
Pleasure and pain are only aspects of the mind. Our essential nature is happiness.
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Aspect Happiness Mindset Nature Pain Pleasure
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

Existence Separate Strange Strive Thinking Unity Yourself

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