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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 Maharshi

There is neither Past nor Future. There is only the Present.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Future Past Present Science Time
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.
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Bliss Kind Knowledge Man Reality
One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.
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Happiness Open Realize Store
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.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Existence Grace Necessary Oneself Operation Yourself
Your duty is to Be, and not to be this or that.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Existence Presence Yourself
You are already That which you seek.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Inspirational One Liner Search Seek Yourself
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.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Access Existence Heart Mountain Search Silence Yourself
When the mind is left without anything to cling to, it becomes still.
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Calm Mindset Peace
Sense-perceptions can only be indirect knowledge, and not direct knowledge. Only one’s own awareness is direct knowledge.
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Aware Direct Knowledge Oneself
The source of the ego is God.
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Ego God One Liner Source
When one makes the mind stick to one thought, the mind becomes rock-steady and the energy is conserved.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Conserve Energy Mindset Thinking
Good thoughts keep off bad thoughts. They must themselves disappear before the state of realization.
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Goodness Realize State Thinking
When your real, effortless, joyful grateful nature is realized, it will not be inconsistent with the ordinary activities of life.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Activity Consistent Effort Gratitude Joy Life Nature Reality Realize
Doubts arise because of an absence of surrender.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Absence Doubt Rise Surrender
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.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Grace Heart Imagination Mindset Present Sky Source Yourself
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.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Destroy Ego Growth Plant Seek Yourself

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.

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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.

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