It is within your competence to think and thus to get bound or to cease thinking and thus be free.
RAMANA MAHARSHISilence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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It is said that the I-activity is the root of all activities. From where the I-thought emerges, that in short is the heart.
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There is neither creation nor destruction, neither destiny nor free will, neither path nor achievement. This is the final truth.
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Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that.
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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.
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There is no greater mystery than this, that we keep seeking reality though in fact we are reality.
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All that one gives to others one gives to one’s self. If this truth is understood, who will not give to others?
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Silence is never-ending speech. In silence one is in intimate contact with the surroundings. Language is only a medium for communicating one’s thoughts to another. Silence is ever speaking.
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Silence is truth. Silence is bliss. Silence is peace. And hence Silence is the Self.
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Peace is the inner nature of humankind. If you find it within yourself, you will then find it everywhere.
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Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind.
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The normal self is the mind. The mind is with limitations. But pure Consciousness is beyond limitations, and is reached by investigation into the “I.”
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Reality is simply the loss of ego. Destroy the ego by seeking its identity. Because the ego is no entity it will automatically vanish and reality will shine forth by itself.
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The deeply learned ones know the mind as the directly expressed meaning of the supreme knowledge. The heart is the meaning aimed at. The Supreme is none other than the heart.
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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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You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.
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