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The state of self-realization, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been.

Ramana Maharshi

The macrocosm is in its entirety in the body. The body is in its entirety in the heart. Therefore heart is the summarised form of all the macrocosm.
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Body Heart Science Summary
Doubts arise because of an absence of surrender.
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Absence Doubt Rise Surrender
Bliss is a thing which is always there and is not something which comes and goes. That which comes and goes is a creation of the mind.
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Bliss Creation Illusion Mindset Thinking
The enemy hates the ego, which the seeker wants to kill; thus, like the anvil to the goldsmith, he is actually a friend.
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Ego Enemy Friendship Hate Kill Seek
Wanting to reform the world without discovering one’s true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes.
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Avoid Deep Discover Pain Shoes Simplicity Walk World
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
Non-action is unceasing activity. The sage is characterized by eternal and intense activity. His stillness is like the apparent stillness of a fast rotating gyroscope.
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Action Activity Character Fast Forever Himself Sage
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 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
I Am’ is the name of God, God is none other than the Self.
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God Myself Name Philosophy
By constantly keep one’s attention on the Source, the ego is dissolved in that Source like a salt-doll in the sea.
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Attention Ego Sea Source
One should remain as a witness to whatever happens, adopting the attitude, ‘Let whatever strange things that happens happen, let us see!’ This should be one’s practice. Nothing happens by accident in the divine scheme of things.
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Acceptance Adopt Attitude Divine Oneself Practice Strange
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
When the mind is left without anything to cling to, it becomes still.
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Calm Mindset Peace
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
Let what comes come, let what goes go.
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Acceptance Let Go

The state of self-realization, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been.

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The state of self-realization, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been.

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