The explorers seek happiness in finding curiosities, discovering new lands and undergoing risks in adventures. They are thrilling. But where is pleasure found? Only within. Pleasure is not to be sought in the external world.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThe activity affected by causes like fainting, sleep, excessive joy, grief, possession by spirits, fear etc goes to the heart, its own place.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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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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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?”
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Once the current of awareness of the self is set afoot, it becomes everlasting and continuous by intensification.
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The “I” thought is said to be the sum total of all thoughts. The source of the “I” thought has to be inquired into.
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Liberation exists- and you will never be liberated.
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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.
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The self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself, within yourself.
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What comes will also go. What always is will alone remain.
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The fact is that you are not the body. The Self does not move but the world moves in it. You are only what you are.
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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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You are already That which you seek.
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Instead of indulging in mere speculation, devote yourself here and now to the search for the Truth that is ever within you.
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As you are, so is the world.
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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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The very fact that we wish for liberation shows that freedom from all bondage is our real nature. It is not to be freshly acquired. All that is necessary is to get rid of the false notion that we are bound.
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