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 MAHARSHITo know one’s Self is to be blissful always.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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See who is the doubter, who is the thinker. It is the ego. Hold it; the other thoughts will die away – the ego will be left pure. See the source from where the ego arises and abide in it. That is pure consciousness.
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Grace is ever present. All that is necessary is that you surrender to it.
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We are in our Self. We are not in the world.
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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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When the mind is left without anything to cling to, it becomes still.
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Silence is also conversation.
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Thoughts come and go. Feelings come and go. Find out what it is that remains.
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Without seeing the origin of light, the true form of one’s Self, the ordinary man sees by the mind different things and is deluded.
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For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.
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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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Whatever be the means adopted, you must at last return to the Self, so why not abide as the Self here and now?
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When your real, effortless, joyful grateful nature is realized, it will not be inconsistent with the ordinary activities of life.
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Beyond the belief that something can be lost, there is nothing to lose.
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There is no seeing. Seeing is only being.
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Nobody doubts that he exists, though he may doubt the existence of God. If he finds out the truth about himself and discovers his own source, this is all that is required.
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That which is not present in deep dreamless sleep is not real.
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The inquiry “who am I” turns the mind introvert and makes it calm.
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He who has realized the Self in the Heart has transcended the dualities and is never perplexed.
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When one remains without thinking one understands another by means of the universal language of Silence.
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See what helps you to keep away all other thoughts and adopt that method for your meditation.
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Remain still, with the conviction that the Self shines as everything yet nothing, within, without, and everywhere.
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If a person realises his position and stays in his own self, things that are to happen will happen. Things that are not to happen will not happen. The shakti that is in the world, is only one. All these troubles arise if we think that we are separate from that shakti.
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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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Realisation is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage.
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Whatever is destined not to happen will not happen, try as you may. Whatever is destined to happen will happen, do what you may to prevent it. This is certain. The best course, therefore, is to remain silent.
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Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.
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