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.
RAMANA MAHARSHIEngage yourself in the living present. The future will take care of itself.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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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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Unless one is happy, one cannot bestow happiness on others.
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Truth burns up all karma and frees you from all births.
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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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If the ego rises, all else will also rise; if it subsides, all else will also subside.
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The ultimate truth is so simple. It is nothing more than being in the pristine state. This is all that needs to be said. Only mature minds can grasp the simple truth in all its nakedness.
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When the mind, one-pointed and fully focused, knows the supreme silence in the Heart, this is true learning.
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Suffering is the way for Realization of God.
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The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
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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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You do not like to suffer yourself. How can you inflict suffering on others?
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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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Realization is to get rid of the delusion that you have not realized.
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Calmness is the criterion of spiritual progress. Plunge the purified mind into the Heart. Then the work is over.
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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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