The enemy hates the ego, which the seeker wants to kill; thus, like the anvil to the goldsmith, he is actually a friend.
RAMANA MAHARSHINobody 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.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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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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If you approach the ocean with a cup, you can only take away a cupful; if you approach it with a bucket you can take away a bucketful.
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If you hold this feeling of ‘I’ long enough and strongly enough, the false ‘I’ will vanish leaving only the unbroken awareness of the real, immanent ‘I’, consciousness itself.
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What comes will also go. What always is will alone remain.
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I see only what you see, but I notice what I see.
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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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The Self is here and now, it is the only Reality. There is nothing else.
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If you go the way of your thoughts you will be carried away by them and you will find yourself in an endless maze.
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Without knowing the Knower, all the knowledge that one gathers cannot be valid.
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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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All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.
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Grace is within you. If it were external, it would be useless.
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Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind.
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One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.
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Turn your vision inward and then the whole world will be full of the Supreme Spirit.
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