When we turn the mind inwards, God manifests as the inner consciousness.
RAMANA MAHARSHINon-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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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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It is within your competence to think and thus to get bound or to cease thinking and thus be free.
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Your own Self-realization is the greatest service you can render the world.
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Take no notice of the ego and its activities, but see only the light behind.
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Sense-perceptions can only be indirect knowledge, and not direct knowledge. Only one’s own awareness is direct knowledge.
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You are the Supreme Being, and yet thinking yourself to be separate from it, you strive to become united with it. What is stranger than this?
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An unawakened person sees only his mind, which is merely a reflection of the light of pure consciousness arising from the Heart.
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A higher power is leading you; be led by the same. It knows what to do and how to do it.
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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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The normal self is the mind. The mind is with limitations. But pure Consciousness is beyond limitations, and is reached by investigation into the “I.”
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The world is not outside you.
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Peace can reign only where there is no disturbance, and disturbance is due to thoughts that arise in the mind.
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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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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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Unless one is happy, one cannot bestow happiness on others.
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