The ultimate truth is so simple; it is nothing more than being in one’s natural, original state.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThe 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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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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Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.
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Knowing the Self, God is known.
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The entire Universe is condensed in the body, and the entire body in the Heart. Thus the Heart is the nucleus of the whole Universe.
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There is nothing wrong with God’s creation. Mystery and Suffering only exist in the mind.
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Suffering is the way for Realization of God.
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Non-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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There is nothing so simple as being the Self. It requires no effort, no aid. One has to leave off the wrong identity and be in his (her) eternal, natural, inherent state.
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Peace is the inner nature of humankind. If you find it within yourself, you will then find it everywhere.
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Self-inquiry is the process and the goal also. ‘I am’ is the goal and the final reality. To hold to it with effort is self-inquiry. When spontaneous and natural it is realization.
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You are already That which you seek.
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Good thoughts keep off bad thoughts. They must themselves disappear before the state of realization.
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Your duty is to be, and not to be this or that. I Am That I Am sums up the whole truth; the method is summarized in Be Still.
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Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence.
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