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 MAHARSHIYou do not like to suffer yourself. How can you inflict suffering on others?
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Meditation is sticking to one thought. That single thought keeps away other thoughts; distraction of mind is a sign of its weakness; by constant meditation it gains strength.
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Good thoughts keep off bad thoughts. They must themselves disappear before the state of realization.
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The very fact that we wish for liberation shows that freedom from all bondage is our real nature. It is not to be freshly acquired. All that is necessary is to get rid of the false notion that we are bound.
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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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The main factor in meditation is to keep the mind active in its own pursuit without taking in external impressions or thinking of other matters.
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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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The pure mind is itself Brahman; it therefore follows that Brahman is not other than the mind of the sage.
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Turn your vision inward and then the whole world will be full of the Supreme Spirit.
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When the mind is left without anything to cling to, it becomes still.
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Truth burns up all karma and frees you from all births.
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You are all searching for the silence of the mountain. But you’re looking for something outside. This silence is accessible to you right now, inside the center of your own being.
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Turn the mind inward and cease thinking of yourself as the body; thereby you will come to know that the self is ever happy. Neither grief nor misery is experienced in this state.
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Then all this earth shines like one house.
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The deeply learned ones know the mind as the directly expressed meaning of the supreme knowledge. The heart is the meaning aimed at. The Supreme is none other than the heart.
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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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