God illumines the mind and shines within it. One cannot know God by means of the mind. One can but turn the mind inwards and merge it in God.
RAMANA MAHARSHIYou do not like to suffer yourself. How can you inflict suffering on others?
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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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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 truth. Silence is bliss. Silence is peace. And hence Silence is the Self.
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Whatever is done lovingly, with righteous purity and with peace of mind, is a good action. Everything which is done with the stain of desire and with agitation filling the mind is classified as a bad action.
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A realized one sends out waves of spiritual influence in his aura, which draw many people towards him. Yet he may sit in a cave and maintain complete silence.
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There is no Truth. There is only the truth within each moment.
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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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God’s grace consists in the fact that He shines in the heart of every one as the Self; that power of grace does not exclude any one, whether good or otherwise.
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To the extent we behave with humility, to that extent good will result.
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Aim high, aim at the highest, and all lower aims are thereby achieved. It is looking below on the stormy sea of differences that makes you sink. Look up, beyond these and see the One Glorious Real, and you are saved.
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Whatever is destined not to happen will not happen, try as you may. Whatever is destined to happen will happen, do what you may to prevent it. This is certain. The best course, therefore, is to remain silent.
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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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You are already That which you seek.
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Once the current of awareness of the self is set afoot, it becomes everlasting and continuous by intensification.
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The Self is the heart, self-luminous. Illumination arises from the heart and reaches the brain, which is the seat of the mind. The world is seen with the mind; so you see the world by the reflected light of the Self.
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