Grace is not something outside or you.. In fact, your very desire for grace is due to grace that is already working in you.
RAMANA MAHARSHIYour duty is to Be, and not to be this or that.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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Take no notice of the ego and its activities, but see only the light behind.
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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.
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We are in our Self. We are not in the world.
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The greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened.
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There are no impediments to meditation. The very thought of such obstacles is the greatest impediment.
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Realization is to get rid of the delusion that you have not realized.
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He that sees the Lord in the temple, the living body, by seeking Him within, can alone see Him, the Infinite, in the temple of the universe, having become the Endless Eye.
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Then all this earth shines like one house.
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Instead of indulging in mere speculation, devote yourself here and now to the search for the Truth that is ever within you.
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See who is the doubter, who is the thinker. It is the ego. Hold it; the other thoughts will die away – the ego will be left pure. See the source from where the ego arises and abide in it. That is pure consciousness.
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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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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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What comes will also go. What always is will alone remain.
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Your true nature is that of infinite spirit. The feeling of limitation is the work of 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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