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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.

Ramana Maharshi

When one makes the mind stick to one thought, the mind becomes rock-steady and the energy is conserved.
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Conserve Energy Mindset Thinking
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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Light Seek Work Yourself
The grace of the Guru is like an ocean. If one comes with a cup he will only get a cupful. It is no use complaining of the niggardliness of the ocean. The bigger the vessel the more one will be able to carry. It is entirely up to him.
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Carry Grace Himself Ocean Vessel
Thoughts come and go. Feelings come and go. Find out what it is that remains.
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Feeling Finding Search Stay Thinking
Then all this earth shines like one house.
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Earth Home Oneself Shine
If you approach the ocean with a cup, you can only take away a cupful; if you approach it with a bucket you can take away a bucketful.
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Ocean Vessel Yourself
Without seeing the origin of light, the true form of one’s Self, the ordinary man sees by the mind different things and is deluded.
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Different Light Mindset Ordinary Origin See Sight True
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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Belief Leadership Power Trust Yourself
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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Beyond Consciousness Investigation Limitation Mindset Myself Purity
For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.
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Bond Imagination Knowledge See
The state of self-realization, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been.
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Call Goal Reach Realize Simplicity State Yourself
Misery does not exist in reality but only in mere imagination.
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Existence Imagination Misery Reality
You may go on reading any number of books on Meditation. They can only tell you ‘Realize the Self’. The Self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself in yourself.
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Book Meditation Reading Realize Yourself
Correcting oneself is correcting the whole world. The Sun is simply bright. It does not correct anyone. Because it shines, the whole world is full of light. Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.
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Correct Inspirational Light Simplicity Sun Transformation World Yourself
The inquiry “who am I” turns the mind introvert and makes it calm.
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Calm Mindset Philosophy Question
Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind.
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Atom Finding Mindset Structure

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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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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