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.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThe main factor in meditation is to keep the mind active in its own pursuit without taking in external impressions or thinking of other matters.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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There must be a subject to know the good and evil. That subject is the ego.
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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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You are already That which you seek.
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Grace is within you. Grace is your self. Grace is not something to be acquired from others. If it is external, it is useless. All that is necessary is to know its existence is in you. You are never out of its operation.
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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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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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There are no impediments to meditation. The very thought of such obstacles is the greatest impediment.
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You are the Supreme Being, and yet thinking yourself to be separate from it, you strive to become united with it. What is stranger than this?
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Realisation is our nature. It is nothing new to be gained. What is new cannot be eternal. Therefore there is no need for doubting if one would lose or gain the Self.
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Happiness is not to be sought in solitude or in busy centers. It is in the Self.
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The self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself, within yourself.
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Guru, God and Self are One.
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When one remains without thinking one understands another by means of the universal language of Silence.
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Meditation depends upon the strength of mind. It must be unceasing even when one is engaged in work. Particular time for it is meant for novices.
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You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.
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