Nearly all mankind is more or less unhappy because nearly all do not know the true Self. Real happiness abides in Self-knowledge alone. All else is fleeting. To know one’s Self is to be blissful always.
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.
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When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.
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All unhappiness is due to the ego. With it comes all your trouble. If you would deny the ego and scorch it by ignoring it you would be free.
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There is nothing new to gain. On the other hand a man must lose his ignorance. That is all.
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There is nothing so simple as being the Self. It requires no effort, no aid. One has to leave off the wrong identity and be in his (her) eternal, natural, inherent state.
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Apart from the body does the world exist? Has anyone seen the world without the body?
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Have faith in God and in yourself; that will cure all. Hope for the best, expect the best, toil for the best and everything will come right for you in the end.
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You know that you know nothing. Find out that knowledge.
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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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I see only what you see, but I notice what I see.
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The greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened.
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This perception of division between the seer and the object that is seen, is situated in the mind. For those remaining in the heart, the seer becomes one with the sight.
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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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Why should you trouble yourself about the future? You do not even properly know about the present. Take care of the present, the future will take care of itself.
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Of all the thoughts that rise in the mind, the thought ‘I’ is the first thought.
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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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