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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.

Ramana Maharshi

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 MAHARSHI

Desire Fact Grace Work Yourself
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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Effort Forever Herself Identity Natural Simplicity State Wrong
Of all the thoughts that rise in the mind, the thought ‘I’ is the first thought.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Mindset Myself Rise Thinking
Liberation exists- and you will never be liberated.
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Existence Liberty Yourself
All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.
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Centre Ego Negative Oneself Quality Realize
Then all this earth shines like one house.
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Earth Home Oneself Shine
To know one’s Self is to be blissful always.
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Bliss Happiness Oneself
Meditation helps concentration of the mind. Then the mind is free from thoughts and is in the meditated form.
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Focus Form Help Meditation Mindset
You do not like to suffer yourself. How can you inflict suffering on others?
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Suffering Yourself
Meditation applies the brakes to the mind.
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Meditation Mindset One Liner
Peace is the inner nature of humankind. If you find it within yourself, you will then find it everywhere.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Finding Human Inner Kind Nature Peace Yourself
To ask the mind to kill itself is like making the thief the policeman. He will go with you and pretend to catch the thief, but nothing will be gained. So you must turn inward and see where the mind rises from, and then it will cease to exist.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Kill Mindset Pretend Rise Thief Yourself
Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth.
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Death Deep Forget Nature Reality Remember Spiritual Yourself
The thing to do is to concentrate on the seer and not on the seen, not on the objects, but on the Light which reveals them.
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Focus Light Object Reveal
The “I” thought is said to be the sum total of all thoughts. The source of the “I” thought has to be inquired into.
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Ego Myself Source Thinking
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.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Captive Desire Fact Fake Freedom Liberty Nature Necessary Prison Reality

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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