Peace is for the purification of one’s mind. Power is for the growth of the community. Having established the community with power, one should then establish supreme peace.
RAMANA MAHARSHISeeing God without seeing the Self, one sees only mental image. Only he who has seen Himself has seen God, since he has lost individuality, and now sees nothing but God.
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Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.
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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.
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The deeply learned ones know the mind as the directly expressed meaning of the supreme knowledge. The heart is the meaning aimed at. The Supreme is none other than the heart.
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Engage yourself in the living present. The future will take care of itself.
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Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows ‘I am!’ No one can deny his own being.
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There is no greater mystery than this, that we keep seeking reality though in fact we are reality.
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Pleasure and pain are only aspects of the mind. Our essential nature is happiness.
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Knowing the Self, God is known.
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Under whatever name or form we worship It, It leads us on to knowledge of the nameless, formless Absolute. Yet, to see one’s true Self in the Absolute, to subside into It and be one with “It, this is the true Knowledge of the Truth.
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The world is not outside you.
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Call it by any name, God, Self, the Heart, or the Seat of Consciousness, it is all the same.
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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.
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Realisation is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage.
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All activities and events that a body is to go through are determined at the time of conception.
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Let knowledge be guessed by the sign of equality to all beings.
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