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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

That alone is Real which exists by itself, which reveals itself by itself and which is eternal and unchanging.
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Alone Change Existence Forever Reality
Engage yourself in the living present. The future will take care of itself.
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Care Future Live Present Yourself
Let what comes come, let what goes go.
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Acceptance Let Go
You are all searching for the silence of the mountain. But you’re looking for something outside. This silence is accessible to you right now, inside the center of your own being.
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Access Existence Heart Mountain Search Silence Yourself
Seeing 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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God Himself Image Mental See
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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Existence Grace Necessary Oneself Operation Yourself
When your real, effortless, joyful grateful nature is realized, it will not be inconsistent with the ordinary activities of life.
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Activity Consistent Effort Gratitude Joy Life Nature Reality Realize
Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.
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Consciousness Limitation Mindset Perfection Yourself
Thoughts come and go. Feelings come and go. Find out what it is that remains.
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Feeling Finding Search Stay Thinking
There must be a subject to know the good and evil. That subject is the ego.
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Ego Evil Goodness Subject
The enemy hates the ego, which the seeker wants to kill; thus, like the anvil to the goldsmith, he is actually a friend.
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Ego Enemy Friendship Hate Kill Seek
Remain still, with the conviction that the Self shines as everything yet nothing, within, without, and everywhere.
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Oneself Remain Shine
All are seeing God always. But they do not know it.
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God Known See
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
Happiness is not to be sought in solitude or in busy centers. It is in the Self.
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Happiness Oneself Search Solitude
If you hold this feeling of ‘I’ long enough and strongly enough, the false ‘I’ will vanish leaving only the unbroken awareness of the real, immanent ‘I’, consciousness itself.
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Aware Consciousness Ego Enough Fake Feeling Hold 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.

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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.

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