The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThe state we call realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything.
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By constantly keep one’s attention on the Source, the ego is dissolved in that Source like a salt-doll in the sea.
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Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.
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Turn the mind inward and cease thinking of yourself as the body; thereby you will come to know that the self is ever happy. Neither grief nor misery is experienced in this state.
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Liberation exists- and you will never be liberated.
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Meditation is sticking to one thought. That single thought keeps away other thoughts; distraction of mind is a sign of its weakness; by constant meditation it gains strength.
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Food affects the mind. For the practice of any kind of yoga, vegetarianism is absolutely necessary since it makes the mind more pure and harmonious.
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What message is needed when heart speaks to heart?
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Once the current of awareness of the self is set afoot, it becomes everlasting and continuous by intensification.
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Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence.
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If you approach the ocean with a cup, you can only take away a cupful; if you approach it with a bucket you can take away a bucketful.
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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.
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There is neither Past nor Future. There is only the Present.
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To know one’s Self is to be blissful always.
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Love is verily the heart of all religions.
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He whose pure mind turns inward and searches whence does this ‘I’ arise, knows the Self and merges in You, the Lord, as a river into the sea.
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