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.
RAMANA MAHARSHISilence is truth. Silence is bliss. Silence is peace. And hence Silence is the Self.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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Take no notice of the ego and its activities, but see only the light behind.
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You know that you know nothing. Find out that knowledge.
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Thoughts come and go. Feelings come and go. Find out what it is that remains.
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There is no seeing. Seeing is only being.
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The seat of Realization is within and the seeker cannot find it as an object outside him. That seat is bliss and is the core of all beings. Hence it is called the Heart.
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The end of all wisdom is love, love, love.
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The Self is the heart, self-luminous. Illumination arises from the heart and reaches the brain, which is the seat of the mind. The world is seen with the mind; so you see the world by the reflected light of the Self.
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Calmness is the criterion of spiritual progress. Plunge the purified mind into the Heart. Then the work is over.
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The pure mind is itself Brahman; it therefore follows that Brahman is not other than the mind of the sage.
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If you make the thief the policeman there will be lots of investigation but no arrests will ever be made.
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That which is not present in deep dreamless sleep is not real.
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See who is the doubter, who is the thinker. It is the ego. Hold it; the other thoughts will die away – the ego will be left pure. See the source from where the ego arises and abide in it. That is pure consciousness.
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Discover your undying Self and be immortal and happy.
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The self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself, within yourself.
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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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