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When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.

Ramana Maharshi

One should remain as a witness to whatever happens, adopting the attitude, ‘Let whatever strange things that happens happen, let us see!’ This should be one’s practice. Nothing happens by accident in the divine scheme of things.
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Acceptance Adopt Attitude Divine Oneself Practice Strange
The Self is here and now, it is the only Reality. There is nothing else.
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Existence Oneself Reality
The state of self-realization, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been.
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Call Goal Reach Realize Simplicity State Yourself
The mind is only a bundle of thoughts. The thoughts have their root in the I-thought. Whoever investigates the True “I” enjoys the stillness of bliss.
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Bliss Enjoyment Investigate Mindset Thinking
Grace is not something outside or you.. In fact, your very desire for grace is due to grace that is already working in you.
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Desire Fact Grace Work Yourself
Discover your undying Self and be immortal and happy.
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Discover Happiness Immortal Oneself Spirituality Yourself
We dig a well and create a huge pit. The space in the pit or well has not been created by us. We have just removed the earth which was filling the space there. The space was there then and is also there now.
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Creation Earth Existence Remove Space Well
Let what comes come, let what goes go.
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Acceptance Let Go
See who is the subject; and this inquiry leads you to pure Consciousness beyond the subject.
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Beyond Consciousness Leadership Purity Subject Yourself
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
Meditation depends upon the strength of mind. It must be unceasing even when one is engaged in work. Particular time for it is meant for novices.
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Meditation Mindset Oneself Strength Time
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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Achievement Beyond Difference Goal Sea Sight Storm Yourself
The world is not outside you.
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One Liner Perspective World Yourself
The solution to your problem is to see who has it.
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Problem Search See Solution
The self is known to every one but not clearly. You always exist.
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Clear Existence Known Oneself Yourself
It is said that the I-activity is the root of all activities. From where the I-thought emerges, that in short is the heart.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Ego Heart Myself Thinking

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