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The Self alone exists. When you try to trace the ego, which is the basis of the perception of the world and everything else, you find the ego does not exist at all and neither does all this creation that you see.

Ramana Maharshi

If the ego rises, all else will also rise; if it subsides, all else will also subside.
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Ego Rise Spirituality Wisdom
Truth burns up all karma and frees you from all births.
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Born Burn Freedom Karma Truth Yourself
Peace is the inner nature of humankind. If you find it within yourself, you will then find it everywhere.
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Finding Human Inner Kind Nature Peace 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
You may go on reading any number of books on Meditation. They can only tell you ‘Realize the Self’. The Self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself in yourself.
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Book Meditation Reading Realize Yourself
We are so engrossed with the objects, or appearances revealed by the light, that we pay no attention to the light.
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Appearance Attention Light Object Pay Reveal
The explorers seek happiness in finding curiosities, discovering new lands and undergoing risks in adventures. They are thrilling. But where is pleasure found? Only within. Pleasure is not to be sought in the external world.
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Adventure Explorer Happiness Pleasure Risk Seek Thrilling World
It is said that the heart is in the microcosm just as the orb of the sun in the macrocosm. The mind in Sahasrara is like the disc of the moon.
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Heart Mindset Moon Science Sun
Because truth is exceedingly subtle and serene, the bliss of the Self can manifest only in a mind rendered subtle and steady by assiduous meditation.
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Bliss Manifestation Meditation Mindset Subtle Truth
That is the ego which rises and sinks periodically. But you exist always. That which lies beyond the ego is consciousness – the Self.
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Consciousness Ego Existence Lying Oneself Rise
The self is known to every one but not clearly. You always exist.
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Clear Existence Known Oneself Yourself
The entire Universe is condensed in the body, and the entire body in the Heart. Thus the Heart is the nucleus of the whole Universe.
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Body Heart Perspective Universe
Have faith in God and in yourself; that will cure all. Hope for the best, expect the best, toil for the best and everything will come right for you in the end.
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Best End Expectation Faith God Right Yourself
The more you prune a plant, the more it grows. So too the more you seek to annihilate the ego, the more it will increase. You should seek the root of the ego and destroy it.
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Destroy Ego Growth Plant Seek Yourself
Without seeing the origin of light, the true form of one’s Self, the ordinary man sees by the mind different things and is deluded.
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Different Light Mindset Ordinary Origin See Sight True
When your real, effortless, joyful grateful nature is realized, it will not be inconsistent with the ordinary activities of life.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Activity Consistent Effort Gratitude Joy Life Nature Reality Realize

The Self alone exists. When you try to trace the ego, which is the basis of the perception of the world and everything else, you find the ego does not exist at all and neither does all this creation that you see.

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The Self alone exists. When you try to trace the ego, which is the basis of the perception of the world and everything else, you find the ego does not exist at all and neither does all this creation that you see.

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