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Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows ‘I am!’ No one can deny his own being.

Ramana Maharshi

In truth, you are spirit. The body has been projected by the mind, which itself originates from Spirit.
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Body Mindset Spirit Spirituality Truth
Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows ‘I am!’ No one can deny his own being.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Aware Consciousness Deep Existence Myself
The normal self is the mind. The mind is with limitations. But pure Consciousness is beyond limitations, and is reached by investigation into the “I.”
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Beyond Consciousness Investigation Limitation Mindset Myself Purity
Turn your vision inward and then the whole world will be full of the Supreme Spirit.
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Spirit Vision World Yourself
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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God Mindset Purity River Sea Search Yourself
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
Self-inquiry is the process and the goal also. ‘I am’ is the goal and the final reality. To hold to it with effort is self-inquiry. When spontaneous and natural it is realization.
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Discover Goal Natural Process Realize
The greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened.
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Enlightenment Greatness Obstacle
The grace of the Guru is like an ocean. If one comes with a cup he will only get a cupful. It is no use complaining of the niggardliness of the ocean. The bigger the vessel the more one will be able to carry. It is entirely up to him.
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Carry Grace Himself Ocean Vessel
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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Experience Grief Mindset State Thinking 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
He who thinks he is the doer is also the sufferer.
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Action Himself Suffering Thinking
If you go the way of your thoughts you will be carried away by them and you will find yourself in an endless maze.
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End Thinking Way Yourself
The ego’s phenomenal existence is transcended when you dive into the source from where the `I’-thought rises.
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Dive Ego Existence Myself Rise Source Transcendence
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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Kill Mindset Pretend Rise Thief Yourself
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.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Heart Mindset Moon Science Sun

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