Calmness is the criterion of spiritual progress. Plunge the purified mind into the Heart. Then the work is over.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThe world is not outside you.
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Grace is within you. If it were external, it would be useless.
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The activity affected by causes like fainting, sleep, excessive joy, grief, possession by spirits, fear etc goes to the heart, its own place.
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Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth.
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The deeply learned ones know the mind as the directly expressed meaning of the supreme knowledge. The heart is the meaning aimed at. The Supreme is none other than the heart.
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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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Peace is for the purification of one’s mind. Power is for the growth of the community. Having established the community with power, one should then establish supreme peace.
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Meditation applies the brakes to the mind.
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Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows ‘I am!’ No one can deny his own being.
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You are the Supreme Being, and yet thinking yourself to be separate from it, you strive to become united with it. What is stranger than this?
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The search “Who am I” ends in the annihilation of the illusory “I” and the Self which remains over will be as clear as a gooseberry in the palm of one’s hand.
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He who thinks he is the doer is also the sufferer.
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The macrocosm is in its entirety in the body. The body is in its entirety in the heart. Therefore heart is the summarised form of all the macrocosm.
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You are already That which you seek.
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The self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself, within yourself.
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All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.
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