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.
RAMANA MAHARSHIRealization consists of getting rid of the false idea that one is not realized.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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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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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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It is within your competence to think and thus to get bound or to cease thinking and thus be free.
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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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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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Thoughts come and go. Feelings come and go. Find out what it is that remains.
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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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Your duty is to Be, and not to be this or that.
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The ultimate truth is so simple. It is nothing more than being in the pristine state. This is all that needs to be said. Only mature minds can grasp the simple truth in all its nakedness.
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Whatever be the means adopted, you must at last return to the Self, so why not abide as the Self here and now?
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There is no Truth. There is only the truth within each moment.
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The end of all wisdom is love, love, love.
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When one remains without thinking one understands another by means of the universal language of Silence.
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The self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself, within yourself.
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The world is not outside you.
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