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All that one gives to others one gives to one’s self. If this truth is understood, who will not give to others?

Ramana Maharshi

If you approach the ocean with a cup, you can only take away a cupful; if you approach it with a bucket you can take away a bucketful.
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Ocean Vessel Yourself
The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.
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Degree Focus Freedom Measurement Progress Spiritual
The fact is that you are not the body. The Self does not move but the world moves in it. You are only what you are.
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Body Fact Move Oneself World Yourself
The enemy hates the ego, which the seeker wants to kill; thus, like the anvil to the goldsmith, he is actually a friend.
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Ego Enemy Friendship Hate Kill Seek
If there is anything besides the Self there is reason to fear? Who sees the second? First, the ego arises and sees objects as external. If the ego does not rise, the Self alone exists and there is no second.
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Existence Fear Object Reason
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
If you observe awareness steadily, this awareness itself becomes the Guru that will reveal the Truth.
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Aware Observation Reveal Truth Willing
Wanting to reform the world without discovering one’s true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes.
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Avoid Deep Discover Pain Shoes Simplicity Walk World
Take no notice of the ego and its activities, but see only the light behind.
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Activity Ego Light Notice See
Calmness is the criterion of spiritual progress. Plunge the purified mind into the Heart. Then the work is over.
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Calm Heart Progress Spirituality Work
Discover your undying Self and be immortal and happy.
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Discover Happiness Immortal Oneself Spirituality Yourself
The state we call realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything.
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Existence Realize State
You have to ask yourself the question ‘Who am I?’ This investigation will lead in the end to the discovery of something within you which is behind the mind. Solve that great problem and you will solve all other problems.
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Discover Investigation Leadership Problem Question Solve Yourself
For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.
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Bond Imagination Knowledge See
You do not like to suffer yourself. How can you inflict suffering on others?
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Suffering Yourself
You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.
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Aspiration Present State Thinking Yourself

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