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Remain still, with the conviction that the Self shines as everything yet nothing, within, without, and everywhere.

Ramana Maharshi

True silence is really endless speech.
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End Silence Talk True
When one makes the mind stick to one thought, the mind becomes rock-steady and the energy is conserved.
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Conserve Energy Mindset Thinking
All are seeing God always. But they do not know it.
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God Known See
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.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Book Meditation Reading Realize Yourself
The solution to your problem is to see who has it.
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Problem Search See Solution
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
Sense-perceptions can only be indirect knowledge, and not direct knowledge. Only one’s own awareness is direct knowledge.
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Aware Direct Knowledge Oneself
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
Peace can reign only where there is no disturbance, and disturbance is due to thoughts that arise in the mind.
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Disturbance Mindset Peace Thinking
If you hold this feeling of ‘I’ long enough and strongly enough, the false ‘I’ will vanish leaving only the unbroken awareness of the real, immanent ‘I’, consciousness itself.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Aware Consciousness Ego Enough Fake Feeling Hold Yourself
If the mind falls asleep, awaken it. Then if it starts wandering, make it quiet. If you reach the state where there is neither sleep nor movement of mind, stay still in that, the natural (real) state.
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Awake Fall Mindset Quiet Reach Reality Sleep Start Wander Yourself
Doubts arise because of an absence of surrender.
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Absence Doubt Rise Surrender
Grace is within you. If it were external, it would be useless.
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Grace Heart Yourself
Realization consists of getting rid of the false idea that one is not realized.
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Fake Idea Oneself Realize
One should remain as a witness to whatever happens, adopting the attitude, ‘Let whatever strange things that happens happen, let us see!’ This should be one’s practice. Nothing happens by accident in the divine scheme of things.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Acceptance Adopt Attitude Divine Oneself Practice Strange
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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Adopt Oneself Return

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