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.
RAMANA MAHARSHIGood thoughts keep off bad thoughts. They must themselves disappear before the state of realization.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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Aim high, aim at the highest, and all lower aims are thereby achieved. It is looking below on the stormy sea of differences that makes you sink. Look up, beyond these and see the One Glorious Real, and you are saved.
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By constantly keep one’s attention on the Source, the ego is dissolved in that Source like a salt-doll in the sea.
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Call it by any name, God, Self, the Heart, or the Seat of Consciousness, it is all the same.
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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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Whatever is done lovingly, with righteous purity and with peace of mind, is a good action. Everything which is done with the stain of desire and with agitation filling the mind is classified as a bad action.
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The experience of silence alone is the real and perfect knowledge.
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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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You are already That which you seek.
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There must be a subject to know the good and evil. That subject is the ego.
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That alone is Real which exists by itself, which reveals itself by itself and which is eternal and unchanging.
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It is said that the I-activity is the root of all activities. From where the I-thought emerges, that in short is the heart.
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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 observe awareness steadily, this awareness itself becomes the Guru that will reveal the Truth.
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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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The end of all wisdom is love, love, love.
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Suffering is the way for Realization of God.
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When one remains without thinking one understands another by means of the universal language of Silence.
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Mind is a wonderful force inherent in the Self.
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The state we call realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything.
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See what helps you to keep away all other thoughts and adopt that method for your meditation.
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Concentration of the mind is in a way common to both Knowledge and Yoga. Yoga aims at union of the individual with the universal, the Reality. This Reality cannot be new. It must exist even now, and it does exist.
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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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An unawakened person sees only his mind, which is merely a reflection of the light of pure consciousness arising from the Heart.
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All activities and events that a body is to go through are determined at the time of conception.
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Grace is within you. Grace is your self. Grace is not something to be acquired from others. If it is external, it is useless. All that is necessary is to know its existence is in you. You are never out of its operation.
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There is no seeing. Seeing is only being.
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