Non-action is unceasing activity. The sage is characterized by eternal and intense activity. His stillness is like the apparent stillness of a fast rotating gyroscope.
RAMANA MAHARSHIMind is a wonderful force inherent in the Self.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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Self-inquiry is the process and the goal also. ‘I am’ is the goal and the final reality. To hold to it with effort is self-inquiry. When spontaneous and natural it is realization.
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No one succeeds without effort. Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.
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Silence is also conversation.
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He that sees the Lord in the temple, the living body, by seeking Him within, can alone see Him, the Infinite, in the temple of the universe, having become the Endless Eye.
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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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Truth burns up all karma and frees you from all births.
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The source of the ego is God.
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I see only what you see, but I notice what I see.
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Your duty is to be, and not to be this or that. I Am That I Am sums up the whole truth; the method is summarized in Be Still.
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The entire Universe is condensed in the body, and the entire body in the Heart. Thus the Heart is the nucleus of the whole Universe.
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Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth.
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Happiness is relative and is better called pleasure or satisfaction.
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Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.
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Beyond the belief that something can be lost, there is nothing to lose.
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Without seeing the origin of light, the true form of one’s Self, the ordinary man sees by the mind different things and is deluded.
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