Your true nature is that of infinite spirit. The feeling of limitation is the work of the mind.
RAMANA MAHARSHIAll that is required to realise the Self is to “Be Still.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that.
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Grace is always present. You imagine it as something high in the sky, far away, something that has to descend. It is really inside you, in your heart. When the mind rests in its source, grace rushes forth, sprouting as from a spring within you.
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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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All that exists is but the manifestation of the Supreme Being.
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You do not like to suffer yourself. How can you inflict suffering on others?
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Pure Consciousness, which is the Heart, includes all, and nothing is outside or apart from it. That is the ultimate Truth.
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Food affects the mind. For the practice of any kind of yoga, vegetarianism is absolutely necessary since it makes the mind more pure and harmonious.
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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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Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.
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We are always peace. To get rid of the idea that we are not peace is all that is required.
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In truth, you are spirit. The body has been projected by the mind, which itself originates from Spirit.
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When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.
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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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A higher power is leading you; be led by the same. It knows what to do and how to do it.
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Under whatever name or form we worship It, It leads us on to knowledge of the nameless, formless Absolute. Yet, to see one’s true Self in the Absolute, to subside into It and be one with “It, this is the true Knowledge of the Truth.
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