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Grace is within you. If it were external, it would be useless.

Ramana Maharshi

You do not like to suffer yourself. How can you inflict suffering on others?
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Suffering Yourself
The “I” thought is said to be the sum total of all thoughts. The source of the “I” thought has to be inquired into.
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Ego Myself Source Thinking
Apart from the body does the world exist? Has anyone seen the world without the body?
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Body Existence See World
Correcting oneself is correcting the whole world. The Sun is simply bright. It does not correct anyone. Because it shines, the whole world is full of light. Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.
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Correct Inspirational Light Simplicity Sun Transformation World Yourself
The man who has the sense of the body being himself cannot possibly worship God as formless; whatever worship he makes will be worship in form alone, not otherwise.
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Alone Body Form God Himself Man Possible Sense Worship
You are all searching for the silence of the mountain. But you’re looking for something outside. This silence is accessible to you right now, inside the center of your own being.
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Access Existence Heart Mountain Search Silence Yourself
Of all the thoughts that rise in the mind, the thought ‘I’ is the first thought.
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Mindset Myself Rise Thinking
To ask the mind to kill itself is like making the thief the policeman. He will go with you and pretend to catch the thief, but nothing will be gained. So you must turn inward and see where the mind rises from, and then it will cease to exist.
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Kill Mindset Pretend Rise Thief Yourself
All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.
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Centre Ego Negative Oneself Quality Realize
The solution to your problem is to see who has it.
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Problem Search See Solution
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
Our identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are.
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Body Chief Failure Identify Mindset Ourselves Reason
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.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

End Hands Illusion Oneself Remain Search
When the mind, one-pointed and fully focused, knows the supreme silence in the Heart, this is true learning.
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Focus Heart Learning Mindset Point Silence True
There is a state when words cease and silence prevails.
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Failure Silence State Word
Does one require proof of one’s own being? Only remain aware of yourself and all else will be known.
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Aware Evidence Known Remain Yourself

Grace is within you. If it were external, it would be useless.

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