Happiness is relative and is better called pleasure or satisfaction.
RAMANA MAHARSHIGrace is within you. If it were external, it would be useless.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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There is no greater mystery than this, that we keep seeking reality though in fact we are reality.
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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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Beyond the belief that something can be lost, there is nothing to lose.
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Unless one is happy, one cannot bestow happiness on others.
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All that exists is but the manifestation of the Supreme Being.
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The place where even the slightest trace of the ‘I’ does not exist, alone is Self.
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Meditation is sticking to one thought. That single thought keeps away other thoughts; distraction of mind is a sign of its weakness; by constant meditation it gains strength.
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Calmness is the criterion of spiritual progress. Plunge the purified mind into the Heart. Then the work is over.
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The main factor in meditation is to keep the mind active in its own pursuit without taking in external impressions or thinking of other matters.
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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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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.
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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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Remain still, with the conviction that the Self shines as everything yet nothing, within, without, and everywhere.
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Reality is simply the loss of ego. Destroy the ego by seeking its identity. Because the ego is no entity it will automatically vanish and reality will shine forth by itself.
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See who is the subject; and this inquiry leads you to pure Consciousness beyond the subject.
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