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.
RAMANA MAHARSHIGrace is within you. If it were external, it would be useless.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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Happiness is not to be sought in solitude or in busy centers. It is 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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Silence is also conversation.
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The life of action need not be renounced. If you meditate for an hour or two every day you can then carry on with your duties. If you meditate in the right manner then the current of mind induced will continue to flow even in the midst of your work.
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Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.
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The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
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Mind is but a poor reflection of the radiant Heart.
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Thoughts come and go. Feelings come and go. Find out what it is that remains.
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He whose pure mind turns inward and searches whence does this ‘I’ arise, knows the Self and merges in You, the Lord, as a river into the sea.
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Is it the world that says I am real, or is it you?
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Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind.
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As you are, so is the world.
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Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.
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Meditation helps concentration of the mind. Then the mind is free from thoughts and is in the meditated form.
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The source of the ego is God.
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Grace is ever present. All that is necessary is that you surrender to it.
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You may go on reading any number of books on Meditation. They can only tell you ‘Realize the Self’. The Self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself in yourself.
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The state of self-realization, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been.
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The fact is that you are not the body. The Self does not move but the world moves in it. You are only what you are.
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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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Turn your vision inward and then the whole world will be full of the Supreme Spirit.
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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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If one’s mind has peace, the whole world will appear peaceful.
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That which is not present in deep dreamless sleep is not real.
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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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One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.
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