Whatever be the means adopted, you must at last return to the Self, so why not abide as the Self here and now?
RAMANA MAHARSHIYou need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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Silence is also conversation.
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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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All are seeing God always. But they do not know it.
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Grace is ever present. All that is necessary is that you surrender to it.
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If you make the thief the policeman there will be lots of investigation but no arrests will ever be made.
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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.
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Happiness is relative and is better called pleasure or satisfaction.
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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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If the ego rises, all else will also rise; if it subsides, all else will also subside.
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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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The Self alone exists. When you try to trace the ego, which is the basis of the perception of the world and everything else, you find the ego does not exist at all and neither does all this creation that you see.
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The more you prune a plant, the more it grows. So too the more you seek to annihilate the ego, the more it will increase. You should seek the root of the ego and destroy it.
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Then all this earth shines like one house.
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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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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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