Peace can reign only where there is no disturbance, and disturbance is due to thoughts that arise in the mind.
RAMANA MAHARSHISelf-reform automatically brings about social reform.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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If one’s mind has peace, the whole world will appear peaceful.
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Good thoughts keep off bad thoughts. They must themselves disappear before the state of realization.
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There is nothing so simple as being the Self. It requires no effort, no aid. One has to leave off the wrong identity and be in his (her) eternal, natural, inherent state.
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Instead of indulging in mere speculation, devote yourself here and now to the search for the Truth that is ever within you.
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Pleasure and pain are only aspects of the mind. Our essential nature is happiness.
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There is nothing new to gain. On the other hand a man must lose his ignorance. That is all.
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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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Your own Self-realization is the greatest service you can render the world.
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Let knowledge be guessed by the sign of equality to all beings.
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That alone is Real which exists by itself, which reveals itself by itself and which is eternal and unchanging.
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The inquiry “who am I” turns the mind introvert and makes it calm.
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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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There are no impediments to meditation. The very thought of such obstacles is the greatest impediment.
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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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If you make the thief the policeman there will be lots of investigation but no arrests will ever be made.
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