Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence.
RAMANA MAHARSHIRealisation is nothing new to be acquired. It is already there, but obstructed by a screen of thoughts. All our attempts are directed to lifting this screen and then realisation is revealed.
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Engage yourself in the living present. The future will take care of itself.
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When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.
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The activity affected by causes like fainting, sleep, excessive joy, grief, possession by spirits, fear etc goes to the heart, its own place.
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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 observe awareness steadily, this awareness itself becomes the Guru that will reveal the Truth.
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In the Heart’s cavity, the sole Brahman as an ever-persisting ‘I’ shines direct in the form of the Self. Into the Heart enter thyself, with mind in search or in deeper plunge. Or by restraint of life-movement be firmly poised in the Self.
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We are always peace. To get rid of the idea that we are not peace is all that is required.
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The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.
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Your duty is to Be, and not to be this or that.
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Your duty is to be, and not to be this or that. I Am That I Am sums up the whole truth; the method is summarized in Be Still.
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You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.
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There is a state when words cease and silence prevails.
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When one remains without thinking one understands another by means of the universal language of Silence.
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The greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened.
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All that one gives to others one gives to one’s self. If this truth is understood, who will not give to others?
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