The ego’s phenomenal existence is transcended when you dive into the source from where the `I’-thought rises.
RAMANA MAHARSHIEven the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the atom. That which is behind the mind, namely the individual soul, is subtler than the mind.
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You know that you know nothing. Find out that knowledge.
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For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.
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No one succeeds without effort. Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.
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When one makes the mind stick to one thought, the mind becomes rock-steady and the energy is conserved.
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When the mind, one-pointed and fully focused, knows the supreme silence in the Heart, this is true learning.
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You have to ask yourself the question ‘Who am I?’ This investigation will lead in the end to the discovery of something within you which is behind the mind. Solve that great problem and you will solve all other problems.
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Engage yourself in the living present. The future will take care of itself.
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As you are, so is the world.
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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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When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.
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That is the ego which rises and sinks periodically. But you exist always. That which lies beyond the ego is consciousness – the Self.
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All are seeing God always. But they do not know it.
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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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Beyond the belief that something can be lost, there is nothing to lose.
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He who thinks he is the doer is also the sufferer.
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