In truth, you are spirit. The body has been projected by the mind, which itself originates from Spirit.
RAMANA MAHARSHIPeace is your natural state. It is the mind that obstructs the natural state.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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True silence is really endless speech.
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God illumines the mind and shines within it. One cannot know God by means of the mind. One can but turn the mind inwards and merge it in God.
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Peace can reign only where there is no disturbance, and disturbance is due to thoughts that arise in the mind.
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See what helps you to keep away all other thoughts and adopt that method for your meditation.
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The pure mind is itself Brahman; it therefore follows that Brahman is not other than the mind of the sage.
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Unless one is happy, one cannot bestow happiness on others.
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Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows ‘I am!’ No one can deny his own being.
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When your real, effortless, joyful grateful nature is realized, it will not be inconsistent with the ordinary activities of life.
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All that is required to realise the Self is to “Be Still.
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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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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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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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Happiness is not to be sought in solitude or in busy centers. It is in the Self.
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Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.
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The Self is here and now, it is the only Reality. There is nothing else.
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