If you approach the ocean with a cup, you can only take away a cupful; if you approach it with a bucket you can take away a bucketful.
RAMANA MAHARSHIBy whatever path you go, you will have to lose yourself in the one. Surrender is complete only when you reach the stage `Thou art all’ and `Thy will be done’.
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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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The ultimate truth is so simple. It is nothing more than being in the pristine state. This is all that needs to be said. Only mature minds can grasp the simple truth in all its nakedness.
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Sense-perceptions can only be indirect knowledge, and not direct knowledge. Only one’s own awareness is direct knowledge.
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Why should you trouble yourself about the future? You do not even properly know about the present. Take care of the present, the future will take care of itself.
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Silence is truth. Silence is bliss. Silence is peace. And hence Silence is the Self.
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Mind is a wonderful force inherent in the Self.
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You are already That which you seek.
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Take no notice of the ego and its activities, but see only the light behind.
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Meditation helps concentration of the mind. Then the mind is free from thoughts and is in the meditated form.
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Nobody doubts that he exists, though he may doubt the existence of God. If he finds out the truth about himself and discovers his own source, this is all that is required.
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The world is illusory, Only Brahman is real, Brahman is the world
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There is nothing wrong with God’s creation. Mystery and Suffering only exist in the mind.
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Grace is within you. If it were external, it would be useless.
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To ask the mind to kill itself is like making the thief the policeman. He will go with you and pretend to catch the thief, but nothing will be gained. So you must turn inward and see where the mind rises from, and then it will cease to exist.
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Pure Consciousness, which is the Heart, includes all, and nothing is outside or apart from it. That is the ultimate Truth.
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