The enemy hates the ego, which the seeker wants to kill; thus, like the anvil to the goldsmith, he is actually a friend.
RAMANA MAHARSHIGrace 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.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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We are in our Self. We are not in the world.
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The deeply learned ones know the mind as the directly expressed meaning of the supreme knowledge. The heart is the meaning aimed at. The Supreme is none other than the heart.
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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.
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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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The main factor in meditation is to keep the mind active in its own pursuit without taking in external impressions or thinking of other matters.
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Realisation is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage.
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Our identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are.
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God’s grace consists in the fact that He shines in the heart of every one as the Self; that power of grace does not exclude any one, whether good or otherwise.
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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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This perception of division between the seer and the object that is seen, is situated in the mind. For those remaining in the heart, the seer becomes one with the sight.
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Unless one is happy, one cannot bestow happiness on others.
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Aim high, aim at the highest, and all lower aims are thereby achieved. It is looking below on the stormy sea of differences that makes you sink. Look up, beyond these and see the One Glorious Real, and you are saved.
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To know one’s Self is to be blissful always.
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You and I are the same. What I have done is surely possible for all. You are the Self now and can never be anything else. Throw your worries to the wind, turn within and find Peace.
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Whatever is destined not to happen will not happen, try as you may. Whatever is destined to happen will happen, do what you may to prevent it. This is certain. The best course, therefore, is to remain silent.
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