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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.

Ramana Maharshi

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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Degree Focus Freedom Measurement Progress Spiritual
It is said that the heart is in the microcosm just as the orb of the sun in the macrocosm. The mind in Sahasrara is like the disc of the moon.
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Heart Mindset Moon Science Sun
Whenever a thought arises, instead of trying even a little either to follow it up or to fulfil it, it would be better to first enquire, “To whom did this thought arise?”
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Follow Rise Thinking
You know that you know nothing. Find out that knowledge.
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Aware Knowledge Known Wisdom Yourself
The search “Who am I” ends in the annihilation of the illusory “I” and the Self which remains over will be as clear as a gooseberry in the palm of one’s hand.
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End Hands Illusion Oneself Remain Search
The place where even the slightest trace of the ‘I’ does not exist, alone is Self.
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Ego Existence Oneself Place
There is nothing wrong with God’s creation. Mystery and Suffering only exist in the mind.
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Creation Existence God Mindset Mystery Suffering Wrong
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.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Grace Heart Imagination Mindset Present Sky Source Yourself
If a person realises his position and stays in his own self, things that are to happen will happen. Things that are not to happen will not happen. The shakti that is in the world, is only one. All these troubles arise if we think that we are separate from that shakti.
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Energy Person Realize Separate Thinking Trouble Willing World Yourself
The normal self is the mind. The mind is with limitations. But pure Consciousness is beyond limitations, and is reached by investigation into the “I.”
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Beyond Consciousness Investigation Limitation Mindset Myself Purity
Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Happiness Philosophy Search Seek Wisdom Yourself
The thing to do is to concentrate on the seer and not on the seen, not on the objects, but on the Light which reveals them.
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Focus Light Object Reveal
Turn the mind inward and cease thinking of yourself as the body; thereby you will come to know that the self is ever happy. Neither grief nor misery is experienced in this state.
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Experience Grief Mindset State Thinking Yourself
There is no Truth. There is only the truth within each moment.
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Moments Truth
Let what comes come, let what goes go.
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Acceptance Let Go
Meditation is sticking to one thought. That single thought keeps away other thoughts; distraction of mind is a sign of its weakness; by constant meditation it gains strength.
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Distraction Meditation Oneself Weakness

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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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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