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Self-inquiry is the process and the goal also. ‘I am’ is the goal and the final reality. To hold to it with effort is self-inquiry. When spontaneous and natural it is realization.

Ramana Maharshi

You do not like to suffer yourself. How can you inflict suffering on others?
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Suffering Yourself
Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.
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Light Self Love Transformation World Yourself
If you observe awareness steadily, this awareness itself becomes the Guru that will reveal the Truth.
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Aware Observation Reveal Truth Willing
Silence is also conversation.
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Conversation One Liner Silence
If you go the way of your thoughts you will be carried away by them and you will find yourself in an endless maze.
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End Thinking Way Yourself
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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Care Future Present Trouble Yourself
Sense-perceptions can only be indirect knowledge, and not direct knowledge. Only one’s own awareness is direct knowledge.
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Aware Direct Knowledge Oneself
The state of self-realization, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been.
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Call Goal Reach Realize Simplicity State 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
Peace is your natural state. It is the mind that obstructs the natural state.
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Mindset Natural Peace State Yourself
The source of the ego is God.
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Ego God One Liner Source
Realization consists of getting rid of the false idea that one is not realized.
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Fake Idea Oneself Realize
Nearly all mankind is more or less unhappy because nearly all do not know the true Self. Real happiness abides in Self-knowledge alone. All else is fleeting. To know one’s Self is to be blissful always.
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Bliss Kind Knowledge Man Reality
Grace is within you. If it were external, it would be useless.
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Grace Heart Yourself
Beyond the belief that something can be lost, there is nothing to lose.
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Belief Beyond Inspirational Lose Risk
Truth burns up all karma and frees you from all births.
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Born Burn Freedom Karma Truth Yourself
It is said that the I-activity is the root of all activities. From where the I-thought emerges, that in short is the heart.
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Ego Heart Myself Thinking
If you make the thief the policeman there will be lots of investigation but no arrests will ever be made.
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Arrest Manifestation Thief Yourself
All activities and events that a body is to go through are determined at the time of conception.
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Activity Body Concept Determination Event Time
He who thinks he is the doer is also the sufferer.
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Action Himself Suffering Thinking
The more you prune a plant, the more it grows. So too the more you seek to annihilate the ego, the more it will increase. You should seek the root of the ego and destroy it.
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Destroy Ego Growth Plant Seek Yourself
If the ego rises, all else will also rise; if it subsides, all else will also subside.
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Ego Rise Spirituality Wisdom
All that one gives to others one gives to one’s self. If this truth is understood, who will not give to others?
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Karma Oneself Truth Understand
Grace is within you. Grace is your self. Grace is not something to be acquired from others. If it is external, it is useless. All that is necessary is to know its existence is in you. You are never out of its operation.
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Existence Grace Necessary Oneself Operation Yourself
There is neither creation nor destruction, neither destiny nor free will, neither path nor achievement. This is the final truth.
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Achievement Creation Destiny Destruction Freedom Truth
Because truth is exceedingly subtle and serene, the bliss of the Self can manifest only in a mind rendered subtle and steady by assiduous meditation.
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Bliss Manifestation Meditation Mindset Subtle Truth
Mind is a wonderful force inherent in the Self.
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Force Mindset Oneself Wonder

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