If you make the thief the policeman there will be lots of investigation but no arrests will ever be made.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThe fact is that you are not the body. The Self does not move but the world moves in it. You are only what you are.
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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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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.
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There is no mind to control if you realise the self. The mind having vanished, the self shines forth. In the realised man, the mind may be active or inactive, the self remains for him.
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A realized one sends out waves of spiritual influence in his aura, which draw many people towards him. Yet he may sit in a cave and maintain complete silence.
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All that exists is but the manifestation of the Supreme Being.
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True silence is really endless speech.
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It is within your competence to think and thus to get bound or to cease thinking and thus be free.
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He who thinks he is the doer is also the sufferer.
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Realisation is nothing new to be acquired. It is already there, but obstructed by a screen of thoughts. All our attempts are directed to lifting this screen and then realisation is revealed.
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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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He who has realized the Self in the Heart has transcended the dualities and is never perplexed.
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I see only what you see, but I notice what I see.
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Misery does not exist in reality but only in mere imagination.
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The Self is the one Reality that always exists, and it is by the light of the Self that all other things are seen.
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The ego’s phenomenal existence is transcended when you dive into the source from where the `I’-thought rises.
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