Peace is the inner nature of humankind. If you find it within yourself, you will then find it everywhere.
RAMANA MAHARSHIWhen the mind is left without anything to cling to, it becomes still.
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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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Misery does not exist in reality but only in mere imagination.
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One should remain as a witness to whatever happens, adopting the attitude, ‘Let whatever strange things that happens happen, let us see!’ This should be one’s practice. Nothing happens by accident in the divine scheme of things.
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The end of all wisdom is love, love, love.
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You know that you know nothing. Find out that knowledge.
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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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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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Once the current of awareness of the self is set afoot, it becomes everlasting and continuous by intensification.
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Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows ‘I am!’ No one can deny his own being.
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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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Good thoughts keep off bad thoughts. They must themselves disappear before the state of realization.
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You may go on reading any number of books on Meditation. They can only tell you ‘Realize the Self’. The Self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself in yourself.
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He who thinks he is the doer is also the sufferer.
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Happiness is not to be sought in solitude or in busy centers. It is in the Self.
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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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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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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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Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.
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The state we call realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything.
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The question ‘Who am I?’ is not really meant to get an answer, the question ‘Who am I?’ is meant to dissolve the questioner.
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Bliss is a thing which is always there and is not something which comes and goes. That which comes and goes is a creation of the mind.
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Take no notice of the ego and its activities, but see only the light behind.
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Guru, God and Self are One.
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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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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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Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that.
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