It is within your competence to think and thus to get bound or to cease thinking and thus be free.
RAMANA MAHARSHIWhy 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.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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Pleasure and pain are only aspects of the mind. Our essential nature is happiness.
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Mind is a wonderful force inherent in the Self.
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That which is not present in deep dreamless sleep is not real.
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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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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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Instead of indulging in mere speculation, devote yourself here and now to the search for the Truth that is ever within you.
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Realization is to get rid of the delusion that you have not realized.
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When the mind, one-pointed and fully focused, knows the supreme silence in the Heart, this is true learning.
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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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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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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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Call it by any name, God, Self, the Heart, or the Seat of Consciousness, it is all the same.
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Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.
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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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Love is verily the heart of all religions.
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