Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.
RAMANA MAHARSHIAll unhappiness is due to the ego. With it comes all your trouble. If you would deny the ego and scorch it by ignoring it you would be free.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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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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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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We are always peace. To get rid of the idea that we are not peace is all that is required.
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Unless one is happy, one cannot bestow happiness on others.
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All activities and events that a body is to go through are determined at the time of conception.
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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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Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows ‘I am!’ No one can deny his own being.
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Meditation depends upon the strength of mind. It must be unceasing even when one is engaged in work. Particular time for it is meant for novices.
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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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No one succeeds without effort. Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.
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Correcting oneself is correcting the whole world. The Sun is simply bright. It does not correct anyone. Because it shines, the whole world is full of light. Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.
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If one’s mind has peace, the whole world will appear peaceful.
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To the extent we behave with humility, to that extent good will result.
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The world is not outside you.
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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?”
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