When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.
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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There is no greater mystery than this, that we keep seeking reality though in fact we are reality.
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There is nothing wrong with God’s creation. Mystery and Suffering only exist in the mind.
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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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When the mind, one-pointed and fully focused, knows the supreme silence in the Heart, this is true learning.
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The explorers seek happiness in finding curiosities, discovering new lands and undergoing risks in adventures. They are thrilling. But where is pleasure found? Only within. Pleasure is not to be sought in the external world.
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Beyond the belief that something can be lost, there is nothing to lose.
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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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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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Aim high, aim at the highest, and all lower aims are thereby achieved. It is looking below on the stormy sea of differences that makes you sink. Look up, beyond these and see the One Glorious Real, and you are saved.
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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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Whatever is done lovingly, with righteous purity and with peace of mind, is a good action. Everything which is done with the stain of desire and with agitation filling the mind is classified as a bad action.
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The source of the ego is God.
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The end of all wisdom is love, love, love.
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We dig a well and create a huge pit. The space in the pit or well has not been created by us. We have just removed the earth which was filling the space there. The space was there then and is also there now.
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Without knowing the Knower, all the knowledge that one gathers cannot be valid.
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