The greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened.
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.
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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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Misery does not exist in reality but only in mere imagination.
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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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Then all this earth shines like one house.
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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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Beyond the belief that something can be lost, there is nothing to lose.
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Self-inquiry is the process and the goal also. ‘I am’ is the goal and the final reality. To hold to it with effort is self-inquiry. When spontaneous and natural it is realization.
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Liberation exists- and you will never be liberated.
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The self is known to every one but not clearly. You always exist.
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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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Doubts arise because of an absence of surrender.
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Meditation helps concentration of the mind. Then the mind is free from thoughts and is in the meditated form.
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One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.
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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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There is neither Past nor Future. There is only the Present.
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