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You have to ask yourself the question 'Who am I?' This investigation will lead in the end to the discovery of something within you which… — Ramana Maharshi
The 'I' casts off the illusion of the 'I' and yet remains 'I'. Such is the paradox of Self-realization. The Realized do not see any… — Ramana Maharshi
A man does not have to go and find where his eyes are in order to see. The heart is there, always open to you,… — Ramana Maharshi
Concentration is not thinking of one thing. On the contrary, it is excluding all thoughts, since all thoughts obstruct the sense of one's true being.… — Ramana Maharshi
Stillness is your essential nature. What is stillness? The inner space or awareness in which the words on this page are bieng perceived and become… — Eckhart Tolle
There is no reaching the Self. If Self were to be reached, it would mean that the Self is not here and now but that… — Ramana Maharshi
Because truth is exceedingly subtle and serene, the bliss of the Self can manifest only in a mind rendered subtle and steady by assiduous meditation. — Ramana Maharshi
Give up the idea of being a person, that is all. You need not become what you are anyhow. There is the identity of what… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
This silence, this moment, every moment, if it's genuinely inside you, brings what you need. There's nothing to believe. Only when I stopped believing in… — Rumi
We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion. Many refuse to admit it: I feel a… — Ansel Adams
Everybody should have his personal sounds to listen for - sounds that will make him exhilarated and alive or quiet and calm. — Andre Kostelanetz
The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts… — Thomas Jefferson
There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you.... In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season on… — Ruth Stout
There is no violent surface indication of the ecstasy which great thinkers alone enjoy. There is nothing dramatic about it, but there is some subtle… — Walter Russell
He who cultivates that quiet, unobtrusive ecstasy of inner joyousness can scale any heights and be a leader in his field, no matter what that… — Walter Russell
Science lives only in quiet places, and with odd people, mostly poor. — John Ruskin
When sin lets us alone we may let sin alone; but as sin is never less quiet than when it seems to be most quiet,… — John Owen
I have often had cause to feel that my hands are cleverer than my head. That is a crude way of characterizing the dialectics of… — George Wald
War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune. — Walter Raleigh
How do you meditate? You meditate with an inner cry. There should be an inner cry here, in the heart. The outer cry is ego-centred;… — Sri Chinmoy
When you meditate you have to try to quiet and calm the mind. There should be no thought within the mind. Right now you feel… — Sri Chinmoy
Meditation does not mean just sitting quietly for five or ten minutes. It requires conscious effort. The mind has to be made calm and quiet;… — Sri Chinmoy
The quiet mind is richer than a crown....Such sweet content, such minds, such sleep, such bliss beggars enjoy when princes oft do miss. — Robert Greene
Thought ceases in meditation; even the mind's elements are quite quiet. Blood circulation stops. His breath stops, but he is not dead. — Swami Vivekananda
Because of watching your breath and thoughts you have come to know now that you are neither thoughts nor your breath, you are the watcher,… — Rajneesh

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