"Surrender is to give oneself up to the original cause of one's being."
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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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"Call it by any name, God, Self, the Heart, or the Seat of Consciousness, it is all the same."
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"Calmness is the criterion of spiritual progress. Plunge the purified mind into the Heart. Then the work is over."
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"When one makes the mind stick to one thought, the mind becomes rock-steady and the energy is conserved."
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"Remain still, with the conviction that the Self shines as everything yet nothing, within, without, and everywhere."
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"The very fact that we wish for liberation shows that freedom from all bondage is our real nature. It is not to be freshly acquired. All that is necessary is to get rid of the false notion that we are bound."
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"Grace is not something outside or you.. In fact, your very desire for grace is due to grace that is already working in you."
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"Suffering is the way for Realization of God."
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"The mind of one meditating on a single object becomes one-pointed. And one-pointedness of mind leads to abidance in the self. Real attainment is to be fully conscious, to be aware of surroundings and the people around, to move among them all, but not to merge consciousness in the environment. One should remain in inner independent awareness."
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"To the extent we behave with humility, to that extent good will result."
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"For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination."
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"Beyond the belief that something can be lost, there is nothing to lose."
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"The thing to do is to concentrate on the seer and not on the seen, not on the objects, but on the Light which reveals them."
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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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"There is no Truth. There is only the truth within each moment."
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"The seat of Realization is within and the seeker cannot find it as an object outside him. That seat is bliss and is the core of all beings. Hence it is called the Heart."
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"There is neither Past nor Future. There is only the Present."
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"What exists in truth is the Self alone. The world, the individual soul and God are appearances in it. Like silver in mother-of-pearl, these three appear at the same time and disappear at the same time. The Self is that where there is absolutely no 'I thought'. That is called 'Stillness'. The Self itself is the world; the Self itself is 'I'; the Self itself is God; all is Siva, the Self."
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"When one remains without thinking one understands another by means of the universal language of Silence."
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