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Judge nothing, you will be happy

Sri Chimnoy says : “Judge nothing, you will be happy. Forgive everything, you will be happier. Love everything, you will be happiest.”

Good and evil are useless discriminations

Song Chol says : “Good and evil are useless discriminations and so it follows that even though the Devil and Buddha have different names, they are one and the same. Consequently, to merely forgive an evildoer and not respect him…

From Swami Chinmayananda

Swami Chinmayananda says : “Every activity of every person is only to satisfy the mind. The mind is the commander. The mind is the king. If the mind is happy, I am happy. If the mind is unhappy, I am…

That which you see is never you

Richard Rose says : “That which you see is never you. That which sees is you. This is a subtractive path. God exists, I don’t. If I can’t honor the tiniest truths, how can I become the Truth? If the…

The final obstacle to meditation is ecstasy

Ramana Maharishi says : “The final obstacle to meditation is ecstasy, when you feel great bliss and happiness, the tendency is to stay in that ecstasy. Do not yield to this but pass onto the sixth stage which is great…

For all thoughts the source is the ‘I-thought’

Ramana Maharishi says : “For all thoughts the source is the ‘I-thought’. The mind will merge only by Self-enquiry ‘Who am I?’ The thought ‘Who am l?’ will destroy all other thoughts and finally kill itself also. If other thoughts…

Perception of ‘I’ is associated with a form

Ramana Maharishi says : “Devotee: When I enquire into the origin of thoughts, there is the perception of the ‘I’ but it does not satisfy me. Ramana Maharishi: Quite right. Because this perception of ‘I’ is associated with a form,…

“No want” is the greatest bliss

Ramana Maharishi says : “All beings desire happiness always, happiness without a tinge of sorrow. At the same time everybody loves himself best. The cause for love is only happiness. So, that happiness must lie within oneself. Further, that happiness…

The easy way, the direct way

Ramana Maharishi says : “A Yogi was doing penance (tapas) for a number of years on the banks of the Ganges. When he had attained a high degree of concentration, he believed that continuance in that stage for prolonged periods…

The mind is the past and the past is a graveyard

Papa ji says : “When you are out walking and you become tired you stop, you sit down, you relax. So when you get tired of trying to find solutions to your problems, when you find no solution, sit down.…

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