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Ramana Maharshi

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Silence is one great art of conversation.
ANON. Silence is one great art of conversation.
ANONYMOUS Let come what comes, let go what goes. See what remains.
RAMANA MAHARSHI The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
RAMANA MAHARSHI No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.
RAMANA MAHARSHI It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.
RAMANA MAHARSHI Think of God; attachments will gradually drop away. If you wait till all desires disappear before st...
RAMANA MAHARSHI Suffering turns men towards their creator.
RAMANA MAHARSHI I am not the perishable body, but the eternal Self.
RAMANA MAHARSHI The best way to meditate is through meditation itself.
RAMANA MAHARSHI Silence is ever speaking; it is the perennial flow of language.
RAMANA MAHARSHI Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
RAMANA MAHARSHI Time and space always change, but there is something which is eternal and changeless. For example, t...
RAMANA MAHARSHI All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There a...
RAMANA MAHARSHI I have never said that there is no need for a guru. All depends on what you call guru. He need not b...
RAMANA MAHARSHI The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are...
RAMANA MAHARSHI Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that. If yo...
RAMANA MAHARSHI Doubts never end. If one doubt is removed, another takes its place. It is like removing the leaves o...
RAMANA MAHARSHI Society is the body; individuals are its members, its limbs. Just as the various limbs help and co-o...
RAMANA MAHARSHI The Self is self-luminous without darkness and light, and is the reality which is self-manifest. The...
RAMANA MAHARSHI For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage ca...
RAMANA MAHARSHI You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.
RAMANA MAHARSHI If one wants to abide in the thought-free state, a struggle is inevitable. One must fight one's way ...
RAMANA MAHARSHI If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seek...
RAMANA MAHARSHI Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world.
RAMANA MAHARSHI Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later ...
RAMANA MAHARSHI It is not enough that one surrenders oneself. Surrender is to give oneself up to the original cause ...
RAMANA MAHARSHI Concentration of the mind is in a way common to both Knowledge and Yoga. Yoga aims at union of the i...
RAMANA MAHARSHI Like the practice of breath control, meditation on the forms of God, repetition of mantras, food res...
RAMANA MAHARSHI It is the Higher Power which does everything, and the man is only a tool. If he accepts that positio...
RAMANA MAHARSHI Who am I? Not the body, because it is decaying; not the mind, because the brain will decay with the ...
RAMANA MAHARSHI That which comes and goes, rises and sets, is born and dies is the ego. That which always abides, ne...
RAMANA MAHARSHI If you are vigilant and make a stern effort to reject every thought when it rises, you will soon fin...
RAMANA MAHARSHI The greatest error of a man is to think that he is weak by nature, evil by nature. Every man is divi...
RAMANA MAHARSHI When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.
RAMANA MAHARSHI Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the at...
RAMANA MAHARSHI The Real is ever-present, like the screen on which the cinematographic pictures move. While the pict...
RAMANA MAHARSHI There is neither creation nor destruction,
neither destiny nor free will, neither
path nor...
RAMANA MAHARSHI The pure mind is itself Brahman; it therefore follows that Brahman is not other than the mind of the...
RAMANA MAHARSHI Does a man who is acting on the stage in a female part forget that he is a man? Similarly, we too mu...
RAMANA MAHARSHI Even as one and the same person is called by different names according to the different functions he...
RAMANA MAHARSHI As instruments for knowing the objects, the sense organs are outside, and so they are called outer s...
RAMANA MAHARSHI There is no doubt that breath control is the means for mind control because the mind, like breath, i...
RAMANA MAHARSHI It is grace in us that inspire us to seek grace outside.
RAMANA MAHARSHI The means that make one qualified for enquiry are meditation, yoga, etc. One should gain proficiency...
RAMANA MAHARSHI Our own self-realization is the greatest service we can render the world.
RAMANA MAHARSHI Actions yield result by the ordinance of God as He wills.
RAMANA MAHARSHI Experiences such as, 'I went; I came; I was; I did,' come naturally to everyone. From these ...
RAMANA MAHARSHI He (Macaulay) has occasional flashes of silence that make his conversation perfectly delightful
SYDNEY SMITH Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO Be aware of your intrinsic energies - that is what you are made of!- Ramana Pemmaraju
RAMANA PEMMARAJU Silence is also a form of speaking.
HERTA MüLLER It was mortifying to find how strong the habit of idle speech may become in one’s self. One need n...
SARAH ORNE JEWETT Silence is also speech
PROVERB Sometimes the best conversation between two people is simply being with each other ...in silence.
LORRIN L. LEE There is nothing worse than silence, strung like heavy beads on too delicate a conversation.
JODI PICOULT He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
SYDNEY SMITH He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
SYDNEY SMITH The desert has its holiness of silence, the crowd its holiness of conversation.
WALTER ELLIOT The desert has its holiness of silence, the crowd its holiness of conversation
WALTER ELLIOT There’s nothing worse than silence, strung like heavy beads on too delicate a conversation.
JODI PICOULT Lying is done with words and also with silence.
ADRIENNE RICH Lying is done with words, and also with silence.
ADRIENNE RICH The most enjoyable conversation you can have may be complete silence with the one you love who loves...
LORRIN L. LEE Silence against cruelty is the biggest crime in the world, and we do.
JUNAID RAZA Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, 'there is ...
TOM BLAIR Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, "there is ...
TOM BLAIR They are also skilled in the art of conversation,
ZIYI ZHANG I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in co...
ANNE BRONTë Words were few and failing between them as though the silence that sat with them had laid its old li...
MICHAEL BEDARD Silence is the sanctuary of the prudent, it conceals not only secrets but also imperfections.
ZACHARIA Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.
THOMAS CARLYLE The most honest conversations are those you have with yourself in the silence of deep self-contempla...
MICHAEL DE CHâTILLON We fall back into silence. I look around XO Café and notice that chatter happens mostly at tables w...
JODI PICOULT real silence is silence without words, silence that speak words in silence and silence that talks be...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH His enemies might have said before that he talked rather too much; but now he has occasional flashes...
SYDNEY SMITH A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals h...
E. M. CIORAN Make peace with silence, and remind yourself that it is in this space that you'll come to remember y...
WAYNE W. DYER real silence is silence without words, silence that speaks words in silence and silence that talks b...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH It's a hard thing to hold a civil conversation after recalling that one party has used a Taser on th...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER When a man goes silent on his ways and plans, you must ponder!
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH To silence criticism is to silence freedom.
SIDNEY HOOK Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.
MARCEL MARCEAU And now there is merely silence, silence, silence, saying all we did not know
WILLIAM ROSE BENET There are many types of silence. There is a silence before the note, there is a silence at the end a...
DANIEL BARENBOIM While silence can in some circumstances bespeak noble self-control, it can also signify suppression,...
EPHRAIM MIRVIS When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.
YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO The real power of silence is to keep silent. The real power of silence is in the works of silence!
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Silence is not always tact, but it is tact that is golden, not silence.
SAMUEL BUTLER Silence is not always tact, and it is tact that is golden, not silence.
SAMUEL BUTLER Silence is golden, unless you have kids, then silence is just plain suspicious.
ANONYMOUS If you have something to say, then say it. If not, enjoy the silence while it lasts. The noise will ...
HUGH MACLEOD Where love is, there God is also.
MAHATMA GANDHI Every day silence harvests its victims. Silence is a mortal illness.
NATALIA GINZBURG Silence is golden but too long a silence an imitation junk
AMIT ABRAHAM The boring thing with taking a walk with someone is that your thoughts are then dictated by the subj...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA You wouldn't walk with your underpants stuck in your bottom, you'd adjust them. So don't treat the i...
CONVERSATION WITH APIGEON Since I'm not a journalist, I talk about issues that encourage an interchange of ideas through c...
THALIA Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.
AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT When silence is a choice, it is an unnerving presence. When silence is imposed, it is censorship.
TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS

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