Quotes About Clarity

We may like well to know what is Plato's and what is Montesquieu's or Goethe's part, and what thought was always dear to the writer himself; but the worth of the sentences consists in their radiancy and equal aptitude to all intelligence. They fit all our facts like a charm. We respect ourselves the more that we know them.

[A]s if life were a thunder-storm wherein you can see by a flash the horizon, and then cannot see your hand....

The reason why men do not obey us is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world sparkles with light.

What you are shouts so loud in my ears I cannot hear what you say.

What you see is what it is!

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As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be, you can't see how it is.

As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is.

The next message you need is always right where you are.

The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.

Realisation is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage

Mind your business. Take care of what you came here for. Find the 'I' first and you may afterwards speak of other matters.

Your concentration must come as easily as the breath. Fix yourself on one thing and try to hold onto it. All will come right. Meditation is sticking to one thought. That single thought keeps away other thoughts. The dissipated mind is a sign of its weakness. By constant meditation it gains strength.

If the light of the sun is invisible to the owl it is only the fault of that bird and not of the sun.

If you understand your own reality, then that of the rishis and Masters will be clear to you. There is only one Master and that is the Self […] The power is only one in all. (p. 110-111)

What the mind has to do is not to suggest a reply, but to remain quiet so that the true reply can arise.

All that is needed is that you give up your realisation of the not-true as true.

Ramana Maharshi's advice on depression) This depression must be traced to its origin. The origin is the wrong identification of the body with the Self. The disease is not of the Self. It is of the body. But the body does not come and tell you that it is possessed by the disease. It is you who say so. Why? Because you have wrongly identified yourself with the body. The body itself is a thought. Be as you really are. There is no reason to be depressed. (p. 360)

Realization is nothing to be gained afresh, it is already there. All that is necessary is to get rid of the thought 'I have not realised'.

The intricate maze of philosophy of the various schools is said to clarify matters and to reveal the Truth, but in fact it creates confusion where none need exist. To understand anything there must be the Self. The Self is obvious, so why not remain as the Self? What need to explain the non-self?

Are you listening to Life or your Mind?

As long as you're Unaware, you lead a miserable life. The moment you're aware of all that is happening around you, You have arrived Home; it is only then that you relish what life brings in; but if you're unaware, even the greatest moments bring despair.

Being simple is the most complicated thing nowadays!"