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Verse 11: Knowing anything other than oneself is ignorance, but when one knows the reality of oneself, knowledge and ignorance of everything else will cease.
Michael James • Ramana Maharshi's Forty Verses on What Is
Paramahansa Yogananada
Philip Carr-Gomm • Seek Teachings Everywhere: Combining Druid Spirituality with Other Traditions
The Sufi poet Rumi once wrote, “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right-doing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there.”
Marshall B. Rosenberg • Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life: Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships (Nonviolent Communication Guides)
Bhagavan uses the term ‘thought’, the world and all its features are nothing other than thoughts or mental phenomena, namely all things that appear and disappear, all things other than ourself.
Michael James • Ramana Maharshi's Forty Verses on What Is
Find out who is the doer and the Self is revealed.
Ramana Maharshi • Be As You Are: The spiritual teachings and wisdom of Sri Ramana Maharshi (Arkana)
[awareness-investigation] called “who am I” alone is the principal means’, is reiterated by him in many other paragraphs.
Ramana Maharshi, Sandra Derksen, • Ramana Maharshi's Who Am I?
Shunryu Suzuki
Jack Kornfield • The Wise Heart: Buddhist Psychology for the West
all phenomena depend for their seeming existence upon the seeming existence of ourself as ego. Since ego (the subject or knower) and phenomena (the objects or things that are known) both appear and disappear, neither of them is real, but though they appear and disappear simultaneously, phenomena shine or seem to exist only because of ego, as Bhagav
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freedom. The twentieth-century Indian meditation master Sri Nisargadatta