Break the destructive habit of false labeling

"To make all this practical, you must watch the thoughts and

feelings which parade through you, but not say 'I' to them.

You must not identify yourself as being good, bad, right, wrong,

or anything else. This impersonal watchfulness breaks the de-

structive habit of false labeling, and sets you free.

Try being exactly who you are. At first it shocks, then it heals."

                    Pathways to Perfect Living, p. 19

Cling to Self attention

40.  How does this false and villainous vast world, that cheats and ravages the minds of all people [except the wise], come into existence?  For no reason other than our error in falling away from, instead of clinging to, Self-attention.

From the book The Garland of Guru's Sayings

from the Teachings of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi

You are not thoughts

"Madness is to think that a cluster of thoughts is you."

                   A Treasury of Trueness, # 948

How Much Further?

"If understanding is conquest, how much further do you have to go

to victory?"

                   A Treasury of Trueness, # 1250

We are always the Self.

335. Removal of the notion that we have not realized the Self is all that is required. We are always the Self. Only, we don't realize it.

You are not who you imagine

"Absorb the fact that you are not who you imagine you are and it

will carry you all the way out of the jungle."

            1500 Ways to Escape the Human Jungle, # 1125

All of us are realizing

311. All of us are realizing, i.e., regarding as real, that which is not real. We have only to give up this practice on our part. Then we shall realize the Self as the Self, or in other words, "Be the Self".

Self evident

312. At one stage one would laugh at oneself that one tried to discover the Self, which is so self-evident.

It was a dream

"One day we'll all wake up to the dream, see it was a dream, and laugh at the whole thing."

What mind must do

302."...the mind must give up thinking of external things and must think of the Self, or God as they may call it..."