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“There’s a mystic who says there’s only one really good question, which is, ‘What am I unwilling to feel?”
Tara Brach
Self-inquiry
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Awareness
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Emotions
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Truth
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Wisdom
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“On the occasion of every accident that befalls you, remember to turn to yourself and inquire what power you have for turning it to use.”
Epictetus
Accident
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Power
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Perspective
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Self-Inquiry
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Growth
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“The inquiry “who am I” turns the mind inward and makes it calm.”
Ramana Maharshi
Self-inquiry
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Mindfulness
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Calmness
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Self
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Meditation
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“Doubts never end. If one doubt is removed, another takes its place. It is like removing the leaves of a tree one by one. Even if all the leaves are clipped off, new ones grow. The tree itself must be uprooted.”
Ramana Maharshi
Doubts
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Mind
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Clarity
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Growth
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Self-Inquiry
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“If you make the thief the policeman there will be lots of investigation but no arrests will ever be made.”
Ramana Maharshi
Mind
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Ego
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Investigation
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Self-Inquiry
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Awareness
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“Self-inquiry is the process and the goal also. ‘I am’ is the goal and the final reality. To hold to it with effort is self-inquiry. When spontaneous and natural it is realization.”
Ramana Maharshi
Self-Inquiry
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Realization
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Goal
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Awareness
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Truth
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“Controlling speech and breath, and diving deep within oneself – like one who, to find a thing that has fallen into water, dives deep down – one must seek out the source whence the aspiring ego springs.”
Ramana Maharshi
Speech
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Breath
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Ego
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Self-Inquiry
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Meditation
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“How to get rid of the mind? Is it the mind that wants to kill itself? The mind cannot kill itself. So your business is to find the real nature of the mind. Then you will know that there is no mind. When the Self is sought, the mind is nowhere. Abiding in the Self, one need not worry about the mind.”
Ramana Maharshi
Mind
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Self-Inquiry
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Awareness
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Ego
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Meditation
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“That which is worth taking up is the self-enquiry that reveals jnana; that which is worth enjoying is the grandeur of the Self; that which is worth renouncing is the ego-mind; that in which it is worth taking refuge, to eliminate sorrow completely, is one’s own source, the Heart.”
Ramana Maharshi
Self-Inquiry
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Ego
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Knowledge
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Renunciation
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Heart
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“To ask the mind to kill itself is like making the thief the policeman. He will go with you and pretend to catch the thief, but nothing will be gained. So you must turn inward and see where the mind rises from, and then it will cease to exist.”
Ramana Maharshi
Mind
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Self-Inquiry
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Ego
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Awareness
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Meditation
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“Everything is coming to an end, I thought. But what does that mean? Why do I say things to myself when I don’t even know what they mean?”
Anne Rice
Endings
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Reflection
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Uncertainty
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Existential Musings
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Self-inquiry
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“My soul sits in silence, and then asks again, where are you in all of this?”
Rumi
Soul
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Silence
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Self-Inquiry
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Reflection
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Peace
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Self-Awareness
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“Through my own observations. I am convinced that an absolutely honest and direct inquiry into oneself will lead to understanding.”
Bruce Lee
Self-Inquiry
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Understanding
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Awareness
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Growth
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Reflection
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1926
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