If I could leave you with just one message, it is this: the peace you are seeking is not something distant or outside of you. It is within you, right here and now. The Self, your true nature, is pure awareness, untouched by the mind, thoughts, or the external world. It is always present, waiting for you to turn inward and recognize it.

Ramana Maharshi was a sage from Southern India, who led a very interesting life. And when I say interesting I don’t mean that he travelled a lot, or that he moved in exalted circles. Nor did he have spectacular hobbies, or write best-selling books. No, his life was interesting exactly because he didn’t do any of these things. His only focus was inward, towards what he called “the Self”, which sustained and nurtured him to the degree that there was nothing else he wanted from life.

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