Love is not different from the Self.
Love of an object is of an inferior order and cannot endure.
Whereas the Self is Love, in other words, God is Love.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
Thus the Heart is the nucleus of the whole universe. This world is not other than the mind, the mind is not other than the Heart; that is the whole truth.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
The only useful purpose of the present birth is to turn within and realise it. There is nothing else to do.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
HEART
IN THE CENTRE OF THE CAVITY OF THE HEART
the sole Brahman shines by itself as the Atman (Self) in the feeling of ‘I-I’. Reach the Heart by diving within yourself, either with control of breath, or with thought concentrated on the quest of the Self.
You will thus get fixed in the Self. I have been saying all along that the Heart Centre is on the right side, even when learned men differed from me. I speak from experience. I knew it even in my home during my trances (samadhi). Again during the incident recorded in SelfRealization, I had a very clear vision and experience. All of a sudden a light came from one side erasing the world-vision. I felt that the heart on the left had stopped and the body became blue and inert. Vasudeva Sastri embraced the body and wept over my death, but I could not speak. All the time I was feeling that the Heart Centre on the right was working as well as ever. This state lasted fifteen or twenty minutes. Then suddenly something shot out from the right to the left like a rocket bursting into the sky. The blood resumed circulation and the normal condition of the body was restored.
The entire universe is condensed in the body and the entire body in the Heart. Thus the Heart is the nucleus of the whole universe. This world is not other than the mind, the mind is not other than the Heart; that is the whole truth.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
0 mind,
it is not wise for you to come out
[in the form of thoughts];
it is best to go within.
Hide yourself deep within the Heart and escape from the tricks of Maya, who tries to upset you by drawing you outwards.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
If you want to hold the beautiful One, hold yourself to yourself.
#Rumi
Looking at my life I see, that only Love has been my soul's companion.
#Rumi
Where the water of life flows, no illness remains.
In the garden of union, no thorn remains.
They say there's a door between one heart and another.
How can there be a door where no wall remains?
#Rumi
With love you cannot bargain there, the choice is not yours.
Love is a mirror, it reflects only your essence,
if you have the courage to look in its face.
To the parched lips of those who are willing to surrender.
Love will bring the wine that changes darkness into vision, cruelty into compassion and dust into precious incense.
Love means to reach for the sky and with every breath to tear a hundred veils.
Love means to step
away from the ego, to open the eyes of inner vision and not to take this world so seriously.
#Rumi
Through your grace I have found a treasure in myself.
#Rumi
Love is the sea where intellect drowns.
Rumi