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If you hold this feeling of ‘I’ long enough and strongly enough, the false ‘I’ will vanish leaving only the unbroken awareness of the real, immanent ‘I’, consciousness itself

Ramana Maharshi

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Ramana Maharshi
Age: 70 †
Born: 1879
Born: December 31
Died: 1950
Died: April 14
Philosopher
Writer
Hold
Consciousness
Immanent
Feeling
Vanish
Feelings
Unbroken
Enough
Strongly
Real
False
Long
Leaving
Awareness

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