Ramana Maharshi

This reading was my favorite. I really liked Ramana Maharshi and everything he had to say. I liked reading all his different thoughts about things.
“Reality is simply the loss of the ego. Destroy the ego by seeking its identity. It will automatically vanish and reality will shine forth by itself.” I think he’s trying to say that most people are mostly thinking about everything physical, whether it’s your own physical appearance or all the things money can buy you. But happiness doesn’t come from anything physical. I think if you can truly let go of only thinking about yourself, then it’ll be easier to find happiness.
“Silence is perennial flow of language, interrupted by words.” I think that line is so clever. Thoughts are always going on through everyone’s head, but when you start talking, the flow of your thoughts come to a stop to focus on the conversation. I think that’s why people that don’t have many friends or keep to themselves a lot more than others start talking about things that either seem weird to us or things that we’ve never really thought about before because they have more time to think than people who are constantly talking.