# Quote — Ramana Maharshi, Be As You Are

> Since you are awareness there is no need to attain or cultivate it. All that you have to do is to give up being aware of other things, that is of the not-Self. If one gives up being aware of them then pure awareness alone remains, and that is the Self.

- Author: [Ramana Maharshi](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ramana-maharshi.md)
- Book: [Be As You Are](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ramana-maharshi/be-as-you-are.md)
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## More from this book

> The srutis [scriptures] speak of the Self as being the size of one's thumb, the tip of the hair, an electric spark, vast, subtler than the subtlest, etc. They have no foundation in fact. It is only being, but different from the real and the unreal; it is knowledge, but different from knowledge and ignorance. How can it be defined at all? It is simply being.

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> The reality which shines fully, without misery and without a body, not only when the world is known but also when the world is not known, is your real form [nija-swarupa].

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ramana-maharshi/be-as-you-are/the-reality-which-shines.md)

> The Self That in which all these worlds seem to exist steadily, that of which all these worlds are a possession, that from which all these worlds rise, that for which all these exist, that by which all these worlds come into existence and that which is indeed all these - that alone is the existing reality. Let us cherish that Self, which is the reality, in the Heart.

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