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Bhagavan Sri Ramana says,

Watch the mind. You must stand aloof from it. You are not the mind. And the Self will remain ever. (Talk 264)

 The Self is ever there, there is nothing without it. Be the Self and the desires and doubts will disappear. You are the Self. You are already That. (Talk 251)

 Such Self is the witness in sleep, dream and waking states of existence. These states belong to the ego. The Self transcends even the ego. Nothing but the Self exists. (Talk 13)  He [Self] is asesha sakshi (all-seeing witness, or witness of all). (Talk 341) 

 You are the witness of jagrat (waking), svapna (dream) and sushupti (sleep) - rather, they pass before you.  (Talk 297)  

 It is like a cinema-show. There is the light on the screen and the pictures are only shadows passing over the screen. They make their appearance; move forward and backward; change from one to another; are therefore unreal, whereas the screen all along remains unchanged. (Talk 353)

 You are the screen, the Self has created the ego, the ego has its accretions of thoughts which are displayed as the world, the trees, plants, etc. ... In reality, all these are nothing but the Self.

 Our very experience of the jagrat (waking) and the swapna (dream) states proves that the Consciousness as the Self underlies all the five states, remains perfect all along and witnesses all of them [as they change from one to another]. 

 The Self is the basis of all the experiences. It remains as the witness and the support of them all.(Talk 617) You are an unchanging and continuous being who remains in all these states which are constantly changing and therefore transient. But you are always there. (Talk 653)

 The Reality is thus different from the three states, the waking, the dream and the deep sleep. (Talk 617) [that are all deemed unreal as they are not permanent states]. Atma (Self) is unchanging and uniform. (Talk 647) 

You are unchanging and eternal. That is what you should know. Perfect Bliss is Brahman. Perfect Peace is of the Self. That alone exists and is conscious. (Talk 28) That is what you are. (Talk 653)