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Just before waking up from sleep, there is a very brief state, free from thought. 

That should be made permanent.

In dreamless sleep there is no world, no ego and no unhappiness, but the Self remains.

In the waking state there are all of these. 

Yet there is the Self. 

One has only to remove the transitory happenings in order to realize the ever-present beatitude of the Self.

Your nature is bliss. Find that on which all the rest are imposed and you then remain as the pure Self.

In sleep there is no space or time. They are concepts, which arise after the ‘I-thought’ has arisen. You are beyond time and space. The ‘I-thought’ is the limited ‘I’. The real ‘I’ 

is unlimited, universal, beyond time and space. 

Just while rising from sleep and before seeing the objective world, there is a state of awareness which is your Pure Self. That must be known.

- Sri Ramana Maharishi.  Gems.