Ramana Maharshi Quotes

Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.

The question 'Who am I?' is not really meant to get an answer, the question 'Who am I?' is meant to dissolve the questioner.

Silence is truth. Silence is bliss. Silence is peace. And hence Silence is the Self.

Why should you trouble yourself about the future? You do not even properly know about the present. Take care of the present, the future will take care of itself.

Thoughts come and go. Feelings come and go. Find out what it is that remains.

Your true nature is that of infinite spirit. The feeling of limitation is the work of the mind.

Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world.

If one's mind has peace, the whole world will appear peaceful.

All unhappiness is due to the ego. With it comes all your trouble. If you would deny the ego and scorch it by ignoring it you would be free.

No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.

Peace is the inner nature of humankind. If you find it within yourself, you will then find it everywhere.

The greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened.

Engage yourself in the living present. The future will take care of itself.

Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth.

The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.

A higher power is leading you; be led by the same. It knows what to do and how to do it.

Of all the thoughts that rise in the mind, the thought 'I' is the first thought.

As you are, so is the world.

Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.

We are so engrossed with the objects, or appearances revealed by the light, that we pay no attention to the light.

Have faith in God and in yourself; that will cure all. Hope for the best, expect the best, toil for the best and everything will come right for you in the end.

Turn your vision inward and then the whole world will be full of the Supreme Spirit.

The entire Universe is condensed in the body, and the entire body in the Heart. Thus the Heart is the nucleus of the whole Universe.

Without knowing the Knower, all the knowledge that one gathers cannot be valid.

You are the Supreme Being, and yet thinking yourself to be separate from it, you strive to become united with it. What is stranger than this?

Meditation depends upon the strength of mind. It must be unceasing even when one is engaged in work. Particular time for it is meant for novices.

The end of all wisdom is love, love, love.

Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.

You and I are the same. What I have done is surely possible for all. You are the Self now and can never be anything else. Throw your worries to the wind, turn within and find Peace.

Meditation is sticking to one thought. That single thought keeps away other thoughts; distraction of mind is a sign of its weakness; by constant meditation it gains strength.

When we turn the mind inwards, God manifests as the inner consciousness.

The self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself, within yourself.

By whatever path you go, you will have to lose yourself in the one. Surrender is complete only when you reach the stage 'Thou art all' and 'Thy will be done'.

Meditation helps concentration of the mind. Then the mind is free from thoughts and is in the meditated form.

Apart from the body does the world exist? Has anyone seen the world without the body?

Bliss is a thing which is always there and is not something which comes and goes. That which comes and goes is a creation of the mind.

The solution to your problem is to see who has it.

Realisation is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage

What comes will also go. What always is will alone remain.

Your duty is to Be, and not to be this or that.

Seeing God without seeing the Self, one sees only mental image. Only he who has seen Himself has seen God, since he has lost individuality, and now sees nothing but God.

Let what comes come, let what goes go.

True silence is really endless speech.

All activities and events that a body is to go through are determined at the time of conception.

Misery does not exist in reality but only in mere imagination.

You are already That which you seek.

Silence is also conversation.

There is nothing wrong with God's creation. Mystery and Suffering only exist in the mind.

What message is needed when heart speaks to heart?

Grace is ever present. All that is necessary is that you surrender to it.