Ramana Maharshi Quotes

Sannyas is only a declaration. The work is meditation. In one single word, my religion is complete, and that is meditation.

I've been on a quest for spiritual answers for a long time. The things I've learned about interconnectedness and non-duality and the feeling of tapping into your soul that goes beyond the edge of your skin is important to me. Once I learned that, I'm far less often trapped in my own little man problems. Me against the universe problems.

To be conscious of Being, you need to reclaim consciousness from the mind. This is one of the most essential tasks on your spiritual journey.

While doing sadhana you must quieten your mind and keep awake the Purusha consciousness behind all your activities.

The objective of spiritual advancement is not so much 'works' but the quality of life free from ego-consciousness.

Spiritual practices help us move from identifying with the ego to identifying with the soul. Old age does that for you too. It spiritualizes people naturally.

Meditation is not growth of the ego, it is death of the ego.

The mind is only a bundle of thoughts. The thoughts have their root in the I-thought. Whoever investigates the True "I" enjoys the stillness of bliss.

Desire disappears as you become more and more aware. When awareness is one hundred percent, there is no desire at all.

Awareness and ego cannot coexist.

Enlightenment is ego's ultimate disappointment.

Meditation... dissolves the mind. It erases itself. Throws the ego out on its big brittle ass.

Our ego never wants to die and it will do anything to prolong its life. But the truth is, we are both spirit and ego and you have to have a balance between the two. Your spirit never dies, but the ego is all about beginnings and ends.

The biggest ego trip is getting rid of your ego, and of course the joke of it all is that your ego does not exist.

The guru is just trying to help you, to bring you to a point where you can at least surrender the ego. Then a deep ecstasy will happen between you and your master. Wherever there is a 'let-go', ecstasy happens - that is the law.

Generally, people who are not self-realized are full of themselves. One who is self-realized sees that the whole world is full of one.

Even great travelers of the inner world have got stuck in beautiful experiences, and have become identified with those experiences, thinking, "I have found myself." They have stopped before reaching the final stage where all experiences disappear. Enlightenment is not an experience.

You cannot fight against the ego and win, just as you cannot fight against darkness. The light of consciousness is all that is necessary. You are that light.

Meditation is such a more substantial reality than what we normally take to be reality.

Music is not the only reason that I practice Buddhism anymore because it has affected my whole life.

Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act.

Rajneeshism is creating a Noah's Ark of consciousness, remaining centered exactly in the middle of the cyclone. You can only escape within, and that's what I teach. I do not teach worship of God or any other ritual but only a scientific way of coming to your innermost core.

The deeper you get into Yoga you realize it is a spiritual practice. It's a journey I'm making. I'm heading that way.

The word 'yoga' means union. It's like everything in yoga yokes or unites you to something higher, the highest part of yourself.

The ego always needs to be 'doing,' and repeating a mantra guides my mind to a deeper, less active experience.