Ramana Maharshi Quotes

If I can learn how to rely on my own strength, I can see the answers to my problems usually lie right there, within the problem itself.

Grace is within you. If it were external, it would be useless.

We [people] have a teacher! The teacher is ourselves! We already know everything we need to know - our challenge is to discover that we know it. Turning to gurus, I think, we become guru-dependent, no different from drug-dependent, alcohol-dependent - needing an outside force to control our lives.

...One individual is his or her own best teacher, and no other idol or false image should be worshiped or adored because the God we are all seeking lies inside oneself, not outside.

Often, we feel that we need a leader outside of ourselves -a Buddha, a Gandhi, or a Martin Luther King, Jr.- to show the way. But we have the Buddha inside of us. We have Gandhi and King inside of us as well. We are interconnected. We don't need to wait for some other person to be the change we want to see in the world

I wish neither to possess nor to be possessed. I no longer covet 'paradise'. More important, I no longer fear 'hell'. The medicine for my suffering I had within me from the very beginning but I did not take it. My ailment came from within myself, but I did not observe it, until this moment. Now I see that I will never find the light unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel, consuming myself.

Self-realization means to know truth through yourself, and not through others. By seeking God first, through Self-realization, all things-strength, power, prosperity, wisdom, health, and immortality-will be added unto you.

The Ultimate Reality is that everything you think you need, you already have. It exists inside of you. Indeed, it is you. You are what you need - and therefore, you give yourself everything you need in any given moment.

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

I am my own Universe, I my own Professor.

Sometimes people look to others for answers they can find within themselves. I don't really want the responsibility of being the guy they look to.

For me, a happy ending is not everything works out just right and there is a big bow, it's more coming to a place where a person has a clear vision of his or her own life in a way that enables them to kind of throw down their crutches and walk.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

You come to realize that only one person can tell you what's expected of you, and that's you.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

Eventually, we reach the point where we start to realize that we are not going to find peace, contentment, happiness, strength, fearlessness - all of the things that in our heart of hearts we wish we had - outside of us.

You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You've got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It's all down to you, mate.

When you forget everything, there only remains yourself - and that is not enough.

You have to find it. No one else can find it for you.

I tell my son Corey that the greatest teacher is the teacher who says, 'Don't follow me; follow yourself. Because within you there is that kingdom, that life, that force.'

I am my own muse, the subject I know best.

What you are looking for is already in you...You already are everything you are seeking.

As you recognize that you already own the wholeness you seek, and no one outside you can give you more than you already are, dysfunctional situations will evaporate like bad dreams exposed to the morning sun.

To seek greatness outside yourself is turn your back on the treasure within.

I wonder why / no one ever told me / that the rainbow / and the treasure / were both within me.