Ramana Maharshi Quotes

That which is nearest is least observed. The Atman is the nearest of the near, therefore the careless and the unsteady mind gets no clue to it. But the person who is alert, calm, self-restrained, and discriminating ignores the external world and, diving more and more into the inner world, realizes the glory of the Atman and becomes great.

Self-inquiry is the process and the goal also. 'I am' is the goal and the final reality. To hold to it with effort is self-inquiry. When spontaneous and natural it is realization.

Dive into your heart center. Sit in the silence. Desire self-realization with all your heart, with all your mind, and all your soul. Everything will take care of itself.

You should stop searching for phrases and chasing after words. Take the backward step and turn the light inward. Your body-mind of itself will drop off and your original face will appear. If you want to attain just this, immediately practice just this.

Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.

The only journey is the one within.

Gail Sheehy tells us that "the delights of self-discovery are always available." All Fools' Day is the perfect day to engrave this wisdom in our hearts.

The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else.

When your consciousness is directed outward, mind and world arise. When it is directed inward, it realises its own Source and returns home into the Unmanifested.

Become aware of the silent witness that is observing the unfolding of all the external events of your life. This eternal presence is your true Self.

Once you've started down that road to self-discovery, no matter how treacherous the path before you, you can't turn back. The universe doesn't allow it.

Do not look for Jesus away from yourselves. He is not out there; He is in you. Keep your lamp burning, and you will recognize him.

There is no mind to control if you realise the self. The mind having vanished, the self shines forth. In the realised man, the mind may be active or inactive, the self remains for him.

He who looks without, dreams; he who looks within, awakes.

All the great teachers have left a similar message: Go within, discover your invisible higher self and know God as the love that is within you.

Dive deep into the chambers of your heart. Find out the real, infinite 'I'. Rest there peacefully for ever and become identical with the Supreme Self.

I used to be too subjective, and I was always tempted to find my inner self in the exterior and dissipate my imagination on other people and on life.

Satori - in the awakening from a dream. Awakening and self-realization and seeing into one's own being - these are synonymous.

Pour out wine till I become a wanderer from myself; for in selfhood and existence I have felt only fatigue.

Come to the Root of the Root of your Self

You may go on reading any number of books on Meditation. They can only tell you ‘Realize the Self’. The Self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself in yourself.

Solitude is the furnace of transformation. Without solitude we remain victims of our society and continue to be entangled in the illusions of the false self.

If I do not go within, I go without.

One's own self is well hidden from one's own self; of all mines of treasure, one's own is the last to be dug up.

Oh, wandering One, if you are in search of the greatest treasure, don't look outside. Look within, and seek That.