Ramana Maharshi Quotes

The only journey is the one within.

Be thou a true yogi. A yogi who understands that everything he's looking for is really inside himself. Learn to live more in the Self.

If you do not go within, you without

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.

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

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.

Self-awareness is a key to self-mastery

To study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the 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.

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.

I think and that is all that I am.

As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha.

The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.

What's in your soul is in your soul.

We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.

I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself.

Most of us don't spend any time knowing ourselves. We just keep reacting.

Enlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity.

We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.

My journey is not to be a star but to become as aware a person as possible.

Self-awareness is something that we actually actively avoid.

Focus your mind on what your Highest Self chooses to be.

To develop our real selves, we need time alone for thought and meditation. To be always giving out and never pumping in, the well runs dry.

There are moments when the inner life actually 'pays,' when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.