Ramana Maharshi Quotes

Whatever be the means adopted, you must at last return to the Self, so why not abide as the Self here and now?

Truth is pure awareness.

The Self is the one Reality that always exists, and it is by the light of the Self that all other things are seen.

NOW is the only reality. All else is either memory or imagination.

Divine mind is the one and only reality.

I secretly think reality exists so we can speculate about it.

The fact that one can lose one's sense of self in an ocean of tranquility does not mean that one's consciousness is immaterial or that it presided over the birth of the universe.

Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.

You have to live in reality: not in what might happen but what is happening.

My spiritual practice reminds me of what's really real, what's really hood.

If the mind wants to comprehend reality, it will have to come out of the past and the future. But coming out of the past and the future, it is no longer the mind at all. Hence the insistence of all the great masters of the world that the door to reality is no-mind.

It's all real and it's all illusory: that's Awareness!

And since the now is all there ever is in your life, your entire life unfolds as the present moment. People don't realize it, but all they ever have is "this". This moment.

This is the first, wildest, and wisest thing I know, that the soul exists, and that it is built entirely out of attention.

You are not your body; you are not your brain, not even your mind. You are Spirit. All you have to do is reawaken to the memory, to remember.

Earth and heaven are in us

Being is accessible to you now as your own deepest self, your true nature. But don't seek to grasp it with your mind. Don't try to understand it. You can know it only when the mind is still. When you are present, when your attention is fully and intensely in the Now, Being can be felt, but it can never be understood mentally.

I love the fact that the present is the only real reality we have.

Our identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are.

Our thoughts are always pulling us into the future or the past, away from the present. But it is in the present moment that we find Spirit, our essential being and the force that animates all life.

And what is the primary datum? It's the felt presence of immediate experience. In other words, being here now is the primary datum.

I am all that there is of the most real.

For the ego to survive, it must make time - past and future - more important than the present moment.

Your soul isn't in your body; your body is in your soul!