Ramana Maharshi Quotes

'I Am' is the name of God, God is none other than the Self.

The place where even the slightest trace of the 'I' does not exist, alone is Self.

What exists in truth is the Self alone. The world, the individual soul and God are appearances in it. Like silver in mother-of-pearl, these three appear at the same time and disappear at the same time. The Self is that where there is absolutely no 'I thought'. That is called 'Stillness'. The Self itself is the world; the Self itself is 'I'; the Self itself is God; all is Siva, the Self.

To know that you are God is another way of saying that you feel completely one with this universe.

We are just a little tiny flicker of a much larger flame that is Life itself, Consciousness itself, Being itself, Love itself, God’s very self.

All of it is God, and there is nothing else.

Guru, God and Self are One

I am a part and parcel of God.

The mind turned inwards is the Self; turned outwards, it becomes the ego and all the world. Cotton made into various clothes we call by various names. Gold made into various ornaments, we call by various names. But all the clothes are cotton and all the ornaments gold. The one is real, the many are mere names and forms.

The ego of man and woman is the soul. If the soul is independent, how then can it be isolated from the infinite whole?

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.

I am God! I am nothing, I'm play, I am freedom, I am life. I am the boundary, I am the peak.

If there is anything besides the Self there is reason to fear? Who sees the second? First, the ego arises and sees objects as external. If the ego does not rise, the Self alone exists and there is no second.

The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

I know that you are part of me and I am part of you because we are all aspects of the same infinite consciousness that we call God and Creation.

My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god; I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We're all god.

You are the universe, you aren't in the universe.

If you're trained in metaphysics, you don't see the world as distinct from yourself. You are one with the world.

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.

In so far as we think, we are the all-one being that pervades everything.

What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.

Love and the self are one and the discovery of either is the realization of both.

Grace is not a strange, magic substance which is subtly filtered into our souls to act as a kind of spiritual penicillin. Grace is unity, oneness within ourselves, oneness with God.

On the vaporization and the centralization of the Self. All is there.

Over time, years of meditation gave me glimpses of the interconnectedness and interdependence of all life. I experienced that on one level we are alone, separate, apart from everyone and everything; on another level, we are the Self in different disguises, different names and forms, a part of everyone and everything. This experience of interconnectedness is part of spiritual traditions and the perennial wisdom in virtually all religions and cultures.