Ramana Maharshi Quotes

You believe that you live in the world, where in fact the world lives within you.

it is in our minds that we live much of our life.

There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself.

Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

I'm a man for whom the outside world is an inner Reality.

All our interior world is reality, and that, perhaps, more so than our apparent world.

The world you see outside of you will always be a reflection of what you have inside of you.

The forms of my awareness are richer than yours.

I have never experienced another human being. I have experienced my impressions of them.

The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.

We live within this reality we create, and we're quite unaware of how we create the reality. So the work is often a general koan into how we go about forming this world in which we live, in particular with seeing.

Where are my sensations? They have melted into... me, and what is this me, this self, but the sum of these evaporated sensations?

Though the eye is small, the soul which sees through it is greater and vaster than all the things which it perceives. In fact, it is so great that it includes all objects, however large or numerous, within itself. For it is not so much that you are within the cosmos as that the cosmos is within you.

We all know what we know. We experience with our minds and breath.

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

We are concerned with similar states of consciousness and relationship to the world.. ..If previous abstractions paralleled the scientific and objective preoccupations of our times, ours are finding a pictoral equivalent for man's new knowledge and consciousness of his more complex inner self.

I was the world in which I walked.

A conscious mind is a mind with a self in it.

The reality is in this head. Mine. I'm the projector at the planetarium, all the closed little universe visible in the circle of that stage is coming out of my mouth, eyes, and sometimes other orifices also.

We are in our Self. We are not in the world.

You are the knowing, not the condition that is known.

As you are, so is the world.

What happens behind your eyes is more important than what happens in front of them. This is a reversal from the way that we have been taught and the way that we had experienced the world as five sensory humans.