Ramana Maharshi Quotes

Every one of us is the sum total of his own thoughts

You don't really see yourself doing things, of course, but you feel.

How do you know, right now, that you are aware of being aware, or conscious?

I can't turn off the way I think, and that's essentially who I am, who anybody is.

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

If you are aware, you speak with awareness. But the awareness comes from the inward being. It flows from the inner being towards others.

Become a witness to your thoughts.

Knowing who you are begins in the mind.

You are the imagination of yourself.

When we were children, there was a silent part of us watching the child. When we were adolescents, there was that same witness watching the adolescent. Middle age, and so on. Every one, now and again, has discovered the self, the one who is watching.

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

You don't need to condemn. Just observe, That is sin. That is insanity. That is unconsciousness. Above all, don't forget to observe your own mind. Seek out the root of the insanity there.

The sight of one's own heart is degrading; people are not meant to look inward - that's why they've been given bodies, to hide their souls.

Of all the thoughts that rise in the mind, the thought 'I' is the first thought.

Self-awareness includes awareness of your mental realm, which encompasses your thoughts, feelings, energy, and emotions.

I'm not always what I think I am, but I am what I think.

Self-awareness is probably overrated. A complex, self-regulating system doesn't need it in order to be successful, or even smart.

When you first awaken or before drifting off to sleep, quiet your mind, lift up your heart, muse, mull over, make discoveries. Consider, conceive, create, connect, concede that it all starts within.

I am the thought you are now thinking.

The consciousness that says 'I am' is not the consciousness that thinks.

Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.

Once the current of awareness of the self is set afoot, it becomes everlasting and continuous by intensification.

I wasn't paying enough attention to what my heart was telling me. When I paid attention and got the message, I could move forward and heal.

Inward is not a direction. Inward is a dimension.

We are one of only three species on our planet that can claim to be self-aware, yet self-delusion may be a more significant characteristic of our kind.