Ramana Maharshi Quotes

The illusion is we are only physical.

The mind, whatever else it is, is a constant of everyone's experience, and, in more ways than we know, the creator of the reality that we live within... Nothing is more essential to us.

Without consciousness, space and time are nothing.

I can feel this heart inside me and I conclude it exists. I can touch this world and I also conclude that it exists. All my knowledge ends at this point. The rest is hypothesis.

The physical universe that you see is all in your mind. When you turn your mind off, or become unconscious, the physical universe, for you, disappears. Then, when you awaken your consciousness, the universe reappears magically. Quite simple really - no thoughts on your part, no physical world. As Walt Whitman succinctly stated: "The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual - namely to You." Without your mind to process it, the universe simply disappears into nothingness.

You can't have a universe without the mind entering into it.

When anything is present to the mind, what is the very first and simplest character to be noted in it, in every case, no matter how little elevated the object may be? Certainly, it is its presentness .

Life is consciousness.

We are actually fourth dimensional beings in a third dimensional body inhabiting a second dimensional world!

Without consciousness there would, practically speaking, be no world, for the world exists as such only in so far as it is consciously reflected and considered by a psyche. Consciousness is a precondition of being.

The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions.

What is the subject of our thought? Experience! Nothing else!

Time is the element that controls the consciousness, the very being of the people.

The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness.

The world is real. Consciousness is the illusion.

Life is but thought.

Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.

Einstein said, if everything exists as a substance of qualities, and qualities exist only in mind, then all is mind.

The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one. The barrier between them cannot be said to have broken down as a result of recent experience in the physical sciences, for this barrier does not exist.

Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.

I--this thought which is called I--is the mould into which the world is poured like melted wax.

The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.

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

One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.

This impure world that we presently experience exists only in relation to our impure mind.