Ramana Maharshi Quotes

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

Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed.

We are what we think…With our thoughts we make the world.

I thought of a high school report I did on the Belgian artist Rene Magritte and a quote I once read from him, something about his favorite walk being the one he took around his own bedroom. He said that he never understood the need for people to travel because all the poetry and perspective you're ever going to get you already posses. Anais Nin had the same idea. We see the world as we are. So if it's the same brain we bring with us every time we open our eyes, what's the difference if we're looking at an island cove or a pocket watch?

We bring about a world in consciousness that is partly what is given, and partly what we bring, something that comes into being through this particular conjunction and no other. And the key to this is the kind of attention we pay to the world.

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

The individual point of view is the only point of view from which one is able to look at the world in its truth.

We can never be quite clear whether we are referring to the world as it is or to the world as we see it.

With our thoughts we make the world.

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.

The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want

I'm trying to get more into other things, where reality is nothing but each individual's way of thinking.

I am a man for whom the outside world exists.

We don't live in the world of reality, we live in the world of how we perceive reality.

The forms of my awareness are richer than yours.

The way we experience the world around us is a direct reflection of the world within us.

The real world is much smaller than the imaginary

The world is not outside you.

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.

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.

The world begins with what we believe.

The world consists of images on a screen, and consciousness is the steady light that emanates from the projector.

The world is out there, but descriptions of the world are not.

What you believe you experience.