Ramana Maharshi Quotes

The self is known to every one but not clearly. You always exist.

All thought of something is at the same time self-consciousness [...] At the root of all our experiences and all our reflections, we find [...] a being which immediately recognises itself, [...] and which knows its own existence, not by observation and as a given fact, nor by inference from any idea of itself, but through direct contact with that existence. Self-consciousness is the very being of mind in action.

I am me, whatever that means. I am conscious.

I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.

We live our lives based on who we think we are.

Life learned early on to recognize itself.

The very act of questioning whether you exist proves you do, because you must be there for the doubt to be entertained in the first place.

I know if I'm lost in the moment or not.

To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.

If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am.

The self has the characteristic that it is an object to itself, and that characteristic distinguishes it from other objects and from the body.

I've always been very conscious of who I am.

I don't think I'm tangible to myself.

The answer is, who you are cannot be defined through thinking or mental labels or definitions, because it's beyond that. It is the very sense of being, or presence, that is there when you become conscious of the present moment. In essence, you and what we call the present moment are, at the deepest level, one.

I don't even know what my voice is to this day.

If you don't know yourself, you don't know your nature. If you don't know your nature, you don't know where to exist. By knowing your nature, knowing yourself, you know what to be and how to live. And that only comes from knowledge of self, knowing yourself.

You may return here once you have fully come to understand that you are always here.

To know nothing about yourself is to live. To know yourself badly is to think.

You are what you is, you is what you am, you ain't what you're not. So see what you got?

I see knowledge of self. I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me.

Previously, even in Egypt, men had not learned to see straight. They fumbled in the dark, and didn't quite know where they were, or what they were. Like men in a dark room, they only felt their existence surging in the darkness of other creatures. We, however, have learned to see ourselves for what we are, as the sun sees us. The Kodak bears witness.

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

The simple fact of existence, of being aware that you are aware; this to me is the most astounding fact.

We have to really educate ourselves in a way about who we are, what our real identity is.

For myself, I do not now know in any concrete human terms wherein my individuality consists. In my present human form of consciousness I simply cannot tell.