Ramana Maharshi Quotes

Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.

There is no other way to change something or someone for the better except to occupy it first. The only person you can occupy is yourself. That is why the only person who can change you for the better is you. Without your decision to change and your commitment to change, you will not change.

You may not seem able to change some outer circumstances but you can start by changing your inner experience of life and yourself.

If a man is to shed the light of the sun upon other men, he must first of all have it within himself.

When we keep claiming the light, we will find ourselves becoming more and more radiant.

The only thing one can usually change in one's situation is oneself. And yet one can't change that either-only ask Our Lord to do so.

I learnt one thing in the past or in my life: the only person you can change is yourself, and it has to come from within.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Social revolutions and group revolutions are good, and we need that, but we also need personal revolution - revolution within ourselves that change who we are as people.

Human improvement is from within outward.

Everybody wants to get enlightened but nobody wants to change.

I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.

Getting to know myself changed everything. It's the best thing I've ever done.

Taking back our light from those we’ve projected it onto opens the door to an unimaginable future.

Instead of looking for the right person become the right person.

Unless the inner changes, the outer can never be perfect.

If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself, if you want to eliminate the suffering in the world, then eliminate all that is negative in yourself. Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.

You don't need to change the world; you need to change yourself.

The change we are looking for is always a change within ourselves. And the change will come. I've noticed that as long as I'm willing to be different, something or someone arrives to show me how.

What we can and should change is ourselves: our impatience, our egoism (including intellectual egoism), our sense of injury, our lack of love and forbearance. I regard every other attempt to change the world, even if it springs from the best intentions, as futile.

You can often help others more by correcting your own faults than theirs. Remember, and you should, because of your own experience, that allowing God to correct your faults is not easy. Be patient with people, wait for God to work with them as He wills.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.

The only thing in the world you can change is yourself and that makes all the difference in the world.

To change what you get you must change who you are.

Nature, philosophy and social issues are the three things that always occupy my mind. You do not have any power over others but can only change yourself.