Ramana Maharshi Quotes

Psychology doesn't address the soul; that's something else.

The human soul is very much older than the human mind.

Body and soul. Two different things

The body is just the vehicle for something else.

The only substance properly so called is the soul.

I am Walter, a body, but more important than the body is my spirit.

The idea of spirituality is difficult to discuss.

I'm very interested in theories in how we exist: how people exist and how souls exist separate from their bodies or their brains.

That energy field can be called God, soul, spirit, or consciousness.

Mind is but a poor reflection of the radiant Heart.

You are not a human being. You are not your body, you are not your mind, and you are not your soul. These are things that You have. The You that has these things - indeed, that has given your Self these things - is far bigger than any of them, and even all of them put together.

The soul is a fire that darts its rays through all the senses; it is in this fire that existence consists; all the observations and all the efforts of philosophers ought to turn towards this ME, the centre and moving power of our sentiments and our ideas.

The soul is something which contains the body. The body doesn't contain the soul. The soul, if we put it into modern language, is the entire complex of relationships in whose context this organism exists.

In truth, you are spirit. The body has been projected by the mind, which itself originates from Spirit.

It’s not the body that people love, but the soul. The body is a temporary vehicle. Without the soul, the body is like a car without a driver. I see through my eyes, smell through my nose, taste through my tongue, hear through my ears, feel through my skin, think through my brain, and love through my heart. But who am I? Who is the witness, enjoyer and sufferer that activates my body?

Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul.

All we are is in the soul.

And if the body were not the soul, what is the soul?

What men call the shadow of the body is not the shadow of the body, but is the body of the soul.

The mind is the atmosphere of the soul.

Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.

We are more than just flesh and bones. There's a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we can't measure. We can't find it. With all our sophisticated equipment, we cannot monitor or define it, and yet it's there.

Only a spiritual being has awareness.

Human spirit, things that aren't tangible, fascinate me, so I'm always researching mind, spirit, soul.

The more science I studied, the more I saw that physics becomes metaphysics and numbers become imaginary numbers. The farther you go into science, the mushier the ground gets. You start to say, 'Oh, there is an order and a spiritual aspect to science.'