Ramana Maharshi Quotes

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Self-inquiry is the process and the goal also. 'I am' is the goal and the final reality. To hold to it with effort is self-inquiry. When spontaneous and natural it is realization.

Those who practice know whether realization is attained or not, just as those who drink water know whether it is hot or cold

The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

I look for characters that speak to something in me.

What you are is a question only you can answer.

What a liberation to realize that the 'voice in my head' is not who I am. 'Who am I, then?' The one who sees that.

Begin within. If it shows up in your life, it's coming to tell you something about you that you're acting like you don't know. Something about yourself, or your relationship with God.

If you cannot find the truth within yourself, where else do you expect to find it?

Study what thou art Whereof thou art a part What thou knowest of this art This is really what thou art. All that is without thee also is within.

We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.

Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts.

Nothing said to us, nothing we can learn from others, reaches us so deep as that which we find in ourselves.

What we earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.

Whatever you are inside, the good and bad will manifest in the outside world. It will come out in some way. It will come out in your work. It will come out in words. It will come out.

I just want to be the greatest man that I can be while I'm alive, and in that, you have to find the truth. Find the hard truth about yourself.

I know what works for me.

Do stuff that is true to your own experiences.

What we are, the experiences we've had, come to the surface.

I think 'Lost Boy' is more of a metaphor for oneself. When I listen to that song, I don't picture someone else. I kind of wrote it from a very honest place.

Your life is a mirror. Life gives us not what we want. Life gives us who we are

Meditation will drop all the masks. It is a search for the original face.

What you seek, you already are.

Life is a constant challenge to know oneself.