Ramana Maharshi Quotes

Spiritually, no action is more important than surrender. Surrender is the tenderest impulse of the heart, acting out of love to give whatever the beloved wants. Surrender is being alert to exactly what is happening now, not imposing expectations from the past. Surrender is faith that the power of love can accomplish anything, even when you cannot foresee the outcome of a situation.

I'd realize it's not worth our time to worry. You do your best, and God will put the right people in your path.

I know that for me I have to get out of the way and let God take control.

When you meditate or pray... both are forms of meditation... you give up control and find the answer and you open yourself to receive God's gift, the universal force, or whatever that is.

I say a prayer several times a day about what I can control and what I can't control.

You are accepted. You are accepted, accepted by that which is greater than you, and the name of which you do not know. Do not ask for the name now; perhaps you will find it later. Do not try to do anything now; perhaps later you will do much. Do not seek for anything; do not perform anything; do not intend anything. Simply accept the fact that you are accepted!

We hold that man is never so near grace as when he begins to feel he can do nothing at all.

There is no moment that isn't equivalent in value to any other moment. You have to surrender the little mind to the big mind, and turn what you want over to God.

Let me not fuss and fret at my incompetence but be still and know that Thou art God.

A certain giving up of control is good for the soul.

Let God operate in thee; Hand the work over to Him and do not disquiet thyself as to whether or no He is working with nature or above nature, for His are both nature and grace.

No matter what is going on, everything is grace.

God, give me grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed.

Don't try to live. Let yourself be lived.

Let go and let God. Let Him take over your life and run it. He knows how.

Make sure that you let God's grace work in your souls by accepting whatever He gives you, and giving Him whatever He takes from you. True holiness consists in doing God's work with a smile.

Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.

Dear Lord, I'm so grateful I'm still loved.

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.

Surrender to life itself and you'll just be rewarded with so many things. And I've been rewarded so many times, in so many mysterious ways. So I have no reason to be disappointed with anything.

If we can remain present and deal with the moment in front of us, no matter what our battle, then if we lose, we'll know that ultimately we weren't supposed to win that battle in the first place.

The truth is that you can only come to know God when you give up the past and the future in your mind and merge totally into the now, because God is always here now.

Think of God; attachments will gradually drop away. If you wait till all desires disappear before starting your devotion and prayer, you will have to wait for a very long time indeed.

Dear Lord, please show me everything I need to understand about forgiveness and surrender

God doesn't want something from us. He simply wants us.