Ramana Maharshi Quotes

Grace is within you. Grace is your self. Grace is not something to be acquired from others. If it is external, it is useless. All that is necessary is to know its existence is in you. You are never out of its operation.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates.

You are goodness and mercy and compassion and understanding. You are peace and joy and light. You are forgiveness and patience, strength and courage, a helper in time of need, a comforter in time of sorrow, a healer in time of injury, a teacher in times of confusion. You are the deepest wisdom and the highest truth; the greatest peace and the grandest love. You are these things. And in moments of your life you have known yourself to be these things. Choose now to know yourself as these things always.

Self-realization means to know truth through yourself, and not through others. By seeking God first, through Self-realization, all things-strength, power, prosperity, wisdom, health, and immortality-will be added unto you.

Work on your stony qualities and become resplendent like the ruby. Practice self-denial and accept difficulty. Always see infinite life in letting the self die. Your stoniness will decrease; your ruby nature will grow. The signs of self-existence will leave your body, and ecstasy will take you over.

I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.

Try to be like the turtle - at ease in your own shell.

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

My faith did not require beauty or belonging - the deeper I went into my practice, the less it required at all.

The song 'Wolf Eyes,' I wrote because I felt like I was such a kitten. I want to be more of a wolf. I want to be stronger and more independent. I sort of wrote the song for that.

Everyone has some kind of light inside them.

If I can learn how to rely on my own strength, I can see the answers to my problems usually lie right there, within the problem itself.

What you are looking for is already in you...You already are everything you are seeking.

Not to borrow the strength of another, nor to rely on one's own strength; to cut off past and future thoughts, and not to live within the everyday mind... then the Great Way is right before your eyes.

I don't need money, or, better, it's not money that I need; it's not even power; I need only what is obtained by power and simply cannot be obtained without power: the solitary and calm awareness of strength! That is the fullest definition of freedom, which the world so struggles over!

We all have within us the ability to move from struggle to grace.

Invincibility depends on one's self; the enemy's vulnerability on him.

It is your holy work, to deeply love, honor and respect the precious self that you are, the soul that only you hold.

I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.

The faculty of self-help is that which distinguished man from animals; that it is the Godlike element, or holds within itself the Godlike element, of his constitution.

[S]tand aside and watch the working of the divine power in yourself.

Accumulate power in silence and become a dynamo of spirituality.

I am one with the power and wisdom of the Universe. I have all that I need.

Now, nothing should be able to harm a man except himself. Nothing should be able to rob a man at all. What a man really has, is what is in him. What is outside of him should be a matter of no importance.