Ramana Maharshi Quotes

My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god; I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We're all god.

The purpose of life is undoubtedly to know oneself. We cannot do it unless we learn to identify ourselves with all that lives. The sum-total of that life is God.

The question is not is there a God, but is there anything else except God? God is everyone and each of us is a little bit.

I see a sense of unity in the universe. Spirituality is not limited to only one religion. One can experience it across different religions. I am fascinated by philosophy of Advaita and philosophy of unity. We have to get over the illusion that God is different from us.

To know that you are God is another way of saying that you feel completely one with this universe.

Unity Consciousness is the experience of the 7 billion plus people on the planet being moved by the same force, which is God. It is the awareness to see what we really are: One Living Being. However, this is a truth that really can't be explained with words; the minute you say it, it is no longer truth.

God is not in Kaaba or in Kashi. He is within everyone of us.

Pray to yourself, because I'm in your self and you're in My self. We are one Spirit, saith the Lord.

If someone were to ask me whether I believed in God, or saw God, or had a particular relationship with God, I would reply that I don't separate God from my world in my thinking. I feel that God is everywhere. That's why I never feel separated from God or feel I must seek God, any more than a fish in the ocean feels it must seek water. In a sense, God is the "ocean" in which we live.

There is no higher or lower goal. There is only one goal, Self-Realization.

The Self itself is the world; the Self itself is 'I'; the Self itself is God; all is Siva, the Self.

The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

I have seen all souls as my soul, and realized my soul as the soul of all.

You and I are but specks of that rhythmic urge which is Brahma, which is Allah, which is God.

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

If God and man are in themselves one, and if religion is the human side of this unity then must this unity be made evident to man in religion, and become in him consciousness and reality.

There is not a separate God for each person. There is one universal intelligence flowing through all of us.

The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.

God is the same God for everybody: those in the church and those in the world.

Someone should tell the fundamentalists that even Advaita philosophy in Hinduism talks of oneness in all existence.

Personal and collective awakening are one and the same - when a raindrop joins the sea, the sea also merges with the raindrop.

Love said to me, there is nothing that is not me. Be silent.

We are just a little tiny flicker of a much larger flame that is Life itself, Consciousness itself, Being itself, Love itself, God’s very self.

Love and the self are one and the discovery of either is the realization of both.

The purpose of the heart is to know yourself, to be yourself, and yet one with God.