Ramana Maharshi Quotes

You must direct your full, intense concentration on the heart. You must feel that you are not the mind. You have to feel that you are growing into the heart. You are only the heart and nothing else.

Contemplating an object fixedly with the mind, asking myself, 'What is it?' without thinking of any other object or relating it to anything else for hours on end.

I meditate two hours a day, and every year I do one big long meditation course. I love it, and I'm really into it.

My earliest experiences in meditation were in a context of intensive retreats.

I usually meditate twice a day: Transcendental Meditation.

Meditation is a regular part of my day, every day.

I meditate twice a day, T.M., and do yoga and tai chi.

Silence is one of the deepest Disciplines of the Spirit, simply because it puts the stopper on all self-justificat ion

The powers of the mind should be concentrated and the mind turned back upon itself; as the darkest places reveal their secrets before the penetrating rays of the sun, so will the concentrated mind penetrate its own innermost secrets.

The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings.

Meditation depends upon the strength of mind. It must be unceasing even when one is engaged in work. Particular time for it is meant for novices.

One of the main differences between silent meditation and chanting is that silent meditation is rather dependent on concentration, but when you chant, it's more of a direct connection with God.

Transcendental Meditation is a mental technique, so you travel to this field through subtler levels of mind, and then subtler levels of intellect, and then, at the border of intellect, you transcend and experience it.

Our minds are forced to become fixed upon different things by an attraction in them which we cannot resist. To control the mind, to place it just where we want it, requires special training. It cannot be done in any other way. In the study of religion the control of the mind is absolutely necessary. We have to turn the mind back upon itself in this study.

And truly, O man, if you concentrate hard on the state you are in it will be surprising if you have time for anything else.

People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any form that would require me to stop talking for three hours.

I'd like to learn to meditate with more enthusiasm. I can sit down and get quiet for 20 minutes, but it just has not been a part of my Christianity at all.

To meditate is to familiarise our mind constantly and thoroughly with a virtuous object.

For me, writing is a way of thinking. I write in a journal a lot. I'm a very impatient person, so writing and meditation allow me to slow down and watch my mind; they are containers that keep me in place, hold me still.

I just can't sit still and meditate; that doesn't kind of work for me. I don't even know exactly what it means.

I meditate and pray before going onstage - it helps me focus.

Meditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your highest self.

With no faith, purely as a scientific experiment, I started meditating and watched if it changed my music. It did, but it didn't make it more mellow. It made it easier to get into the flow of creativity.

We tend to think of meditation in only one way. But life itself is a meditation.

I am particularly drawn to the form of meditation called Japa. I know it works.