Ramana Maharshi Quotes

I was born with a serious spiritual consciousness and for many years studied different paths.

Don't go to sleep now, for you have been awakened. Don't shut your eyes, or you will put out the light. Stay awake to the power and force that guides and protects your divine essence.

Listen to the inner light; it will guide you. Listen to inner peace; it will feed you. Listen to inner love; it will transform you, it will divinise you, it will immortalise you.

In an encounter with divine reality, we do not hear a voice but acquire a voice, and the voice we acquire is our own.

There is no teacher, living or past, who can give us the actual understanding of Truth. A teacher can only put our feet upon the path and point the way. That is all. It is wholly dependent on the individual to make his way to Truth.

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

My friend, God wants to throw a beam of light on your path today.

Every person, on coming to the knowledge of himself, is not only urged to seek God, but is also led as by the hand to find Him.

Scriptures are like packets of light that illuminate our minds and give place to guidance and inspiration from on high.

The process of gathering spiritual light is the quest of a lifetime.

Read the Bible and inspirational books for a purpose. Ask for divine guidance. Search for the light.

There are times, you know, it's said in the Spiritual Tradition, just a glimpse at an enlightened personage can convey immense information at the sub-conscious level that sprouts later, that we don't even know.

Just being the seeker, somebody whose open to spiritual enlightenment, is in itself the important thing and it's the reward for being a seeker in this world.

Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious - that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment.

As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha.

Remember, we are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

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.

My appointed work is to awaken the divine nature that is within.

The spiritual quest is not some added benefit to our life, something you embark on if you have the time and inclination. We are spiritual beings on an earthly journey. Our spirituality makes up our beingness.

This life is for us to discover the divine within. And that's really the key to life in many ways for me. And the thing is, it's not for us to reason why everything is what it is... just do it.

They should regard me as what I am. I am a spiritual leader and teacher.

Let the inner god that is in each one of us speak. The temple is your body, and the priest is your heart: it is from here that every awareness must begin.

The wound is the place where the light enters you.

I've always said that God will somehow enlighten me.

I open my mind and allow the Holy Spirit to come in.