Ramana Maharshi Quotes

Seek not abroad, for in the inner man dwells the truth.

If you cannot find the truth within yourself, where else do you expect to find it?

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

What you are looking for is within you

If you do not go within, you without

Why do you want to read others' books when there is the book of yourself?

He who looks without, dreams; he who looks within, awakes.

When you drop the ego, you drop a whole world that you have created around it. For the first time you are able to see things as they are - not as you would like them to be. And when you are capable of knowing the facts of life, you become capable of knowing the truth. The facility of life is the first step towards truth. And ego is the most falsifying agent.

Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.

Do not wander far and wide but return into yourself. Deep within man there dwells the truth.

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.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

People just overshoot trying to find God. They're going outside and trying everything. They don't realize that it's right inside themselves.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Nothing said to us, nothing we can learn from others, reaches us so deep as that which we find in ourselves.

The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.

I must find a truth that is true for me.

Focus your mind on what your Highest Self chooses to be.

Knowing yourself is to be rooted in Being, instead of lost in your mind.

The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.

Gently resist the temptation to chase your dreams into the world; pursue them in your heart until they disappear into the Self, and leave them there.

To know the whole world is nothing when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life.

Truth is not to be found outside. No teacher, no scripture can give it to you. It is inside you and if you wish to attain it, seek your own company. Be with yourself.

To truly know the world, look deeply within your own being; to truly know yourself, take real interest in the world.

Keep growing quietly and seriously throughout your whole development; you cannot disturb it more rudely than by looking outward and expecting from outside replies to questions that only your inmost feeling in your most hushed hour can perhaps answer.