Ramana Maharshi Quotes

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

I think that what people imagine they're going through is much worse than what they are going through.

Fancy tortures more people than does reality

When you are mad, mad like this, you don't know it. Reality is what you see. When what you see shifts, departing from anyone else's reality, it's still reality to you.

We suffer more in imagination than in reality.

[D]oes the real world have any more substance than visions and hallucinations when we're having them? At any given moment, what's happening in our minds is all and everything that happens.

When you have spent an important part of your life playing Let's Pretend, it's often easy to see symbolism where none exists.

There's a very fine line between one person's reality and another person's fantasy.

Whatever happens in the world is real, what one thinks should have happened is projection. We suffer more from our fictitious illusion and expectations of reality.

Reality doesn't interest me.

Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.

In every story of solipsism, there is always a conspiracy. Why? Because there is always a background involved in every perception.

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that. If you call it time, it is time. If you call it existence, it is existence, and so on. After calling it time, you divide it into days and nights, months, years, hours, minutes, etc. Time is immaterial for the Path of Knowledge.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

I think truth is weirder than fiction.

The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.

As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.

I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?

Truth is always a delusion.

There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.

I think art is more glorious than life but not more real.

No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.