Ramana Maharshi Quotes

Those who practice know whether realization is attained or not, just as those who drink water know whether it is hot or cold

The awakened heart and mind can be experienced as clarity itself, pure knowing.

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

Meditation is one of the ways in which the spiritual man keeps himself awake.

Meditation is the eye that sees the Truth, the heart that feels the Truth and the soul that realises the Truth.

Self awakening enables you to see the human scene as it is, not as it appears to be, which frees you of its chaos.

The idea of Buddha consciousness is that all beings are Buddha beings, and your whole function in meditation and everything else is to find that Buddha consciousness within and live out of that, instead of the interests of the eyes and ears.

It's well known I'm a Scientologist, and that has helped me to find that inner peace in my life and it's something that has given me great stability and tools that I use.

We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.

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

We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.

I have been meditating for 40 years. It makes it a bit easier to know who you are.

When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself. When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world. Your innermost sense of self, of who you are, is inseparable from stillness. This is the I Am that is deeper than name and form.

Meditation isn't to disappear into the light. Meditation is to see all of what we are.

By constantly keep one's attention on the Source, the ego is dissolved in that Source like a salt-doll in the sea.

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

Meditation allows us to directly participate in our lives instead of living life as an afterthought.

There are six senses: five are outer; they tell you about the world. I say something about the light; without eyes you will not know light. Ears say something about the sound; without ears you will not know anything about the sound. There is a sixth sense, the inner sense, that shows and tells you something about yourself and the ultimate source of things. That sense has to be discovered. Meditation is nothing but the discovery of the inner sense.

How can one become enlightened? One can, because one is enlightened - one just has to recognize the fact.

Sannyas is only a declaration. The work is meditation. In one single word, my religion is complete, and that is meditation.

Enlightenment is nothing but your consciousness being concentrated on a single point - now and here.

And everyone who wills can hear the Voice. It is within every one. But like everything else it requires previous and definite preparation.

You are awareness. Awareness is another name for you. Since you are awareness there is no need to attain or cultivate it. All that you have to do is to give up being aware of other things, that is of the not-Self. If one gives up being aware of them then pure awareness alone remains, and that is the Self.

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