Ramana Maharshi Quotes

The mind turned inwards is the Self; turned outwards, it becomes the ego and all the world. Cotton made into various clothes we call by various names. Gold made into various ornaments, we call by various names. But all the clothes are cotton and all the ornaments gold. The one is real, the many are mere names and forms.

The Self itself is the world; the Self itself is 'I'; the Self itself is God; all is Siva, the Self.

Generally, people who are not self-realized are full of themselves. One who is self-realized sees that the whole world is full of one.

If there is anything besides the Self there is reason to fear? Who sees the second? First, the ego arises and sees objects as external. If the ego does not rise, the Self alone exists and there is no second.

There is no self.

The true self is not aware that it is a self. A bird, as it sings, sings itself. But not according to a picture. It has no idea of itself.

Our identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are.

On the vaporization and the centralization of the Self. All is there.

'I Am' is the name of God, God is none other than the Self.

The Sage has no thinking mind and therefore there are no ‘others’ for him.

The ego of man and woman is the soul. If the soul is independent, how then can it be isolated from the infinite whole?

There is no higher or lower goal. There is only one goal, Self-Realization.

But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is. If you awaken from this illusion, and you understand that black implies white, self implies other, life implies death - or shall I say, death implies life - you can conceive yourself.

True self is non-self, the awareness that the self is made only of non-self elements. There's no separation between self and other, and everything is interconnected. Once you are aware of that you are no longer caught in the idea that you are a separate entity.

I've been on a quest for spiritual answers for a long time. The things I've learned about interconnectedness and non-duality and the feeling of tapping into your soul that goes beyond the edge of your skin is important to me. Once I learned that, I'm far less often trapped in my own little man problems. Me against the universe problems.

Strictly speaking, "you" cannot become enlightened, because who you take yourself to be is like a ripple in the ocean of consciousness - or a little wave if you're a VIP - and the ripple doesn't become enlightened until it realizes that its ripple-identity is ultimately a misperception, that it is the ocean taking on a fleeting ripple-form.

Love and the self are one and the discovery of either is the realization of both.

Take away all your labels and you are the Infinite Being.

Transcendent Oneness does not require self-examination, self-help, or self-work. It requires self-loss.

There isn't any me. I'm you. Don't make up a separate me.

As long as I am this or that, I am not all things.

The Seeker himself becomes the knower. The thing to be known is already there. There is nothing to be known afresh. More-over there are no two things. There is only the seer, the knower.

Can you dissolve your ego? Can you abandon the idea of self and other? Can you relinquish the notions of male and female, short and long, life and death? Can you let go of all these dualities and embrace the Tao without skepticism or panic? If so, you can reach the heart of the Integral Oneness.

There is no holy life. There is no war between good and evil. There is no sin and no redemption. None of these things matter to the real you. But they all matter hugely to the false you, the one who believes in the separate self. You have tried to take your separate self, with all its loneliness and anxiety and pride, to the door of enlightenment. But it will never go through, because it is a ghost.

The fact is that you are not the body. The Self does not move but the world moves in it. You are only what you are.