Ramana Maharshi Quotes

Become aware of the silent witness that is observing the unfolding of all the external events of your life. This eternal presence is your true Self.

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.

Your job on Earth, therefore, is not to learn (because you already know), but to remember Who You Are. And to remember who everyone else is.

It's all real and it's all illusory: that's Awareness!

The highest force in existence is consciousness, and you are that.

Truth is pure awareness.

The Self is the one Reality that always exists, and it is by the light of the Self that all other things are seen.

Being is accessible to you now as your own deepest self, your true nature. But don't seek to grasp it with your mind. Don't try to understand it. You can know it only when the mind is still. When you are present, when your attention is fully and intensely in the Now, Being can be felt, but it can never be understood mentally.

Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth.

That which is not present in deep dreamless sleep is not real

The ego does not, cannot live in the present, because the present is real and the ego is false - they never meet.

You are the knowing, not the condition that is known.

Do not think of yourself as the body, but as the joyous consciousness and immortal life behind it.

Drop dreaming and you are there where you have really been always, but you were never aware. All meditation techniques are just antidream efforts, just dream-negating devices.

It's not about the body; you are consciousness. That's what you are. Your consciousness is already out of your body. You don't need to get out of your body, you just need to get into your consciousness.

When we turn the mind inwards, God manifests as the inner consciousness.

With which part do you watch? Surely with the mind? That won't do. It is the silent Purusha within who must watch all.

I am not my thoughts, emotions, sense perceptions, and experiences. I am not the content of my life. I am Life. I am the space in which all things happen. I am consciousness. I am the Now. I Am.

Let's not forget that what is looking out of your eyes and hearing with your ears right now is already Spirit. And that Spirit, that I AMness, is always present in all sentient beings.

When we're deluded there's a world to escape. When we're aware, there's nothing to escape.

I am neither the mind, nor the intellect, nor the ego, nor the mind-stuff

An unawakened person sees only his mind, which is merely a reflection of the light of pure consciousness arising from the Heart.

Beyond living and dreaming there is something more important: waking up.

Once you have had a glimpse of awareness or Presence, you know it firsthand. It is no longer just a concept in your mind.

Heaven is within us, and we experience it to the degree that we become conscious of it.