Ramana Maharshi Quotes

Only when you stop identifying yourself with things that are not you, the possibility of knowing the nature of your existence arises.

To know what that true self is without social pressure is to know your true nature.

There is nothing so simple as being the Self. It requires no effort, no aid. One has to leave off the wrong identity and be in his (her) eternal, natural, inherent state.

the truth of who we are is innate goodness, and the whole journey is really about removing any obstacle or false belief that keeps us from knowing that

Whatever be the means adopted, you must at last return to the Self, so why not abide as the Self here and now?

Awakening to who we really are is at the heart of yoga. . . .Yoga offers a path to this underlying field of being, which is the source of creativity, fulfillment, and abundance.

I needed to be myself and find my own identity.

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

Truth is not a matter of fact but a state of harmony with progress and hope. Enveloped only in its wings will we ever soar to the promise of our greater selves.

You don't have a soul; you are your own soul. In other words, you are not this book, your social security card, your body, or your mind. You are you.

If you don't know yourself, you don't know your nature. If you don't know your nature, you don't know where to exist. By knowing your nature, knowing yourself, you know what to be and how to live. And that only comes from knowledge of self, knowing yourself.

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

The state of self-realization, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been.

Meditation will drop all the masks. It is a search for the original face.

The wholeness and freedom we seek is our true nature, who we really are.

Your duty is to Be, and not to be this or that.

What you seek, you already are.

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.

Realize your true nature. That is all there is to do. Know yourself as you are - infinite Spirit. That is practical religion. Everything else is impractical, for everything else will perish.

Reality is simply the loss of ego. Destroy the ego by seeking its identity. Because the ego is no entity it will automatically vanish and reality will shine forth by itself.

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.

The true purpose of yoga is to discover that aspect of your being that can never be lost.

If you don't feel fabulous, you have deviated from the path of who-you-really-are.

Everything you want to be, you already are. You're simply on the path to discovering it.

Eventually we will all understand that all wisdom is within us, and as we remember, practice and access this wisdom, we will become our own best teacher.