Ramana Maharshi Quotes

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

There is no before. There is only now, and what comes next.

The present moment dies every moment to become the past , is reborn every moment into the future. All experience is now. Now never ends.

It is no more possible to live in the future than it is to live in the past. If life is not now, it is never.

Now is the only thing that exists.

The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.

If the present is really all we have, then the present lasts forever.

The present moment, if you think about it, is the only time there is. No matter what time it is, it is always now.

Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.

It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. All there is ever, is the now.

Forget all your learnings - just remember that NOW is the moment that never ends

And if there is not any such thing as a long time, nor the rest of your lives, nor from now on, but there is only now, why then now is the thing to praise and I am very happy with it.

The moment is the sole reality.

There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.

Eternity isn't some later time. Eternity isn't a long time. Eternity has nothing to do with time. Eternity is that dimension of here and now which thinking and time cuts out. This is it. And if you don't get it here, you won't get it anywhere. And the experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life.

The idea of the past is as useless as the idea of the future. Both could be invoked by anybody about anything. There is never any more beauty than there is now. There is no more joy or wonder or sorrow than there is now, nor perfection, nor any more evil nor any more good than there is now.

Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.

The future is a concept, it doesn't exist. There is no such thing as tomorrow. There never will be, because time is always now. That's one of the things we discover when we stop talking to ourselves and stop thinking. We find there is only present, only an eternal now.

All eternity is in the moment.

Well, the past is gone, I know that. The future isn't here yet, whatever it's going to be. So, all there is, is this. The present. That's it.

To the soul, there is no past and no future; all is, and will be ever, in now. For artificial purposes time is mutually agreed on, but there is really no such thing.

The future never comes. Life is always now.

The present moment is the only time that is eternal and the only time in which we can experience happiness.

The moment is all there is now. All there is is now. That's what God is, too. God is only now.