Ramana Maharshi Quotes

And since the now is all there ever is in your life, your entire life unfolds as the present moment. People don't realize it, but all they ever have is "this". This moment.

All experience is now. Now never ends.

Time past and time future allow but a little consciousness. To be conscious is not to be in time.

NOW is the only reality. All else is either memory or imagination.

Past and future exist only in our memory. The present moment, though, is outside of time, it's Eternity.

Life always is now, but the form the now takes changes continuously. Most people equate the form the now takes with the now itself, and so they believe there are many different moments.

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

The moment is the sole reality.

Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time: the Now. That is precious indeed. The more you are focused on time—past and future—the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.

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.

The reality consists only of now, the present. It has nothing to do with the past and nothing to do with the future. It is so concentrated in this moment that if you can be in this moment, all that you are seeking and searching will be fulfilled. This moment is the door to the divine.

The past cannot remember the past. The future can't generate the future. The cutting edge of the instant right here and now is always nothing less than the totality of everything there is.

Time is the element that controls the consciousness, the very being of the people.

Time is an illusion. Time only exists when we think about the past and the future. Time doesn't exist in the present here and now.

Nothing has existence unless you, I, or some living creature perceives it, and how it is perceived further influences that reality. Even time itself is not exempted from biocentrism.

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.

The future never comes. Life is always now.

If we pay no attention to it, time does not exist.

To be in time is to be asleep: to be awake is to be in eternity.

We have somehow conned ourselves into the notion that this moment is ordinary. This now moment, in which I'm talking and you're listening, is eternity.

Most of us take for granted that time flies, meaning that it passes too quickly. But in the mindful state, time doesn't really pass at all. There is only a single instant of time that keeps renewing itself over and over with infinite variety.

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.

Today is, after all, today, but yesterday is of the same substance as tomorrow.

Time, for a man who has never truly felt a second of it, it not a great sacrifice

this present moment never comes to be and it never ceases to be, it is simply our minds that construct the continuity of thoughts we call time. In the present moment is nirvana.