Ramana Maharshi Quotes

Is perception equivalent to existence?

Aren't memories just dreams we have when we're awake?

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

The world is real. Consciousness is the illusion.

Without consciousness, space and time are nothing.

Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.

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

One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.

The primary Reality is not what I think, but that I live, for those also live who do not think.

Consciousness is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.

Your mind makes out the orange by seeing it, hearing it, touching it, smelling it, tasting it and thinking about it but without this mind, you call it, the orange would not be seen or heard or smelled or tasted or even mentally noticed, it's actually, that orange, depending on your mind to exist! Don't you see that? By itself it's a no-thing, it's really mental, it's seen only of your mind. In other words it's empty and awake.

The physical universe that you see is all in your mind. When you turn your mind off, or become unconscious, the physical universe, for you, disappears. Then, when you awaken your consciousness, the universe reappears magically. Quite simple really - no thoughts on your part, no physical world. As Walt Whitman succinctly stated: "The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual - namely to You." Without your mind to process it, the universe simply disappears into nothingness.

You can't have a universe without the mind entering into it.

There is no life without consciousness; there is no consciousness without life.

Life is consciousness.

Being is seeing in the human dimension.

Maybe you don't have to remember something for it to be true. For it to exist.

Without consciousness there would, practically speaking, be no world, for the world exists as such only in so far as it is consciously reflected and considered by a psyche. Consciousness is a precondition of being.

The world doesn't just disappear when you close your eyes, does it?

To be is to be perceived

The problem is we think we exist.

What is essential is whether it is perceived and not whether it exists. To exist and yet not to be perceived is the same as not exist.

To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see; all this is nothing but to perceive.

I secretly think reality exists so we can speculate about it.

The simple fact of existence, of being aware that you are aware; this to me is the most astounding fact.