Ramana Maharshi Quotes

Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.

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.

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.

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

I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.

Now is all we have. Everything that has ever happened to you, and anything that is ever going to happen to you, is just a thought.

Light is time thinking about itself.

When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish.

Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems - but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems more and more incredible.

There is neither past nor future. There is only the present. Yesterday was the present to you when you experienced it, and tomorrow will be also the present when you experience it. Therefore, experience takes place only in the present, and beyond experience nothing exists.

And as well as I dream, I reason if I want, for that's just another kind of dream.

Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.

Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that. If you call it time, it is time. If you call it existence, it is existence, and so on. After calling it time, you divide it into days and nights, months, years, hours, minutes, etc. Time is immaterial for the Path of Knowledge.

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

We are all captives of the picture in our head - our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.

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.

You will not ever perceive the truth that is reality. There are many realities.

It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.

We are what we think…With our thoughts we make the world.

We are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming.

I think your imagination is your reality

The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.

Time isn't precious at all, because it is an illusion.

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