Ramana Maharshi Quotes

The sacred duty of being an individual is to gradually learn how to live so as to awaken the eternal within you.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

I prefer stories about people who are, in a sense, trying to find better versions of themselves.

To live is to find out for yourself what is true, and you can do this only when there is freedom, when there is continuous revolution inwardly, within yourself.

Everyone is on a journey to realize their best selves and their realest selves, and I think that's what creates that community.

Getting to know myself changed everything. It's the best thing I've ever done.

'Days Before Rodeo' is just the journey of me finding out who I am.

the process of building a self and its works is always too slow. One is always in arrears to oneself.

It's really about connecting to your own humanity and your own behaviors, and getting to a level of self-awareness so that you can have perspective and step outside of yourself and transform and become another person.

To search for truth about self is as valuable as to search for truth in other areas of life.

The greatest discovery in life is self-discovery. Until you find yourself you will always be someone else. Become yourself.

Until we see what we are, we cannot take steps to become what we should be.

I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself.

What you are is a question only you can answer.

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

You don't find out who you are unless you work at it.

I've been through so much of my own self-search that I'm not as consumed with who I am as I used to be.

Don't go through life, grow through life.

Everything we know by heart enriches us and helps us find ourselves. If it should get in the way of finding ourselves, it is because we have no personality.

It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It's a picture of somebody trying to figure things out. I'm not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn't interest me.

I want to challenge people to find out who they are.

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.

Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

I'm not really on a mission to tell anybody anything. I'd rather be figured out.