Ramana Maharshi Quotes

If you are losing your peace in your quest for peace, you are not on the road to peace. The road to peace is peace.

When your higher self is present, it always promotes peace.

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

Here is the Divine Dichotomy... The way to 'get there' is to 'be there'. Just be where you choose to get!' It's that simple.

To be spiritual means to be solid, calm, and peaceful and to be able to look deeply inside and around us.

I make no distinction between the mind and the spirit, and therefore no distinction between the process of achieving spiritual growth and achieving mental growth. They are one and the same.

The material and the spiritual are but two parts of one universe and one truth. By overstressing one part or the other, man fails to achieve the balance necessary for harmonious development... Practice the art of living in this world without losing your inner peace of mind. Follow the path of balance to reach the inner wondrous garden of Self-Realization.

We know that we are happy when our mind is peaceful, and unhappy when it is not. It is therefore clear that our happiness depends upon our having a peaceful mind and not on good external conditions. Even if our external conditions are poor, if we maintain a peaceful mind all the time we shall always be happy.

The secret to peace-of-mind is to not identify with anything other than your true self.

If you would truly bring peace to the world, identify with that place within you where you are Peace.

Peace is your natural state. It is the mind that obstructs the natural state.

We live in this thought web; we identify things and put them away and distance ourselves from them. But to be completely present? That is source, that is art, that is spirituality. And meditation is a way to defy fear and experience that source.

Meditation means keeping one mind. You must understand - what is life? What is death? If you keep one mind, there is no life, no death. Then if you die tomorrow, no problem; if you die in five minutes, no problem.

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

That peace which is within us, we must experience it. And if we are searching for peace outside we will never find the peace within.

Now I meditate twice a day for half an hour. In meditation, I can let go of everything. I'm not Hugh Jackman. I'm not a dad. I'm not a husband. I'm just dipping into that powerful source that creates everything. I take a little bath in it.

If you're not careful to think and speak words of faith, worry will creep in, and it will not only steal your peace and joy, it will steal your 'today.' The present is the greatest gift God ever gives us. So hold on to the peace that's yours in Christ. Don't let it go.

I've been on a quest for spiritual answers for a long time. The things I've learned about interconnectedness and non-duality and the feeling of tapping into your soul that goes beyond the edge of your skin is important to me. Once I learned that, I'm far less often trapped in my own little man problems. Me against the universe problems.

I am a lover of what is, not because I'm a spiritual person, but because it hurts when I argue with reality.

To be conscious of Being, you need to reclaim consciousness from the mind. This is one of the most essential tasks on your spiritual journey.

Through the portals of silence the healing sun of wisdom and peace will shine upon you.

The spiritual quest is a journey without distance. You travel from where you are right now To where you have always been. From ignorance to recognition.

Enlightenment is lightening up.

Keep violence in the mind Where it belongs (Barefoot in the Head)