Ramana Maharshi Quotes

Think... of the world you carry within you, and call this thinking whatever you want to: a remembering of your own childhood or a yearning toward a future of your own - only be attentive to what is arising within you, and place that above everything you perceive around you. What is happening in your innermost self is worthy of your entire love; somehow you must find a way to work at it.

A lot of people think I live in a soul bubble.

To read your own mind is to look at your self and read your soul. Hatred becomes love and that is the path I am working on

Sometimes I wish I wasn't as conscious as I am. It would be so much easier.

While there seem to be many things to manage in the world, the most important thing to manage is your consciousness.

Our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves, and of our visible, sensible world.

The biggest (and hardest) lesson I've learned in life is that the external world is just a reflection of the world within.

Your outer world is a reflection of your inner world.

Think... of the world you carry within you.

I spend half my time just living my life, and the other half analyzing it.

Our souls need time to think, dream, and reflect.

I think and that is all that I am.

Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books.

Mindfulness has helped me succeed in almost every dimension of my life. By stopping regularly to look inward and become aware of my mental state, I stay connected to the source of my actions and thoughts and can guide them with considerably more intention.

I was pursuing the inner path at the expense of the rest of my being and the rest of the world.

The starting point of discovering who you are, your gifts, your talents, your dreams, is being comfortable with yourself. Spend time alone. Write in a journal. Take long walks in the woods.

I live in the moment, and I reflect later.

Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

The only journey is the one within.

I don't talk about consciousness. I talk about interiority.

We talk of communing with Nature, but 'tis with ourselves we commune... Nature furnishes the conditions - the solitude - and the soul furnishes the entertainment.

I believe in nurturing the inner world.

I've kept a diary since I was 11. It's a way of taking stock, almost meditative, trying to make sense of stuff because life is chaotic.

I use solitude as a judge and as a person - a lot.

I love just being in the sphere of nothingness looking inwards.