Ramana Maharshi Quotes

I'm trying to do what I have never done - give the impression one has on entering a room: one sees everything and at the same time nothing.

He who closes his eyes sees nothing, even in the full light of day.

Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say.

People tell you who they are. There are big neon signs going off. 'Pay attention! This is who I am.' And most of us put out hands a little bit over our eyes. We don't see that.

Anything is hard to find when you will not open your eyes

We are all too much inclined, I think, to walk through life with our eyes shut. There are things all round us and right at our very feet that we have never seen, because we have never really looked.

It's crazy what you see if you aren't really looking.

You see, but you do not observe.

But when we observe, we are forced to pay attention. We have to move from passive absorption to active awareness. We have to engage.

The eyes see not what is before them when the mind is intent on other matters.

We usually don't look. We overlook.

People never notice anything.

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

When you're being looked at very hard, it's very hard to look back. And that made me stop paying attention to the world in a way that allowed me then to write about it.

If you're really in the process of photographing, you are absolutely aware. You are looking.

A sponge sees everything? A sponge sees nothing.

You can't hit what you can't see.

I had to make sure I kept an eye on the real world.

I've often noticed that we are not able to look at what we have in front of us, unless it's inside a frame.

Some entertainers don't pay attention to what's going on around them.

There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.

Sometimes you lose sight of what's going on around you.

I am unobservant.

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.