Ramana Maharshi Quotes

Everywhere I go, I still have time to meditate. People think meditating is sitting there, nobody bothering you, but you can even talk and still meditate.

Meditation is about breathing, it's about clarity, taking your time and not rushing through your thinking.

Be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence.

Meditation is a state of mind which looks at everything with complete attention, totally, not just parts of it. And no one can teach you how to be attentive. If any system teaches you how to be attentive, then you are attentive to the system, and that is not attention.

I don't have to go to a mountain to meditate. I'm meditative in every moment of my life.

Meditation is not passive sitting in silence. It is sitting in awareness, free from distraction, and realizing the clear understanding that arises from concentration.

If you can become a mirror you have become a meditator. Meditation is nothing but skill in mirroring. And now, no word moves inside you so there is no distraction.

When you wash your hands, when you make a cup of coffee, when you're waiting for the elevator - instead of indulging in thinking, these are all opportunities for being there as a still, alert presence.

Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance.

We tend to think of meditation in only one way. But life itself is a meditation.

I've never meditated in my life. I don't practice yoga nor any religion. I'm a tourist on the realm of stillness.

I prefer to be in tune with my surroundings and to be aware of things. I like listening to my foot strike and my breathing. It can be quite soothing.

Meditation helps me see things clearer. When things are going fast, it helps me slow them down.

Meditation has taught me to be in the present moment and observe the present moment at the same time. Just breathe, follow your breath, and your intuition can take you from there.

Zen taught me how to pay attention, how to delve, how to question and enter, how to stay with -- or at least want to try to stay with -- whatever is going on.

Only when you are relaxed can you see what's going on.

You can look only when the mind is completely quiet.

When you are here and now, sitting totally, not jumping ahead, the miracle has happened. To be in the moment is the miracle.

No distractions. Center yourself. This is your time.

Be true to the thought of the moment and avoid distraction. Other than continuing to exert yourself, enter into nothing else, but go to the extent of living single thought by single thought.

I think there's too much mult-tasking going on. I think people need to quiet down and focus and be still more.

Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine.

Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.

Whatsoever you are doing, be absorbed in it so utterly that the mind thinks nothing, is just there, is just a presence. And more and more totality will be coming.

Often we tell ourselves, "Don't just sit there, do something!" But when we practice awareness, we discover that the opposite may be more helpful: "Don't just do something, sit there!"