Ramana Maharshi
Thoughts come and go. Feelings come and go. Find out what it is that remains.Collection: Feelings
Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.Collection: Contentment
Whatever is destined not to happen will not happen, try as you may. Whatever is destined to happen will happen, do what you may to prevent it. This is certain. The best course, therefore, is to remain silent.Collection: Trying
Why should you trouble yourself about the future? You do not even properly know about the present. Take care of the present, the future will take care of itself.Collection: Care
Your true nature is that of infinite spirit. The feeling of limitation is the work of the mind.Collection: Feelings
Silence is truth. Silence is bliss. Silence is peace. And hence Silence is the Self.Collection: Self
Peace is the inner nature of humankind. If you find it within yourself, you will then find it everywhere.Collection: Humankind
There is neither past nor future. There is only the present. Yesterday was the present to you when you experienced it, and tomorrow will be also the present when you experience it. Therefore, experience takes place only in the present, and beyond experience nothing exists.Collection: Past
Reality is simply the loss of ego. Destroy the ego by seeking its identity. Because the ego is no entity it will automatically vanish and reality will shine forth by itself.Collection: Loss
One should remain as a witness to whatever happens, adopting the attitude, 'Let whatever strange things that happens happen, let us see!' This should be one's practice. Nothing happens by accident in the divine scheme of things.Collection: Attitude
You are awareness. Awareness is another name for you. Since you are awareness there is no need to attain or cultivate it. All that you have to do is to give up being aware of other things, that is of the not-Self. If one gives up being aware of them then pure awareness alone remains, and that is the Self.Collection: Giving Up
Have faith in God and in yourself; that will cure all. Hope for the best, expect the best, toil for the best and everything will come right for you in the end.Collection: Toil
Your duty is to Be, and not to be this or that.Collection: Letting Go
The solution to your problem is to see who has it.Collection: Words Of Wisdom
The greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened.Collection: Past
Beyond the belief that something can be lost, there is nothing to lose.Collection: Belief
Your own Self-realization is the greatest service you can render the world.Collection: Life
Once the current of awareness of the self is set afoot, it becomes everlasting and continuous by intensification.Collection: Yoga
A higher power is leading you; be led by the same. It knows what to do and how to do it.Collection: Higher Power
Place your burden at the feet of the Lord of the universe who is ever victorious and accomplishes everything. Remain all the time steadfast in the heart, in the Transcendental Absolute. God knows the past, present and future. He will determine the future for you and accomplish the work. What is to be done will be done at the proper time. Don't worry. Abide in the heart and surrender your acts to the Divine.Collection: Heart
From where does this "I" arise? Seek for it within; it then vanishes. This is the pursuit of wisdom. When the mind unceasingly investigates its own nature, it transpires that there is no such thing as mind. This is the direct path for all. The mind is merely thoughts. Of all thoughts the thought "I" is the root.Collection: Inspiration
If one's mind has peace, the whole world will appear peaceful.Collection: Peaceful
Calmness is the criterion of spiritual progress. Plunge the purified mind into the Heart. Then the work is over.Collection: Spiritual
The source of the ego is God.Collection: Ego
The fact is that you are not the body. The Self does not move but the world moves in it. You are only what you are.Collection: Moving
Take no notice of the ego and its activities, but see only the light behind.Collection: Light
The grace of the Guru is like an ocean. If one comes with a cup he will only get a cupful. It is no use complaining of the niggardliness of the ocean. The bigger the vessel the more one will be able to carry. It is entirely up to him.Collection: Ocean
Every living being longs always to be happy, untainted by sorrow; and everyone has the greatest love for himself, which is solely due to the fact that happiness is his real nature. Hence, in order to realize that inherent and untainted happiness, which indeed he daily experiences when the mind is subdued in deep sleep, it is essential that he should know himself. For obtaining such knowledge the inquiry 'Who am I?' in quest of the Self is the best means.Collection: Real
The state we call realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything.Collection: Inspiration
That which is not present in deep dreamless sleep is not realCollection: Real
All that is required to realise the Self is to “Be Still.Collection: Inspirational
How to get rid of the mind? Is it the mind that wants to kill itself? The mind cannot kill itself. So your business is to find the real nature of the mind. Then you will know that there is no mind. When the Self is sought, the mind is nowhere. Abiding in the Self, one need not worry about the mind.Collection: Spiritual
Misery does not exist in reality but only in mere imagination.Collection: Reality
This perception of division between the seer and the object that is seen, is situated in the mind. For those remaining in the heart, the seer becomes one with the sight.Collection: Heart
The Self alone exists. When you try to trace the ego, which is the basis of the perception of the world and everything else, you find the ego does not exist at all and neither does all this creation that you see.Collection: Self
Is it the world that says I am real, or is it you?Collection: Real
Non-action is unceasing activity. The sage is characterized by eternal and intense activity. His stillness is like the apparent stillness of a fast rotating gyroscope.Collection: Sage
If you observe awareness steadily, this awareness itself becomes the Guru that will reveal the Truth.Collection: Awareness
Suffering is the way for Realization of God.Collection: Suffering
Realisation is nothing new to be acquired. It is already there, but obstructed by a screen of thoughts. All our attempts are directed to lifting this screen and then realisation is revealed.Collection: Inspiration
If you hold this feeling of ‘I’ long enough and strongly enough, the false ‘I’ will vanish leaving only the unbroken awareness of the real, immanent ‘I’, consciousness itselfCollection: Real
Wanting to reform the world without discovering one's true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes.Collection: Spiritual
Turn your vision inward and then the whole world will be full of the Supreme Spirit.Collection: Meditation
Whenever a thought arises, instead of trying even a little either to follow it up or to fulfil it, it would be better to first enquire, "To whom did this thought arise?"Collection: Inspiration
It will come all right in the end. There is the steady impulse of your determination that sets you on your feet again after every downfall and breakdown. Gradually the obstacles are all overcome and your current becomes stronger. Everything comes right in the end. Steady determination is what is required.Collection: Determination
If a person realises his position and stays in his own self, things that are to happen will happen. Things that are not to happen will not happen. The shakti that is in the world, is only one. All these troubles arise if we think that we are separate from that shakti.Collection: Thinking
There is no reaching the Self. If Self were to be reached, it would mean that the Self is not here and now but that it is yet to be obtained. What is got afresh will also be lost. So it will be impermanent. What is not permanent is not worth striving for. So I say the Self is not reached. You are the Self; you are already That.Collection: Wisdom
There is nothing so simple as being the Self. It requires no effort, no aid. One has to leave off the wrong identity and be in his (her) eternal, natural, inherent state.Collection: Simple
There is no greater mystery than this, that we keep seeking reality though in fact we are reality.Collection: Reality