Quotes from Ramana Maharshi

Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth.

Pleasure and pain are only aspects of the mind. Our essential nature is happiness

When your real, effortless, joyful grateful nature is realized, it will not be inconsistent with the ordinary activities of life.

Realisation is our nature. It is nothing new to be gained. What is new cannot be eternal. Therefore there is no need for doubting if one would lose or gain the Self.

If one's mind has peace, the whole world will appear peaceful.

Peace is the inner nature of humankind. If you find it within yourself, you will then find it everywhere.

You and I are the same. What I have done is surely possible for all. You are the Self now and can never be anything else. Throw your worries to the wind, turn within and find Peace.

Peace can reign only where there is no disturbance, and disturbance is due to thoughts that arise in the mind.

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

A higher power is leading you; be led by the same. It knows what to do and how to do it.

When we turn the mind inwards, God manifests as the inner consciousness.

Seeing God without seeing the Self, one sees only mental image. Only he who has seen Himself has seen God, since he has lost individuality, and now sees nothing but God.

The source of the ego is God.

God illumines the mind and shines within it. One cannot know God by means of the mind. One can but turn the mind inwards and merge it in God.

Suffering is the way for Realization of God.

All are seeing God always. But they do not know it.

Knowing the Self, God is known.

To the extent we behave with humility, to that extent good will result.

Good thoughts keep off bad thoughts. They must themselves disappear before the state of realization.

There must be a subject to know the good and evil. Thatsubject is the ego.

Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.

Happiness is not to be sought in solitude or in busy centers. It is in the Self.

Such happiness is relative and is better called pleasure or satisfaction.

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.