1. “Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world.” – Ramana Maharshi
2. “Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.” – Ramana Maharshi
3. “It is beyond words or thoughts.” – Ramana Maharshi
4. “To the extent we behave with humility, to that extent good will result.” – Ramana Maharshi
5. “Do what is right at a given moment and leave it behind” – Ramana Maharshi
6. “There is neither creation nor destruction, neither destiny nor free will, neither path nor achievement. This is the final truth.” – Ramana Maharshi
7. “You know that you know nothing. Find out that knowledge.” – Ramana Maharshi
8. “What comes will also go. What always is will alone remain.” – Ramana Maharshi
9. “Truth burns up all karma and frees you from all births.” – Ramana Maharshi
10. “There is no seeing. Seeing is only being.” – Ramana Maharshi
11. “Once the current of awareness of the self is set afoot, it becomes everlasting and continuous by intensification.” – Ramana Maharshi
12. “True Silence is really endless speech.” – Ramana Maharshi
13. “The mind is only a bundle of thoughts. The thoughts have their root in the I-thought. Whoever investigates the True “I” enjoys the stillness of bliss.” – Ramana Maharshi
14. “When the mind is left without anything to cling to, it becomes still.” – Ramana Maharshi
15. “The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.” – Ramana Maharshi
16. “Real peace is happiness. Pleasures do not form happiness.” – Ramana Maharshi
17. “Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows ‘I am!’ No one can deny his own being.” – Ramana Maharshi
18. “When we turn the mind inwards, God manifests as the inner consciousness.” – Ramana Maharshi
19. “The self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself, within yourself.” – Ramana Maharshi
20. “You do not like to suffer yourself. How can you inflict suffering on others?” – Ramana Maharshi
21. “You are already that which you seek.” – Ramana Maharshi
22. “Silence is truth. Silence is bliss. Silence is peace. And hence Silence is the Self.” – Ramana Maharshi
23. “Silence is also conversation.” – Ramana Maharshi
24. “The “I” thought is said to be the sum total of all thoughts. The source of the “I” thought has to be enquired into.” – Ramana Maharshi
25. “When the mind that is subtle goes out through the brain and the sense-organs, the gross names and forms appear; when it stays in the Heart, the names and forms disappear.” – Ramana Maharshi
26. “Your duty is to Be, and not to be this or that.” – Ramana Maharshi
27. “See who is in the subject. The investigation leads you to pure consciousness beyond the subject.” – Ramana Maharshi
28. “The body is the temple; the jiva is God (Siva). If one worships him with the ‘I am He’ thought, one will gain release.” – Ramana Maharshi
29. “Pleasure and pain are only aspects of the mind. Our essential nature is happiness.” – Ramana Maharshi
30. “Then all this earth shines like one house.” – Ramana Maharshi
31. “Grace is ever present. All that is necessary is that you surrender to it.” – Ramana Maharshi
32. “Correcting oneself is correcting the whole world. The Sun is simply bright. It does not correct anyone. Because it shines, the whole world is full of light. Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.” – Ramana Maharshi
33. “You do not grow by acquiring something nor wither away by losing it. You remain what you always are.” – Ramana Maharshi
34. “Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?” – Ramana Maharshi
35. “The greatest error of a man is to think that he is weak by nature, evil by nature. Every man is divine and strong in his real nature. What are weak and evil are his habits, his desires and thoughts, but not himself.” – Ramana Maharshi
36. “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.” – Ramana Maharshi
37. “Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that.” – Ramana Maharshi
38. “There is no greater mystery than this, that we keep seeking reality though in fact we are reality.” – Ramana Maharshi
39. “No one succeeds without effort… Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.” – Ramana Maharshi
40. “We are in our Self. We are not in the world.” – Ramana Maharshi
41. “When one remains without thinking one understands another by means of the universal language of silence.” – Ramana Maharshi
42. “Realization is our true nature. It is nothing new to be gained. What is new cannot be eternal. Therefore there is no need to be doubting whether we would gain or lose the self.” – Ramana Maharshi
43. “Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence.” – Ramana Maharshi
44. “If you observe awareness steadily, this awareness itself becomes the Guru that will reveal the Truth.” – Ramana Maharshi
45. “First set yourself right, and only then set out to improve others. Change the hearts of men and the world will surely change. But one must begin somewhere; and one can only begin with oneself.” – Ramana Maharshi
46. “The question ‘Who am I?’ is not really meant to get an answer, the question ‘Who am I?’ is meant to dissolve the questioner.” – Ramana Maharshi
47. “Silence is never-ending speech.” – Ramana Maharshi
48. “The seat of Realization is within and the seeker cannot find it as an object outside him. That seat is bliss and is the core of all beings. Hence it is called the Heart.” – Ramana Maharshi
49. “Who am I? Not the body, because it is decaying, not the mind, because the brain will decay with the body, not the personality, nor the emotions, for these also will vanish with death.” – Ramana Maharshi
50. “Everything in the world was my Guru.” – Ramana Maharshi
51. “If you make the thief the policeman there will be lots of investigation but no arrests will ever be made.” – Ramana Maharshi
52. “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.” – Ramana Maharshi
53. “He who thinks he is the doer is also the sufferer.” – Ramana Maharshi
54. “Is it the world that says I am real, or is it you?” – Ramana Maharshi
55. “Grace is not something outside or you.. In fact, your very desire for grace is due to grace that is already working in you.” – Ramana Maharshi
56. “Unless one is happy, one cannot bestow happiness on others.” – Ramana Maharshi
57. “Suffering is the way for Realization of God.” – Ramana Maharshi
58. “Love is verily the heart of all religions.” – Ramana Maharshi
59. “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.” – Ramana Maharshi
60. “You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.” – Ramana Maharshi
61. “You are the Supreme Being, and yet thinking yourself to be separate from it, you strive to become united with it. What is stranger than this?” – Ramana Maharshi
62. “Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth.” – Ramana Maharshi
63. “What is said is given out to suit the temperament of the hearers” – Ramana Maharshi
64. “Happiness is your real nature.” – Ramana Maharshi
65. “Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.” – Ramana Maharshi
66. “A realized one sends out waves of spiritual influence in his aura, which draw many people towards him. Yet he may sit in a cave and maintain complete silence.” – Ramana Maharshi
67. “Peace can reign only where there is no disturbance, and disturbance is due to thoughts that arise in the mind.” – Ramana Maharshi
68. “The inquiry “who am I” turns the mind inward and makes it calm.” – Ramana Maharshi
69. “The source of the ego is God.” – Ramana Maharshi
70. “Remain still, with the conviction that the Self shines as everything yet nothing, within, without, and everywhere.” – Ramana Maharshi
71. “We are always peace. To get rid of the idea that we are not peace is all that is required.” – Ramana Maharshi
72. “The Self is here and now, it is the only Reality. There is nothing else.” – Ramana Maharshi
73. “The man who prays, the prayer, and the God to whom he prays all have reality only as manifestations of the Self.” – Ramana Maharshi
74. “Engage yourself in the living present. The future will take care of itself.” – Ramana Maharshi
75. “It is enough that one surrenders oneself. Surrender is to give oneself up to the original cause of one’s being. Do not delude yourself by imagining such a source to be some God outside you. One’s source is within oneself. Give yourself up to it. That means that you should seek the source and merge in it.” – Ramana Maharshi
76. “Doubts arise because of an absence of surrender.” – Ramana Maharshi
77. “there is no doubt that the end of the paths of devotion and knowledge is one and the same.” – Ramana Maharshi
78. “The world is not outside you.” – Ramana Maharshi
79. “If you approach the ocean with a cup, you can only take away a cupful; if you approach it with a bucket you can take away a bucketful.” – Ramana Maharshi
80. “A higher power is leading you; be led by the same. It knows what to do and how to do it.” – Ramana Maharshi
81. “Words Of Wisdom, Problem, Solutions” – Ramana Maharshi
82. “The only useful purpose of the present birth is to turn within and realize the Self.” – Ramana Maharshi
83. “I do not consider anyone to be my disciple. I have never sought upadesh from anyone nor do I give ceremonial upadesh. If the people call themselves my disciples I do not approve or disapprove.” – Ramana Maharshi
84. “All unhappiness is due to the ego. With it comes all your trouble. If you would deny the ego and scorch it by ignoring it you would be free.” – Ramana Maharshi
85. “Mind is a wonderful force inherent in the Self.” – Ramana Maharshi
86. “When one makes the mind stick to one thought, the mind becomes rock-steady and the energy is conserved.” – Ramana Maharshi
87. “Of all the thoughts that rise in the mind, the thought ‘I’ is the first thought.” – Ramana Maharshi
88. “Let what comes come, let what goes go.” – Ramana Maharshi
89. “Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.” – Ramana Maharshi
90. “Surrender is to give oneself up to the original cause of one’s being.” – Ramana Maharshi
91. “Knowing the Self, God is known.” – Ramana Maharshi
92. “Without seeing the origin of light, the true form of one’s Self, the ordinary man sees by the mind different things and is deluded.” – Ramana Maharshi
93. “Thoughts come and go. Feelings come and go. Find out what it is that remains.” – Ramana Maharshi
94. “Self-inquiry is the process and the goal also. ‘I am’ is the goal and the final reality. To hold to it with effort is self-inquiry. When spontaneous and natural it is realization.” – Ramana Maharshi
95. “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.” – Ramana Maharshi
96. “Good thoughts keep off bad thoughts. They must themselves disappear before the state of realization.” – Ramana Maharshi
97. “The end of all wisdom is love, love, love.” – Ramana Maharshi
98. “Silence is ever speaking; it is the perennial flow of language.” – Ramana Maharshi
99. “The greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened.” – Ramana Maharshi
100. “Your true nature is that of infinite spirit. The feeling of limitation is the work of the mind.” – Ramana Maharshi
101. “There is nothing wrong with God’s creation. Mystery and Suffering only exist in the mind.” – Ramana Maharshi
102. “The solution to your problem is to see who has it.” – Ramana Maharshi
103. “Peace is the inner nature of humankind. If you find it within yourself, you will then find it everywhere.” – Ramana Maharshi
104. “It is within our competence to think and become bound, or to cease thinking and thus be free.” – Ramana Maharshi
105. “You can only stop the flow of thoughts by refusing to have any interest in it.” – Ramana Maharshi
106. “A dreamer dreams that everyone else in his dream must awaken before he can awaken.” – Ramana Maharshi
107. “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.” – Ramana Maharshi
108. “All are seeing God always. But they do not know it.” – Ramana Maharshi
109. “The enemy hates the ego, which the seeker wants to kill; thus, like the anvil to the goldsmith, he is actually a friend.” – Ramana Maharshi