Ramana Maharshi

“Surrender is to give oneself up to the original cause of one's being.”

“Do not delude yourself by imagining such source to be some God outside you. One's source is within oneself.”

“The Self is unity. There is no me and thou in the Self.”

“There is only being in Self-realization, and nothing but being.”

“There is nothing but God.”

“By following any path you can certainly reach the goal. But that path which is the easiest, the most direct, is the path of Self-enquiry.”

“The mind turned outwards results in thoughts and objects. Turned inwards it becomes itself the Self.”

“Pursue the inquiry 'Who am I?' relentlessly. Analyse your entire personality. Try to find out where the I-thought begins.”

“If you make your vichara (Self-enquiry) continuous and intense, all other thoughts will be destroyed and finally the I-thought itself will vanish.”

“When the I-thought has vanished there will be revealed the great Self, which is the substratum of all.”

“What is is just That. There is no difference at all.”

“If anything has a beginning, it must end.”

“Mind is consciousness limited by body. The Self is unconditioned consciousness.”

“There is no need to study books and traditions to know the Self. The Self is here and now and is always known to oneself.”

“The mind is by nature restless. Begin liberating it from its restlessness; give it peace.”

“There is no investigation into the Atman in samadhi. There is the experience of pure being.”

“Self alone is, and the Self alone is real.”

“Realisation is nothing to be gained afresh; it is already there. All that is necessary is to get rid of the thought 'I have not realised'.”

“Self-realization is the realization of one's own true nature, ever-present, ever-shining.”