Thinking Quotes by Ramana Maharshi

20 Thinking quotes by Ramana Maharshi

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Ramana Maharshi’s twenty sayings distill centuries of contemplative practice into concise prompts for inner listening and self‑discovery.

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Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that.

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He who thinks he is the doer is also the sufferer.

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The Sage has no thinking mind and therefore there are no ‘others’ for him.

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It is within our competence to think and become bound, or to cease thinking and thus be free.

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It is within your competence to think and thus to get bound or to cease thinking and thus be free.

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The main factor in meditation is to keep the mind active in its own pursuit without taking in external impressions or thinking…

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When one remains without thinking one understands another by means of the universal language of Silence.

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You are the Supreme Being, and yet thinking yourself to be separate from it, you strive to become united with it. What…

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Turn the mind inward and cease thinking of yourself as the body; thereby you will come to know that the self is…

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Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that. If you call…

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Eating, bathing, going to the toilet, talking, thinking, and many other activities related to the body are all work. How is it…

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There is no greater mystery than this, that we keep seeking reality though in fact we are reality. We think that there…

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If one wants to abide in the thought-free state, a struggle is inevitable. One must fight one's way through before regaining one's…

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...the Lord of the Universe carries the entire burden of this world. You imagine you do. You can hand all your burdens…

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The Self is self-luminous without darkness and light, and is the reality which is self-manifest. Therefore, one should not think of it…

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Keep the remembrance of your real nature alive, even while working, and avoid haste which causes you to forget. Be deliberate. Practice…

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If a person realises his position and stays in his own self, things that are to happen will happen. Things that are…

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You are the witness of the three bodies: the gross, the subtle, and the causal, and of the three times: past, present…

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The master is within; meditation is meant to remove the ignorant idea that he is only outside. If he is a stranger…

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Concentration is not thinking of one thing. On the contrary, it is excluding all thoughts, since all thoughts obstruct the sense of…

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The entire Universe is condensed in the body, and the entire body in the Heart. Thus the Heart is the nucleus of the whole…

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