“Everything in the world was my Guru.” 
― Ramana Maharshi

“You are awareness. Awareness is another name for you. Since you are awareness there is no need to attain or cultivate it.” 
― Ramana Maharshi

“The only useful purpose of the present birth is to turn within and realize the Self.” 
― Ramana Maharshi

“One of two things must be done. Either surrender because you admit your inability and require a higher power to help you, or investigate the cause of misery by going to the source and merging into the Self. Either way you will be free from misery. God never forsakes one who has surrendered.” 
― Ramana Maharshi

“If the light of the sun is invisible to the owl it is only the fault of that bird and not of the sun.” 
― Ramana Maharshi, Collected works of Ramana Maharshi

“Do what is right at a given moment and leave it behind” 
― Ramana Maharshi

“Mind your business. Take care of what you came here for. Find the ‘I’ first and you may afterwards speak of other matters.” 
― Ramana Maharshi

“To perform one's duty is the greatest service to God.” 
― Ramana Maharshi

“Your concentration must come as easily as the breath. Fix yourself on one thing and try to hold onto it. All will come right. Meditation is sticking to one thought. That single thought keeps away other thoughts. The dissipated mind is a sign of its weakness. By constant meditation it gains strength.” 
― Ramana Maharshi, The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi in His Own Words

“Controlling speech and breath, and diving deep within oneself — like one who, to find a thing that has fallen into water, dives deep down — one must seek out the source whence the aspiring ego springs.” 
― Ramana Maharshi, Collected works of Ramana Maharshi

“The peace of mind which permeates the saint's atmosphere is the only means by which the seeker understands the greatness of the saint.” 
― Ramana Maharshi

“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, Collected works of Ramana Maharshi

“Although the modes of meditation may appear to be different from one another, in the end all of them become one. There is no need to doubt this. One may adopt that path which suits the maturity of one’s mind.” 
― Ramana Maharshi, Collected works of Ramana Maharshi

“you must achieve liberation during your life time.
Even if you fail to do it during your lifetime, you must think of god at least at the time of death, since one becomes what he thinks of 
at the time of death. But unless all your life you have been thinking of God, unless you have accustomed yourself to dhyana of 'God
always during life, it would not at all be possible for you think of God at the time of death.” 
― Ramana Maharshi

“The revelation or intuition arises in its own time and one must wait for it.” 
― Ramana Maharshi

“Grace is always present. You imagine it is something somewhere high in the sky, far away, and has to descend. It is really inside you, in your Heart, and the moment you effect subsidence or merger of the mind into its Source, grace rushes forth, sprouting as from a spring within you” 
― Ramana Maharshi

“Complete surrender does require that you have no desire of your own, that God’s desire alone is your desire and that you have no desire of your own.” 
― Ramana Maharshi

“there is no doubt that the end of the paths of devotion and knowledge is one and the same.” 
― Ramana Maharshi, Collected works of Ramana Maharshi

“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, Collected works of Ramana Maharshi

“So long as they make efforts they will not be sages (jnanis).” 
― Ramana Maharshi, Collected works of Ramana Maharshi

“The ego in its purity is experienced in intervals between two states
or two thoughts. Ego is like that caterpillar which leaves its hold
only after catching another. Its true nature can be found when it is
out of contact with objects or thoughts.” 
― Ramana Maharshi

“Finally there comes a stage when a person feels helpless notwithstanding the sadhanas. He is unable to pursue the much-cherished sadhana also. It is then that Gods power is realized. The self reveals itself.” 
― Ramana Maharshi

“It is beyond words or thoughts.” 
― Ramana Maharshi, Collected works of Ramana Maharshi

“The enquiry ‘Who am I?’ is the principal means to the removal of all misery and the attainment of the supreme bliss.” 
― Ramana Maharshi, Collected works of Ramana Maharshi

“The Power that created you has created the world as well. If it can take care of you, it can similarily take care of the world also. If God has created the world, it is His business to look after it, not yours.” 
― Ramana Maharshi

“He who has renounced (the ‘I-thought’) thus, remains the same whether he is alone or in the midst of the extensive samsara” 
― Ramana Maharshi, Collected works of Ramana Maharshi

“That which is worth taking up is the self-enquiry that reveals jnana; that which is worth enjoying is the grandeur of the Self; that which is worth renouncing is the ego-mind; that in which it is worth taking refuge, to eliminate sorrow completely, is one’s own source, the Heart.” 
― Ramana Maharshi

“The reply comes as a current of awareness in the Heart, fitful at first and only achieved by intense effort, but gradually increasing in power and constancy, becoming more spontaneous, acting as a check on thoughts and actions, undermining the ego, until finally the ego disappears and the certitude of pure Consciousness remains.” 
― Ramana Maharshi, Collected works of Ramana Maharshi

“Because of the grades in misery and happiness, the released ones, the jivanmuktas and videhamuktas, may be spoken of as belonging to four categories — Brahmavid, Brahmavara, Brahmavariya and Brahmavarishtha. But these distinctions are from the standpoint of the others who look at them; in reality, however, there are no distinctions in release gained through jnana.” 
― Ramana Maharshi, Collected works of Ramana Maharshi

Remaining quiet is what is called wisdom-insight. To remain quiet is to resolve the mind in the Self. Telepathy, knowing past, present and future happenings and clairvoyance do not constitute wisdom-insight.” 
― Ramana Maharshi, Collected works of Ramana Maharshi