The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness. Abraham Maslow (1908 – 1970)
Ramara Maharshi Quote – “Happiness is your nature…”
Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside. Ramana Maharshi (1879 – 1950)
Ramana Maharshi Quote – “When we stop regarding the unreal as real…”
We loosely talk of self-realization, for lack of a better term. But how can one realize or make real that which alone is real? All we need to do is to give up our habit of regarding as real that which is unreal. All religious practices are meant solely to help us do this. When we stop regarding the unreal […]
Ramana Maharshi Quote – “Every living being longs always to be happy…”
Every living being longs always to be happy, untainted by sorrow; and everyone has the greatest love for himself, which is solely due to the fact that happiness is his real nature. Hence, in order to realize that inherent and untainted happiness, which indeed he daily experiences when the mind is subdued in deep sleep, it is essential that he […]
Ramana Maharshi Quote – “Just drop all seeking…”
God dwells in you, as you, and you don’t have to “do” anything to be God-realized or Self-realized, it is already your true and natural state. Just drop all seeking, turn your attention inward, and sacrifice your mind to the One Self radiating in the Heart of your very being. For this to be your own presently lived experience, Self-Inquiry […]
Ramana Maharshi Quote – “There is no greater mystery than this…”
There is no greater mystery than this, that we keep seeking reality though in fact we are reality. We think that there is something hiding reality and that this must be destroyed before reality is gained. How ridiculous! A day will dawn when you will laugh at all your past efforts. That which will be the day you laugh is […]
George MacDonald Quote – “All the doors that lead inward to the secret place…”
All the doors that lead inward to the secret place of the most high are doors outward: out of self — out of smallness — out of wrong. George MacDonald (1824 – 1905)
Henri J. M. Nouwen Quote – “Solitude is the furnace of transformation…”
Solitude is the furnace of transformation. Without solitude we remain victims of our society and continue to be entangled in the illusions of the false self. Henri J. M. Nouwen (1932 – 1996)
Maurice Nicoll Quote – “A man must relate himself to new forces…”
A man must relate himself to new forces, coming from that which he has not realized, through seeing things differently, through touching ideas that have transforming power and that can only be proved by his own experience of them and never evidentially by an appeal to the outer world of the sense. Maurice Nicoll (1884 – 1953)
Maurice Nicoll Quote – “Change of being is not a patchwork process…”
I imagined that unity of being could be reached within the customary state of consciousness. I believed, in other words, that a radical change of being could take place as one was, merely through some adjustments. This is probably what most of us think, for we do not realize that in order to change anything in ourselves everything else must […]