American Mystic Quotes

“The sense of other rises out of the sense of I and in counter distinction, the sense of I is dependent upon the sense of others. The moment you give rise to the notion of “I,” you feel the “I” is other than the all-ness out of which it rises, and all of the other apparent “I’s,” meaning all the other bodies that are houses for “I’s.” “I” and “Other” give rise to the notion of duality and are the basic ingredients of it.”
― A. Ramana, American Mystic: Memoirs of a Happy Man

“Ramana: I was able to see them; I was able to know that they were there, but they didn’t go away. In other words, when you move into the state of awareness, it doesn’t mean that things in the world go away. Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi said to his devotees, “I’m not telling you to close your eyes to what‘s going on, you’re going to see what’s going on, you’re going to know what’s going on, but eventually you’re not going to be affected by it like you would ordinarily be.” I went through a phase in which I was beginning to let go, although it didn’t happen overnight. I would stay with Self-Inquiry. Each time something would come up, one of these pulls on my mind and attachments, I would watch it. I could see it happening. Over time, it did not affect me as much as it once had. It took a while; it was a gradual thing before it was finally gone. Saroja: That’s”
― A. Ramana, American Mystic: Memoirs of a Happy Man

“may not be absolutely apparent even to one who has awakened into the Self, but it begins to become real or known or seen the longer one remains in the pure awareness of being, as the pure awareness of being, and it becomes fully known with liberation when there is no longer identification with the body and the mind as the Self.”
― A. Ramana, American Mystic: Memoirs of a Happy Man

“What mainly happens to the one who is awakened is compassion”
― A. Ramana, American Mystic: Memoirs of a Happy Man

“that causes the upset; our naming it as “upset,” and thereby seeing it as being that, is the creation in us of it as “upset.” That is so simple and so profound once we really get it and that is how we can free ourselves in the moment from whatever that is upsetting to us, thereby being totally free! But”
― A. Ramana, American Mystic: Memoirs of a Happy Man

“emotion because the events themselves have brought it up in the moment, just like sorrow can be an appropriate emotion in the moment, because of the situation that has brought it about. The main thing is, as Bhagavan would say: “Don’t be the doer of your actions, of your feelings; don’t identify with them as a “me.” They are just the feelings, the emotions that are occurring in the moment. Stay prior to them.” Yes, there will still be the feeling of them, but you don’t lose yourself. Awareness is there while engaged in such thoughts and feelings.”
― A. Ramana, American Mystic: Memoirs of a Happy Man

“emotion because the events themselves have brought it up in the moment, just like sorrow can be an appropriate emotion in the moment, because of the situation that has brought it about. The main thing is, as Bhagavan would say: “Don’t be the doer of your actions, of your feelings; don’t identify with them as a “me.” They are just the feelings, the emotions that are”
― A. Ramana, American Mystic: Memoirs of a Happy Man

“appropriate”
― A. Ramana, American Mystic: Memoirs of a Happy Man

“Ramana: But while I’m feeling anger, while it’s going on, it’s being felt without there being a “me” here that is feeling it, meaning a separate individual “me.” It’s an appropriate”
― A. Ramana, American Mystic: Memoirs of a Happy Man

“You see them as an expression of yourself; they’re the same thing that you are. They’re formed by their minds. What makes them different is their minds are formed in different configurations of beliefs, notions, ideas, than maybe your mind is, but still they are the same as you. They’re not different in truth than you; they’re only different in form than you.”
― A. Ramana, American Mystic: Memoirs of a Happy Man

“learn how to see right side up. For a period of time you go through an adjustment. Is that helping?”
― A. Ramana, American Mystic: Memoirs of a Happy Man

“when you’re looking in the mirror, you never see yourself as other people see you. Do this right”
― A. Ramana, American Mystic: Memoirs of a Happy Man

“what is important is to give up the attachment to things. Today,”
― A. Ramana, American Mystic: Memoirs of a Happy Man

“We have to use words in order to try to communicate in duality, words are necessary, but remember that words are only pointers to the qualities and states of consciousness. Awareness itself is prior to any qualities or states of consciousness.”
― A. Ramana, American Mystic: Memoirs of a Happy Man

“I started to go to sleep every night asking myself “How would it be to feel as Jesus felt knowing - not believing - that I am the son of God and I and the father are one?” I would ask that question and enter into the sleep state. PART 3 Self-Realization”
― A. Ramana, American Mystic: Memoirs of a Happy Man

“had made Jesus come alive even more for me. In particular Your Faith is Your Fortune, The Power of Awareness, Seedtime and Harvest and, The Law and the Promise were absolutely captivating.”
― A. Ramana, American Mystic: Memoirs of a Happy Man

“knew from Neville that all one had to do was awaken the feeling within oneself of what it would feel like to already have, do or be whatever it was that you wanted. When you awakened it in consciousness, and held on to that feeling, it would naturally manifest in the world.”
― A. Ramana, American Mystic: Memoirs of a Happy Man

“It was Neville Goddard who gave me the way and the means to have this happen. He was the first person that I had met that I recognized was coming from a much higher state of consciousness than me. I considered him to be an awakened being and he was far more significant in my life than anyone else had been up to that point.”
― A. Ramana, American Mystic: Memoirs of a Happy Man