The world is not outside you. – Ramana Maharshi
No one succeeds without effort… Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance. – Ramana Maharshi

The world is not outside you. – Ramana Maharshi
No one succeeds without effort… Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance. – Ramana Maharshi
The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress. – Ramana Maharshi
Each one of us is alone in the world… We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them. – W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, 1919