--- title: "6 Cease Quotes By Ramana Maharshi" description: "6 Cease quotes by Ramana Maharshi. Plus more from Ramana Maharshi and more Cease sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cd7/ramana-maharshi-915_body_the-master-is-within-meditation-is-meant_492654.jpg" --- > [The master is within; meditation is meant to remove the ignorant idea that he is only outside. If he is a stranger…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramana-maharshi/the-master-is-within-meditation-is-meant-to-remove-the-ignorant-idea/) [Ramana Maharshi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ramana-maharshi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cd7/ramana-maharshi-915_body_the-master-is-within-meditation-is-meant_492654.jpg) > [There is a state when words cease and silence prevails.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramana-maharshi/there-is-a-state-when-words-cease-and-silence-prevails/) [Ramana Maharshi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ramana-maharshi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/402/ramana-maharshi-915_cease_there-is-a-state-when-words-cease-and-si_2045306.jpg) > [It is within your competence to think and thus to get bound or to cease thinking and thus be free.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramana-maharshi/it-is-within-your-competence-to-think-and-thus-to-get-bound-or-to/) [Ramana Maharshi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ramana-maharshi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/38e/ramana-maharshi-915_bounds_it-is-within-your-competence-to-think-an_2146419.jpg) > [To ask the mind to kill itself is like making the thief the policeman. He will go with you and pretend to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramana-maharshi/to-ask-the-mind-to-kill-itself-is-like-making-the-thief-the-policeman/) [Ramana Maharshi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ramana-maharshi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/026/ramana-maharshi-915_asks_to-ask-the-mind-to-kill-itself-is-like-m_2883219.jpg) > [You are the witness of the three bodies: the gross, the subtle, and the causal, and of the three times: past, present…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramana-maharshi/you-are-the-witness-of-the-three-bodies-the-gross-the-subtle-and-the/) [Ramana Maharshi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ramana-maharshi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/22f/ramana-maharshi-915_accustomed_you-are-the-witness-of-the-three-bodies_3013451.jpg) > [Turn the mind inward and cease thinking of yourself as the body; thereby you will come to know that the self is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramana-maharshi/turn-the-mind-inward-and-cease-thinking-of-yourself-as-the-body/) [Ramana Maharshi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ramana-maharshi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/776/ramana-maharshi-915_body_turn-the-mind-inward-and-cease-thinking_3163973.jpg) ## Other authors on Cease ## More by Ramana Maharshi > [Then all this earth shines like one house.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramana-maharshi/then-all-this-earth-shines-like-one-house/) [Ramana Maharshi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ramana-maharshi/) > [Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramana-maharshi/silence-is-most-powerful-speech-is-always-less-powerful-than-silence/) [Ramana Maharshi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ramana-maharshi/) > [Meditation is sticking to one thought. That single thought keeps away other thoughts; distraction of mind is a sign of its weakness; by constant…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramana-maharshi/meditation-is-sticking-to-one-thought-that-single-thought-keeps-away/) [Ramana Maharshi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ramana-maharshi/) > [The more you prune a plant, the more it grows. So too the more you seek to annihilate the ego, the more it will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramana-maharshi/the-more-you-prune-a-plant-the-more-it-grows-so-too-the-more-you-seek/) [Ramana Maharshi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ramana-maharshi/) > [Think of God; attachments will gradually drop away. If you wait till all desires disappear before starting your devotion and prayer, you will have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramana-maharshi/think-of-god-attachments-will-gradually-drop-away-if-you-wait-till/) [Ramana Maharshi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ramana-maharshi/) > [That which rises and sinks is made up of what it rises from. The finality of the universe is the God Arunachala. Meditating on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramana-maharshi/that-which-rises-and-sinks-is-made-up-of-what-it-rises-from-the/) [Ramana Maharshi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ramana-maharshi/) > [Food affects the mind. For the practice of any kind of yoga, vegetarianism is absolutely necessary since it makes the mind more pure and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramana-maharshi/food-affects-the-mind-for-the-practice-of-any-kind-of-yoga/) [Ramana Maharshi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ramana-maharshi/) > [The mind of one meditating on a single object becomes one-pointed. And one-pointedness of mind leads to abidance in the self. Real attainment is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramana-maharshi/the-mind-of-one-meditating-on-a-single-object-becomes-one-pointed-and/) [Ramana Maharshi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ramana-maharshi/) > [Eating, bathing, going to the toilet, talking, thinking, and many other activities related to the body are all work. How is it that the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramana-maharshi/eating-bathing-going-to-the-toilet-talking-thinking-and-many-other/) [Ramana Maharshi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ramana-maharshi/) > [Knowing the Self, God is known.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramana-maharshi/knowing-the-self-god-is-known/) [Ramana Maharshi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ramana-maharshi/) > [Every moment there is creation, every moment destruction. There is no absolute creation, no absolute destruction. Both are movement, and that is eternal.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramana-maharshi/every-moment-there-is-creation-every-moment-destruction-there-is-no/) [Ramana Maharshi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ramana-maharshi/) > [The entire Universe is condensed in the body, and the entire body in the Heart. Thus the Heart is the nucleus of the whole…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramana-maharshi/the-entire-universe-is-condensed-in-the-body-and-the-entire-body-in/) [Ramana Maharshi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ramana-maharshi/) > [The state of self-realization, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramana-maharshi/the-state-of-self-realization-as-we-call-it-is-not-attaining/) [Ramana Maharshi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ramana-maharshi/) > [God illumines the mind and shines within it. One cannot know God by means of the mind. One can but turn the mind inwards…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramana-maharshi/god-illumines-the-mind-and-shines-within-it-one-cannot-know-god-by/) [Ramana Maharshi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ramana-maharshi/) > [We are so engrossed with the objects, or appearances revealed by the light, that we pay no attention to the light.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramana-maharshi/we-are-so-engrossed-with-the-objects-or-appearances-revealed-by-the/) [Ramana Maharshi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ramana-maharshi/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/cease/ramana-maharshi/#itemlist", "name": "6 Cease Quotes By Ramana Maharshi", "numberOfItems": 6, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The master is within; meditation is meant to remove the ignorant idea that he is only outside. 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