--- title: "11 Quiet Quotes By Ramana Maharshi" description: "11 Quiet quotes by Ramana Maharshi. Plus more from Ramana Maharshi and more Quiet sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b9f/ramana-maharshi-915_doe_does-one-require-proof-of-one-s-own-bein_1749224.jpg" --- > [Does one require proof of one's own being? Only remain aware of yourself and all else will be known.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramana-maharshi/does-one-require-proof-of-one-s-own-being-only-remain-aware-of/) [Ramana Maharshi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ramana-maharshi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b9f/ramana-maharshi-915_doe_does-one-require-proof-of-one-s-own-bein_1749224.jpg) > [Because truth is exceedingly subtle and serene, the bliss of the Self can manifest only in a mind rendered subtle and steady…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramana-maharshi/because-truth-is-exceedingly-subtle-and-serene-the-bliss-of-the-self/) [Ramana Maharshi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ramana-maharshi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/99a/ramana-maharshi-915_bliss_because-truth-is-exceedingly-subtle-and_476426.jpg) > [A man does not have to go and find where his eyes are in order to see. The heart is there, always…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramana-maharshi/a-man-does-not-have-to-go-and-find-where-his-eyes-are-in-order-to-see/) [Ramana Maharshi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ramana-maharshi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/db2/ramana-maharshi-915_awareness_a-man-does-not-have-to-go-and-find-where_1572550.jpg) > [You have to ask yourself the question 'Who am I?' This investigation will lead in the end to the discovery of something…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramana-maharshi/you-have-to-ask-yourself-the-question-who-am-i-this-investigation/) [Ramana Maharshi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ramana-maharshi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8e8/ramana-maharshi-915_ask-yourself_you-have-to-ask-yourself-the-question-wh_2308576.jpg) > [In accordance with the prarabdha of each, the One whose function it is to ordain makes each to act. What will not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramana-maharshi/in-accordance-with-the-prarabdha-of-each-the-one-whose-function-it-is/) [Ramana Maharshi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ramana-maharshi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cde/ramana-maharshi-915_certain_in-accordance-with-the-prarabdha-of-each_2460270.jpg) > [If the mind falls asleep, awaken it. Then if it starts wandering, make it quiet. If you reach the state where there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramana-maharshi/if-the-mind-falls-asleep-awaken-it-then-if-it-starts-wandering-make/) [Ramana Maharshi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ramana-maharshi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ce1/ramana-maharshi-915_fall_if-the-mind-falls-asleep-awaken-it-then_203490.jpg) > [There is no reaching the Self. If Self were to be reached, it would mean that the Self is not here and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramana-maharshi/there-is-no-reaching-the-self-if-self-were-to-be-reached-it-would/) [Ramana Maharshi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ramana-maharshi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/506/ramana-maharshi-915_here-and-now_there-is-no-reaching-the-self-if-self-we_1035850.jpg) > [The 'I' casts off the illusion of the 'I' and yet remains 'I'. Such is the paradox of Self-realization. The Realized do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramana-maharshi/the-i-casts-off-the-illusion-of-the-i-and-yet-remains-i-such-is-the/) [Ramana Maharshi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ramana-maharshi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b51/ramana-maharshi-915_approach_the-i-casts-off-the-illusion-of-the-i-an_201741.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) > [That which rises and sinks is made up of what it rises from. The finality of the universe is the God Arunachala.…](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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/de7/ramana-maharshi-915_birth_that-which-rises-and-sinks-is-made-up-of_58352.jpg) > [Concentration is not thinking of one thing. On the contrary, it is excluding all thoughts, since all thoughts obstruct the sense of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramana-maharshi/concentration-is-not-thinking-of-one-thing-on-the-contrary-it-is/) [Ramana Maharshi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ramana-maharshi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/580/ramana-maharshi-915_bliss_concentration-is-not-thinking-of-one-thi_1238301.jpg) ## Other authors on Quiet ## 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/quiet/ramana-maharshi/#itemlist", "name": "11 Quiet Quotes By Ramana Maharshi", "numberOfItems": 11, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Does one require proof of one's own being? 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We are so accustomed to the notion that all that we see around us is permanent and that we are this body, that when all this ceases to exist we imagine and fear that we also have ceased to exist.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Ramana Maharshi" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramana-maharshi/you-are-the-witness-of-the-three-bodies-the-gross-the-subtle-and-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/22f/ramana-maharshi-915_accustomed_you-are-the-witness-of-the-three-bodies_3013451.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/22f/ramana-maharshi-915_accustomed_you-are-the-witness-of-the-three-bodies_3013451.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/22f/ramana-maharshi-915_accustomed_you-are-the-witness-of-the-three-bodies_3013451.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“You are the witness of the three bodies: the gross, the subtle, and the causal, and of the three times…” — Ramana Maharshi", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 10, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "That which rises and sinks is made up of what it rises from. The finality of the universe is the God Arunachala. Meditating on Him or on the seer, the Self, there is a mental vibration 'I' to which all are reduced. Tracing the source of 'I', the primal 'I-I' alone remains over, and it is inexpressible. The seat of Realisation is within and the seeker cannot find it as an object outside him. That seat is bliss and is the core of all beings. Hence it is called the Heart. The only useful purpose of the present birth is to turn within and realise it. There is nothing else to do.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Ramana Maharshi" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramana-maharshi/that-which-rises-and-sinks-is-made-up-of-what-it-rises-from-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/de7/ramana-maharshi-915_birth_that-which-rises-and-sinks-is-made-up-of_58352.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/de7/ramana-maharshi-915_birth_that-which-rises-and-sinks-is-made-up-of_58352.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/de7/ramana-maharshi-915_birth_that-which-rises-and-sinks-is-made-up-of_58352.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“That which rises and sinks is made up of what it rises from. 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