Self Development Quotes

With the muscles of our body, we can lift and move heavy things. With the muscle of integrity, we can turn intention into powerful action. That’s how we can earn trust from our conscience, and can truly believe in ourselves.

~ Ilchi Lee

Our true nature doesn’t need any explanation or demonstration to know itself. It just knows because knowing is part of its nature.

~ Ilchi Lee

Conscience, the divine nature within us, sees everything as connected, what’s good for all is always its priority.

~ Ilchi Lee

Breathing is the master key of life.

~ Ilchi Lee

Once we learn to control our mind,It becomes easy to control our life.

~ Sudesh Abrol

The ancient teaching of Tao tells us that knowing what you really are is wisdom, and living it is virtue.

~ Ilchi Lee

The intention to be absolutely truthful and the willingness to put the benefit of all before personal benefit hold the power to change the world.

~ Ilchi Lee

Differentiation is a universal struggle that all human beings face if they wish to fully develop themselves as individuals.

~ Lisa Firestone

The essence of enlightenment … is a big understanding, which gives you a deep and wide perspective to see the world as a whole, and a capacity to accept with compassion all that is. 11/26

~ Ilchi Lee

What is enlightenment? In the Korean tradition of Tao, it is known a Mu-Ah (Mu means “No” or “Nothing” and Ah means “Me”). It is no-me-ness, or egoless-ness. It means realizing the true, unchanging nature of the person you happen to be.

~ Ilchi Lee

With great responsibility comes great power.

~ Sean O'donoghue Morgan

Behind our behaviors are our beliefs. They determine how we think things are and what is possible. The foundation of these beliefs is our conception of who we are, whether we are conscious of it or not.

~ Ilchi Lee

Thoughts become things through action. The most powerful tool for creating changes in your life is attention and action. No action means no creation.

~ Ilchi Lee

Meditation is a powerful way to enhance your attention, develop your ability to think mindfully, and to use the unlimited creative potential of your mind.

~ Ilchi Lee

Action is something you do purposefully with attention. If you really want something, you will use as much energy for it, and you will use it through action.

~ Ilchi Lee

The universe likes change. All that appears solid and substantial is built on the shifting sands of ceaseless transformation on the quantum level. Ironically, that’s the one steady factor about the universe - it is always changing, which means our efforts to change are supported by the very nature of Life.

~ Ilchi Lee

The only thing you need to be present here and now is your breathing. When you feel your breath, your mind is with your body.

~ Ilchi Lee

When your breath is slow and deep, your mind calm, raise your hands and focus on your palms. You will feel the subtle energy that connects body and mind: LifeParticles.

~ Ilchi Lee

Be aware of your breathing and breathe naturally. This will lead you into unity with the great flow of Life, your true nature.

~ Ilchi Lee

The deeper and slower your breathing becomes, the more space you will create inside you. Eventually, it will become so big that all your thoughts and emotions look trivial in the vastness of your inner space.

~ Ilchi Lee

By attuning your breathing, you can become one with the natural rhythm of life that flows through you all the time.

~ Ilchi Lee

You are infinite intelligence, creativity and Energy-Consciousness which gives you the power and wisdom to attain fulfillment and completion in life.

~ Ilchi Lee

The moment you choose your vision, great confliction comes along. You have confliction even if you don't choose the vision. Our soul grows not by living life within a small confliction, but rather living with big conflictions inside a big vision. A soul with a vision can succeed.

~ Ilchi Lee

Some changes we can control, but we find that many things are inseparably wired into the life we share in local, national, and global communities. For example, the healthy lifestyle you are determined to live and take to be a personal choice of which you have control, is heavily influenced and limited by the culture and industries of the communities you belong to.

~ Ilchi Lee

Although we have refined our behavior over many centuries, the basic perception that we are individual beings, separate from the rest of the world, remains unchanged, and so how we relate to the world remains unchanged. Because separation is an illusion, control is also an illusion.

~ Ilchi Lee

How do we meditate? It is not thinking about the past or future. It starts with being present.

~ Ilchi Lee

The life I am experiencing, good or bad, is the collective result of the choices I have made, knowingly or unknowingly. When I accept this, I acknowledge that I have the power to create my destiny.

~ Ilchi Lee

Make your mind quiet of disturbing thoughts by focusing on subtle energy on your palms, inside your body and all around.

~ Ilchi Lee

When you experience being present, there is no separation between you and other things. If you feel separate, you are already out of the present and returned to your familiar land of names and concepts.

~ Ilchi Lee

The common factor in all our experiences is wakeful consciousness which turns what happens into an experience or a meaningful reality.

~ Ilchi Lee

Consciousness is not confined within an individual brain. Otherwise, how can it cause changes in the physical state of things outside the brain?

~ Ilchi Lee

Consciousness can travel through space or can be present at multiple locations simultaneously. A conscious mind here can create a material change there, and is not limited by time and space or any physical forces.

~ Ilchi Lee

Consciousness has power to create physical changes and requires no other medium than itself. It can reach the entire universe, inferring that consciousness energy is the very nature of the universe.

~ Ilchi Lee

Because consciousness has no mass and extension, no parts or physical properties, it is Nothing, which on the other hand, can generate the matter and energy of the entire universe.

~ Ilchi Lee

LifeParticles are the particles of Nothingness that have attributes of being and nonbeing, and the particles of energy and consciousness, which are the essence of Life.

~ Ilchi Lee

Perhaps we have been dependent too long on language and thought, and need to reawaken our inherent sense of the subtle vibration of Energy-Consciousness. All you have to do is unblock the blocked parts and awaken the sleeping parts of your being to access it.

~ Ilchi Lee

The language of Energy-Consciousness, LifeParticles, can be universal for all life-forms. To enliven it ask yourself, “How would I feel if …” and just feel - how other people feel, how the oceans, forests, animals and the Earth feel. Through this language, you can deliver your feeling and intent to others and consciously experience your connection to all beings.

~ Ilchi Lee

Many of the most profound discoveries were reported to have come through intuition rather than sequential analysis processed by linguistic understanding.

~ Ilchi Lee

All beings are made up of LifeParticles, and ceaselessly interact and communicate on this deeper level of reality. Through this connection, all beings affect and reflect each other. Whatever we do, we do to ourselves. Whatever comes out of us comes back.

~ Ilchi Lee

As a phenomenon, life has a beginning and ending, but life itself doesn’t. So, which one is truly me - a phenomenon that lasts only between birth and death, or life itself that underlies all phenomena?

~ Ilchi Lee