Self Development Quotes

Our true reality is not a limited phenomenon, existing only between birth and death. It is eternal life that exists alone, self-existent and self-sufficient, the essence of all that is, was, and ever will be throughout the universe. That is what you really are.

~ Ilchi Lee

If people begin to use the full power of conscience in all the choices they make in their everyday life, from presidential elections to purchasing things in the grocery store, the world will change.

~ Ilchi Lee

Absolute values are the things that are important whether you like them or not. Relative values depend on social contexts and personal preferences and conditions of life. Our current market system pursues relative transient values at the cost of absolute lasting values.

~ Ilchi Lee

A more truthful perception may be seen from the perspective of the whole - what we really are, beyond names, roles, education, religion and other information added to our true nature.

~ Ilchi Lee

We need to look carefully at what we value, what we have, and what we desire to make sure these are really important to us and represent what we truly want.

~ Ilchi Lee

To recover the purest Zero mind, and cosmic consciousness, we first have to attain an earth consciousness.

~ Ilchi Lee

We use our minds in a way similar to how we use a scale - it tells us its worth, its value. But what if the scale has not been accurately recalibrated to zero? What if you had forgotten to remove mental and emotional baggage?

~ Ilchi Lee

Recalibration of the mind means clearing our perceptions and recovering our capacity for pure observation.

~ Ilchi Lee

When we look at something, we are often not aware of who is perceiving, and unaware of the mental-emotional filter created by past experiences, hopes and expectations.

~ Ilchi Lee

Conscience is the absolute truthfulness perceived, which comes from Nothing, our true nature, and as such reflects things exactly the way they are.

~ Ilchi Lee

Recalibration comes from experiencing Nothingness, being open to emptiness as the ultimate reality and our nature. It is the purest mind, the Energy-Consciousness itself.

~ Ilchi Lee

Religion is not God himself or herself. It is a system of teaching about God, an explanation of God’s way to human minds. But God doesn’t need explanations to exist.

~ Ilchi Lee

If somebody asks me what enlightenment is, I say that it is simply recovering conscience.

~ Ilchi Lee

What is missing in our economic system is a central value that can encompass everything that can be transacted and used to assign the proper relative value to everything.

~ Ilchi Lee

Relatively speaking, science can provide reliable standards to verify truth in a physical, material sense, but values are not its strength. What one generation takes to be true is debunked and made obsolete by new discoveries.

~ Ilchi Lee

If we see our relationship to this planet in a wide perspective, one thing is clear: we belong to this planet, not the other way around.

~ Ilchi Lee

Rather than the kind of change that takes what we already have and augments it, like power to our cars and speed to our computers, I believe the kind of change we need now is a change of direction.

~ Ilchi Lee

Breathing well means breathing more slowly and deeply. Relax, feel your breathing, and breathe comfortably. Once aware, it naturally becomes deeper and slower.

~ Ilchi Lee

By becoming aware of how you eat your eating will become a rich experience blessed with tasteful flavor, joyful texture, a deep sense of gratitude, and pleasurable contentment.

~ Ilchi Lee

While sleeping, we’re free to be what we really are, nothing more, nothing less.

~ Ilchi Lee

Before you sleep, experience yourself as what you really are by recognizing the vast space inside you, and feeling the Energy-Consciousness, LifeParticles, overflowing through the space and through your body.

~ Ilchi Lee

There is much work to be done, and we are the ones privileged to do it.

~ Ilchi Lee

We did not - and could not - purchase Earth with money. We have just been granted temporary stewardship.

~ Ilchi Lee

We are currently too attached to our worldly toys, rather than to the lessons our playing could impart to further the maturity of our collective soul.

~ Ilchi Lee

Before we ask the cosmos for the power to have all our thoughts manifest, we need to train ourselves to become more aware, or mindful, of our thoughts, and think wisely enough to use this power for the benefit of all.

~ Ilchi Lee

Given that you desire to change things in your life much bigger than particles, how long do you maintain your observation and how much mental power do you invest in observing those things?

~ Ilchi Lee

Consciousness is part of our nature as sentient beings, but doesn’t mean we are aware at a particular moment. By perceiving our consciousness - becoming conscious of consciousness, we become aware.

~ Ilchi Lee

You know what awareness is only when you are aware. Awareness is the perception of your presence in the now.

~ Ilchi Lee

Awareness, when managed and directed, becomes attention. By turning into attention, awareness becomes localized, and attains a focal point. Because of this feature, attention has the power to direct energy.

~ Ilchi Lee

Attention has its most powerful expression in purposeful action.

~ Ilchi Lee

Thoughts become things? True, but that analysis is not complete - we need to add two more words: thoughts become things through energy.

~ Ilchi Lee

The best among us are not more gifted than the rest. They just take small steps each day as they march towards their biggest life.

~ Robin S. Sharma

The source of all the problems in the world is ignorance - the limited view point or narrow mindedness or the conditioned state of mind. As the individual learn the fundamental truths of life and move up in the scale of life, to that extent his/her ignorance go away and become open/free.

~ Thomas Vazhakunnathu

We create our life moment by moment. Only those things that can match our inner vibrational frequency can come into our life.

~ Thomas Vazhakunnathu

Many do not have the courage to face the truth of life and instead dwell upon some delusions to escape it. Any such escapism is a major hurdle in spiritual development.

~ Thomas Vazhakunnathu

We become a master of something only when we know the truth of it. Similarly, when we know the truth of our soul and the oneness of the Universe then we are a Master of Life.

~ Thomas Vazhakunnathu

When we understand the mechanism of life then we can cooperate with it and live an abundant life.

~ Thomas Vazhakunnathu

When we change, our environment also has to change so as to be in alignment with what we are.

~ Thomas Vazhakunnathu

When we realize the truth that every creation is an individualized portion of the Creator and we are always one with It then we are ready to live in harmony.

~ Thomas Vazhakunnathu

Mind can comprehend things only at its particular level of vibration. As the mind become calm and quiet it can see and understand deeper things.

~ Thomas Vazhakunnathu