Self Realization Quotes

My response to stress is just as complex as my artwork.

~ Efrat Cybulkiewicz

...the rationale for the existence of literature lies precisely in its ability to work on issues that concern us deeply. And it does so in a way that keeps our motivation at its highest intensity. Literature is fuel for 'hot cognition.' One may presume that imaginative literature is a property that all human cultures possess and as such may provide humans with an evolutionary advantage.

~ Mette Hjort

Any person whom seeks to live a historical existence must devote their efforts to learning about the world, care about people and nature, and seek to express their thoughts in the artistic methodology most appropriate to their particular talent. A person cannot fake self-awareness or imitate an artistic nature. A person must honestly earn a heightened level of conscious awareness.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

A person can escape an ingrained pattern of mental incapacity or ‘non compos mentis’ (“no power of the mind”) by reading, writing, thinking, and studying their environment for telling external determinates that will shape a journey of the mind, body, and soul.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Good fiction often gives us characters in extremity, which ironically gives us a clearer mirror in which to see ourselves.

~ Sarah Van Arsdale

We encounter many sacred souls while reading.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It is better for you to read the Holy Bible, for your own enlightenment.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Self-knowledge, a spiritual metamorphosis, precedes understanding other people and comprehending the beauty of being part of the spontaneous interplay of the natural world.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Daily reading of scriptures is essential for your spiritual growth.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The whole world believes that performing good deeds is dharma (religion). Performing good deeds is known as laukik dharma (worldly religion, that religion which does not lead us to self-realization but binds merit karmas).

~ Dada Bhagwan

As long as there is (worldly) selfish interest, there is no unity. Unity is attained with the ultimate intent of the Self [the intent of attaining self-realization, liberation].

~ Dada Bhagwan

Nothing can touch the one who is oodasin (one unperturbed by worldly life). After attaining Knowledge of the Self, if one applies awareness of the Self, one can remain unperturbed (oodasin).

~ Dada Bhagwan

For infinite lives, one has been wandering around, and once in a while, he will attain a human birth. But there his back will hurt. He will have created obstacles such that he will not be able to eat, even when he is served a plate full of food. This is how it is! So think before you take any steps (before you do anything).

~ Dada Bhagwan

The one whose ego of doer-ship in the unfolding karma effect (oodai no garva) is gone, he is said to have attained the Self.

~ Dada Bhagwan

One who does not join in with the unfolding karmic effects (karma oodai) is a Gnani (Self-realized), and an agnani (non-Self-realized) cannot indeed refrain from joining in with the unfolding karmic effects.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Unless the Self is known, the power of the Self (swasatta) cannot arise.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Whatever the other person sees according to his view-point, you have to accept it. How can we make others accept our view-point?

~ Dada Bhagwan

The ‘knowledge’ (gnan) that was resulting into ‘the things to be known’ (gneya), when that ‘knowledge’ results in the ‘Knower’ (gnata), this is known as Self-Realization [Atma Gnan].

~ Dada Bhagwan

The Agna, liberating instructions of the 'Gnani' [the enlightened one], purifies the mind. Knowledge of the Self [self realization] will give the mind, solutions in every circumstance.

~ Dada Bhagwan

The [true] intellectual is he who does not let harm done to others and nor let any harm done to even one's own self.

~ Dada Bhagwan

To attain the Self is indeed called the right belief (samkit).

~ Dada Bhagwan

What is the benefit of egoism? It is only through the benefit of egoism that people get their daughters married, get their sons married, walk around as a father and say ‘mine, mine’! The entire world is enjoying the benefit of egoism. The Gnanis (Self-realized) enjoy the benefit of the Self.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Whatever one does without the right belief (samkit - Self-realization) will lead to karmic bondage. Even when he gives to charity or shows kindness, it is all karma bondage.

~ Dada Bhagwan

One will have to know the Self. Unless Self is known, God [Allah] cannot be attained. The power of Self should be attained. The power of Self is an abode of infinite bliss. There is no unhappiness there at all. This happiness is there even if someone insults you!

~ Dada Bhagwan

If there is true ‘Selfishness,’ then there is ‘liberation of the Self’, and that indeed is one’s own form (the Self).

~ Dada Bhagwan

If there is wrong [ill] on the inside, the outside will appear wrong. Therefore, you should inquire within ‘why am I bothered, when others are not? So there must be wrong within me only.

~ Dada Bhagwan

To be able to see one’s own faults, this is known as Enlightened vision (Samkit, Self-realization, right belief).

~ Dada Bhagwan

What is the difference between aradhana (worship) and bhajana (to be one with)? Aradhana (worship) means the attention will go over and over again there, and bhajana (oneness) means continuous engrossment. One is to do aradhana (worship) and bhajana (oneness) for only one’s own Self; everything else will carry on naturally.

~ Dada Bhagwan

This is one place an opinion has to be made: that this body is a betrayal.

~ Dada Bhagwan

If one knows how to ‘digest’ an insult after attaining Self-realization, he will become a ‘Gnani’ [the enlightened one]. And if he ‘digests’ an insult before attaining Self-realization, he will become shameless (impudent).

~ Dada Bhagwan

Those vibrations that we created have indeed fall upon us. Only those acts that were done in the ignorant (Self unawareness) state, that has given us reactions.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Until Self-realization is attained; it is not worth having a fixed-view at any place, it is not worth having habitual-devotion at any place and it is not worth stopping anywhere.

~ Dada Bhagwan

We shall know the truth and the truth shall free our souls.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You must hunger for spiritual food.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Your call to power is to slow down and reflect within. Gather the peace within yourself before you go out and act among the world. The feel good feeling that lasts is only achieved when you yourself know peace. Nothing is more powerful. This is why you have the highs and lows, the mood swings, the transcendent ecstasy followed by the crash. It is because you have yet to develop a foundation of peace for yourself that acts as an unmovable anchor in your life. Establish this peace in your life and you will experience a whole new reality of the world that flows with you in every way possible, rather than against you.

~ Alaric Hutchinson

Be the light in every dark corner.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Walk on the sacred path.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I fly on the wings of love.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Grow stronger in spirit.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Our reality is colored by our vibration and belief systems. In other words, the experiences we have in the world with other people are dictated by the energy we bring with us wherever we go.

~ Alaric Hutchinson