Self Realization Quotes

Sight is seeing what's there, vision is seeing what's possible

~ Retin Obasohan

Question: You seem to advise me to be self-centered to the point ofegoism. Must I not yield even to my interest in other people?Maharaj: Your interest in others is egoistic, self-concerned, self-oriented. You are not interested in others as persons, but onlyas far as they enrich, or enoble your own image of yourself.And the ultimate in selfishness is to care only for the protection,preservation and multiplication of one's own body. By body Imean all that is related to your name and shape--- your family,tribe, country, race, etc. To be attached to one's name andshape is selfishness. A man who knows that he is neither bodynor mind cannot be selfish, for he has nothing to be selfish for.Or, you may say, he is equally 'selfish' on behalf of everybodyhe meets; everybody's welfare is his own. The feeling 'I am theworld, the world is myself' becomes quite natural; once it is es-tablished, there is just no way of being selfish. To be selfishmeans to covet, to acquire, accumulate on behalf of the partagainst the whole. I Am ThatNisargadatta Maharaj

~ Nisargadatta Maharaj

It is your existential responsibility to raise your child as a human being above everything else – catholic, muslim, jew, asian, caucasian or whatever.

~ Abhijit Naskar

There can never be equality, so long the heavens have decided together with the darkness in the heart of men, such idealistic desire will never come to fruition.

~ Lolah Runda

The greatest crime in human history was not the creation of the armaments of warfare and destruction of life, but the invention of hand mirror, which enticed humankind to peer at their surface appearance instead of seeking spiritual salvation. Prior to the invention of the mirror, people saw themselves through other people’s eyes or by looking deep within themselves.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

We live in everyone. I live in you. You live in me. There is no gap, no distance.

~ Amit Ray

In reality, we live in everyone. I live in you. You live in me. There is no gap, no distance. We all are eternally one.

~ Amit Ray

The greatest life is to share, to sacrifice and to serve.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Human labor, the manual work that people engage in to build their world, both physical and spiritual, defines the realization of their conceptual realm.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

It is only through meditation that we can get lasting peace, divine peace. If we meditate soulfully in the morning and receive peace for only one minute, that one minute of peace will permeate our whole day. And when we have a meditation of the highest order, then we really get abiding peace, light and delight. We need meditation because we want to grow in light and fulfill ourselves in light. If this is our aspiration, if this is our thirst, then meditation is the only way.

~ Sri Chinmoy

If a man realizes who he is, he cannot lose his peace and gladness because he lives at peace with himself

~ Sunday Adelaja

I realized the universe had consumed my whole entity with its divine sensation of eternal bliss. All I could consciously perceive in that state of mind was absolute oneness. I felt being one with the banyan tree, under which I was sitting. I felt one with the corns in the field. I felt one with the sky and the clouds in it. As if everything was me, and I was everything. I didn’t have any perception of time or space. All that there was, was an all- pervading eternity – a state of non-dualism.

~ Abhijit Naskar

The transcendental state of Absolute Oneness sets the human mind free.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Once the lotus of your inner divinity gets full-blown and you reach the mental state where all the religious giants of human history experienced the all-encompassing sense of godliness, the exuberance of the human mind turns infinite. Awakening into that state makes all the perceptual limitations of the mind disappear, just like a bucket of muddy water turns crystal-clear once poured into the ocean.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Enlightenment is making every cell, gene and DNA as the radiator of peace and harmony.

~ Amit Ray

The world has been blind in the presence of artificial lights.They blame about the darkness in broad daylight.

~ Bikash Chaurasiya

Success is a trophy, a title, something gained, attained or retained. Fulfilment, true happiness, contentment.... bliss is the gift of the self-realised. That is the real prize.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

The pathway to enlightenment, transformation and liberation is the heart not the mind.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

You ought to welcome troubled-souls with your peaceful-spirit.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Love begets joy.Joy begets peace.Peace begets patience.Patience begets kindness.Kindness begets goodness.Goodness begets faithfulness.Faithfulness begets gentleness.Gentleness begets self-control.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It is ultimately the ebony of our pain, our blackest monuments, which lead us to seek an enlightened way of living. We are unable to hear the voice leading to our own salvation until we fall into the depths of an abbess manufactured by living a heedless life. From this state of floundering in the gloomy lagoon, we can awaken to find the light bearing the seeds of truth that will redeem us. Looking inward, we overcome stubborn resistance, and we revivify long lost and forgotten powers. The experience of soul-searching perspicacity transfigures us. We might even feel as if we died a spiritual death and then we were reborn. From our dark pit, a shaft of light emerges.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Suffering is the fuel in the engine of civilization.Now he begins to understand: because pain is a god—he has been in the grip of this cruel god ever since Anakin’s death. But it is also a teacher, and a bridge. It can be a slave master, and break you—and it can be the power that makes you unbreakable. It is all these things, and more.At the same time.What it is depends on who you are.But who am I? he wonders. I’ve been running like Dad—like Anakin. I think they stopped, though; I think Dad was strong enough to turn back and face it, to use the pain to make himself stronger, like Mom and Uncle Luke. Anakin did, too, at the end. Am I that strong?There’s only one way to find out.

~ Matthew Woodring Stover

When you think this pain is all you deserve, you are right. You are the only one that can decide how long you will walk in hell.

~ Shannon L. Alder

It takes courage to let go of the past and all the mechanisms you have put in place, in order to ease your pain, regret and fear through avoiding responsibility for it.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Never say you understand someone's pain if you haven't felt the same, because not only would you sound mocking but also ignorant.

~ Lolah Runda

The victory over our inner self is a daily struggle. Be strong and do not give up.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The bond of husband to his wife is divine.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Love is friendship. Love is happiness.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Problem does not lie in being a husband, the problem is with acting as a husband (being bossy).

~ Dada Bhagwan

You must have a level of discontent to feel the urge to want to grow.

~ Idowu Koyenikan

The fullness of potential is a lifetime of self -seeking for the best of being.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

When we come near the light, all the darkness around us, shall disappears.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Fill your mind with the Holy Scripture, that speak life into your life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Is life experiment? Is yours to experience.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I wasn't made with wings so I could fly away. So here I stand, fighting for a brighter day. That fight begins with me.

~ D. Allen Miller

Men treat you, the way you make them treat you.

~ Kate Mcafee

While it is easy to blame the hand of the abuser, when that hand no longer is raised against you, why do you continue to feel the burn of its touch?

~ Deborah Brodie

The foundation stone of all philosophy is self-knowledge and being true to thy self. A person must address an inner necessity in order to realize the fundamental truth about oneself, seek self-improvement, and gain knowledge through experience.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Devote yourself to prayer.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

When you turn your dreams on there is no off switch.

~ Stephen Richards