Self Realization Quotes

If you never try, you will never know what it means to succeed.

~ Belle Ami

Know the true definition of yourself. That is essential.Then, when you know your own definition, flee from it.

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

For man, mind is the cause of bondage and mind is the cause of liberation. Mind absorbed in sense objects is the cause of bondage, and mind detached from the sense objects is the cause of liberation.

~ A.c. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda

My dear Arjuna, only by undivided devotional service can I be understood as I am, standing before you, and can thus be seen directly. Only in this way can you enter into the mysteries of My understanding.

~ A.c. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda

The Buddhists or the Jains do not depend upon God; but the whole force of their religion is directed to the great central truth in every religion, to evolve a God out of man. They have not seen the Father, but they have seen the Son. And he that hath seen the Son hath seen the Father also.

~ Swami Vivekananda

Because everybody has a conscience, whether or not we can be great beings is not determined merely by its presence in us . Instead, it is determined by the choice to acknowledge its presence and follow its lead

~ Ilchi Lee

The honest to God truth is that I'm mad at myself. I should've known better.

~ Miranda Kenneally

There is nothing like discovering your own secrets in someone else’s story. Those thoughts and feelings you believed were too ugly or strange or idealistic or desperate or whimsical or hungry or sad they had to be just you because there could be no other place for them, anywhere. Books that make you realize you’re not alone, you never were. Those are the ones I like best.

~ Courtney Summers

The solitary speaks.One receives as a reward for much ennui , ill-humour and boredom, such as a solitude without friends, books, duties or passions must entail, one harvests those quarters of an hour of the deepest immersion in oneself and nature. He who completely entrenches himself against boredom also entrenches himself against himself: he will never get to drink the most potent refreshing draught from the deepest well of his own being.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

For sense gratification, a man in the mode of passion wants some honor in society, or in the nation, and he wants to have a happy family, with nice children, wife and house. These are the products of the mode of passion. As long as one is hankering after these things, he has to work very hard. Therefore it is clearly stated here that he becomes associated with the fruits of his activities and thus becomes bound by such activities. In order to please his wife, children and society and to keep up his prestige, one has to work. Therefore the whole material world is more or less in the mode of passion.

~ A.c. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda

When you feel hatred towards your life, hate it. See how it will actually do something to your life.

~ Ade Santi

Sometimes we need to look at everything going wrong in our lives and admit to ourselves, I am the only common denominator here.

~ Dan Pearce

O son of Kunti, the nonpermanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of winter and summer seasons. They arise from sense perception, O scion of Bharata, and one must learn to tolerate them without being disturbed.

~ A.c. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda

If you say one thing, and do something different, how can your conscience trust you? Self-trust comes from integrity.

~ Ilchi Lee

Don't be the slave for the society, be the entrepreneur for yourself.

~ Ade Santi

The humans lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, and so hard for us to show them how we feel.

~ John Green

Remove your blindfold-you can see bread or gold where others see stone

~ Ikechukwu Joseph

A true Brahmachari will not even dream of satisfying the fleshly appetite

~ Mahatma Gandhi

At this time in history, sick, afraid, and despondent are the general conditions that affect the majority of poeple almost everywhere. It's difficult and challenging to follow the call of conscience when we're under the dark veil of these forces. At the same time, it's painful not to follow it.When you become healthy, courageous, and hopeful, following your conscience becomes easier. When people are healthy, courageous, and hopeful, it's difficult to bend their mind and will. You can't force them to do what you'd like them to do against their will. They will speak out what they believe, and stand up and do what is right even when it means a loss to them.I am hopeful because I have witnessed this change throughout my life. From the realization of what I really am, I became hopeful, courageous, and passionate for life, and I felt responsible for the general condition of humanity and the Earth because they are not separate from me.

~ Ilchi Lee

Ultimately, it's my choice and only my choice.

~ J.a. Redmerski

Satori - in the awakening from a dream. Awakening and self-realization and seeing into one's own being - these are synonymous.

~ Bruce Lee

I spent too long worrying about what other people think.

~ Miranda Kenneally

A paradox is a storm that rains on itself.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Self-realization or self-knowing or awakening is about knowing/ becoming conscious of our true nature and living in harmony with the universe in an ever ascending order.

~ Thomas Vazhakunnathu

You are what you believe as expressed by what you do

~ Amine A. Ayad

The word genius was whispered into my ear the first things I ever Heard while I was still mewling in my crib, laughs Orson (Welles), so it never occured to me that I wasn't until middle age

~ Barbara Leaming

Maybe it's me. Maybe I don't know how to have fun.

~ Louise Rozett

I do not take advice or listen to the words of hypocrites or beings that are not self-realized. It's nothing personal. I am simply no fan of beings that try to sound wise, while trying to mask their imbecility.

~ Lionel Suggs

The person who fights monsters should make sure that in the process, he does not become a monster himself. Because when you stare down at an abyss, the abyss stares back at you.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

There's a way, a way way too long but reachable, not for everyone a way but possible... Go and don't lose your way!

~ Rossana Condoleo

He wanted to limit me to his own investigation of who I was . . .

~ Sheridan Hay

All success comes through other people.

~ Bryant Mcgill

All are at war with the one who wars against self.

~ E'yen A. Gardner

When the jīva, reflected consciousness, has its inert association with the body totally destroyed and ignited by the fire of jñāna, it burns in the huge and extensive cremation ground, the cidākāśa. The vision of this excellent effulgence is similar to the sight of an unbounded conflagration that rages when a vast forest, dense with dried trees, catches fire and spreads in all directions.

~ Muruganar

Sooner or later you'll hear what your heart has always been telling you:stop trying to be who you think you should be - become who you are.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

The real problem has to do with the inability by people to admit that a position they've held a long time might be wrong. That's all. Not that it is. Just that it might be. I don't know why it is, but we tend to fall in love with things we believe, Threaten them, and you threaten us.

~ Jack Mcdevitt

I'm afraid to go into myself and see what's going on in there.

~ Muriel Barbery

You know how sometimes you can be going along and do something or say something, and suddenly you *know* yourself? I mean, it's like you're looking at somebody else, and it's just so fucking clear you want to hit something.

~ Sarah Monette

There are no ordinary people. The blur or everyday reality has created a world in which most of us have forgotten our unique and sacred existence...it is [our] true self, once discovered, that enables us to understand more clearly the nature of our world, and our own existence.

~ Kim Chestney

Who but the Atman is capable of removing the bonds of ignorance, passion and self-interested action?

~ Adi Shankaracarya