Quotes Tagged "self-realization"

Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.

Keep your best wishes, close to your heart and watch what happens

It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.

Happiness is part of who we are. Joy is the feeling

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?

Often, it’s not about becoming a new person, but becoming the person you were meant to be, and already are, but don’t know how to be.

I am who I am; no more, no less.

Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world.

He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.

She remembered who she was and the game changed.

If it is bread that you seek, you will have bread. If it is the soul you seek, you will find the soul. If you understand this secret, you know you are that which you seek.

Never underestimate the power you have to take your life in a new direction.

Faith in God is optional, but faith in the self – in the spirit within, is imperative.

There is a God part in you. The consciousness. The pure Self. Learn to listen the voice of that Power.

I want to help you to grow as beautiful as God meant you to be when He thought of you first.

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.

What is Self-realization? It is giving up the pretension that you are not the Self, that you are a mere body. People say to me, 'You are God Himself.' I reply, 'You are also He.' 'We are not He'-they rejoin. What else is this, but that they simulate and, for some lila of their own, hide behind a mask their real and divine nature?

In seeking God, you discover she is now-here and everywhere - in every heart, in every breath, in every thought, and in every pulse of the Universe. You are neither the body nor the mind, and the love of the self in you is the love for the God in you - the supreme witnessing self.

Student: How does Self-realization of an individual help society? Ramdas: By Self-realization you become happy inwardly and therefore seek nothing from outside. So, your activities flow out only for the uplift and good of others. A man who is discontented within seeks for external things in order to get happiness, and so doing, harms society. He thinks he will get happiness from external objects. When you have found true happiness by realizing the Self, that is, by realizing that your true nature is absolute peace and bliss, you are not in conflict with anybody, your vision is equal and your activities turn to the service of everyone. Then it is that you become the true instrument of God.

Only you can take inner freedom away from yourself, or give it to yourself. Nobody else can.