Top 100 Sayings About Self Realization
#1. 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
#2. Self-realization is a strange term. You don't actually realize your 'self'. If anything, you go away. The caterpillar enters the cocoon of meditation: A butterfly emerges - metamorphosis.
Frederick Lenz
#3. 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
#6. Those who are actively seeking enlightenment will not find it because the act of looking for it is the distraction from it.
Enza Vita
#7. Problem does not lie in being a husband; the problem is with acting as a husband (being bossy).
Dada Bhagwan
#8. Shed who you think you are, in order to experience who you really are.
Evita Ochel
#9. Don't be self-conscious - other people are completely unaware of you and more concerned with how they appear ...
John Geddes
#12. Know the true definition of yourself. That is essential.
Then, when you know your own definition, flee from it.
Rumi
#13. 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 Prabhupada
#14. 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
#15. Do you wish to take control of your life? Begin by focusing on steering the storm, rather than where the lightening strikes.
Gary Hopkins
#16. What would be the best therapy? Punching the evil sod in the knob! [ ... ]
It doesn't undo it though. You'd feel good for a second and then there's just emptiness. It's like bingeing. After the chocolate there's the wrappers.
Rae Earl
#17. The invitation only world is a manifestation of self-realization.
Bryant McGill
#18. Write it on your heart you are the most beautiful soul of the Universe. Realize it, honor it and celebrate the life.
Amit Ray
#19. Life is a partial, continuous, progressive, multiform and conditionally interactive self-realization of the potentialities of atomic electron states.
John Desmond Bernal
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. Love and self are one and the discovery of either is the realization of both
Leo Buscaglia
#24. Religion is the Self revealing secrets of the Self to the Self.
Abhijit Naskar
#25. The is no such thing as a coincidence, only Godincidence
Tom Herstad
#26. 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
#27. Tantra is only recommended for someone who has a very developed will power, a terrific sense of humor, and a sense that nothing else matters but God and self-realization.
Frederick Lenz
#28. Do not believe a thing because you have read about it in a book. Do not believe a thing because another man has said it was true. Do not believe in words because they are hallowed by tradition. Find out the truth for yourself. Reason it out. That is realization.
Swami Vivekananda
#29. 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
#30. The universe is a gigantic amusement park in which we can have a ride or two.
Stefan Emunds
#32. Thou art but a feeble flower in the garden of the universe, yet thou hath a purpose much greater than thyself.
Raneem Kayyali
#34. Enlightenment is the ability to comprehend ourselves, it is the power to peer into our hearts and minds and reach that state of spiritual bliss, which may or may not lead us to salvation.
Balroop Singh
#35. We were not made to look inward for self-realization, but to look outwards in love. I
Tim Chester
#36. As the leaf takes its time finding the ground so must I.
Cory Basil
#37. Self-realization: No ego, no desires, no weight problems, no tax forms, no death to die, no life to live.
Frederick Lenz
#38. Yoga is not only a process of the integration of the soul, mind, and body for self-improvement, it is a process of self -realization and self -acceptance.
Debasish Mridha
#39. Life's struggles are necessary for growth.
Auliq Ice
#40. We are immortal life. Think of the opportunity of self-realization. What a gas!
Frederick Lenz
#41. The self can only be realized, and the realization can only happen, out of personal experience.
Roshan Sharma
#42. Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance.
Isaac Watts
#43. 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
#44. Thinking beyond the human condition often transcends us from it.
Gary Hopkins
#45. 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 Prabhupada
#46. It's only when we are able to exceed our rigid interpretations, and we start defining love in it's totality, that we realize that love is everywhere
Julian Pencilliah
#48. Self-Empowerment is free to anyone who chooses to use it. It comes from within and nowhere else. You cannot buy it, borrow it, steal it or sell it. It is always available to you and never wears out. The only choice you have to make is whether or not you will use it.
Gary Hopkins
#49. One shouldn't forget his goal ever, whether he has to lose his personality on way to get it. Because to recognize aim and to achieve it, is the real life.
M.H. Rakib
#51. Every soul is a soul. It is the motives, deeds and actions that define the personality of each soul.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#52. While there are many that journey who seek, not all that travel will find, for they are bound by what they have been taught and not of what they know."
- The Tapestry of Spirit
Erik Paul Rocklin
#53. You must learn to control your dreams or your dreams will forever control you.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
#54. When you are angry, do not speak, but close your eyes. You can regain your inner peace with a word of prayer.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#55. I am really inspired by strong, badass, female characters. I would start with a revenge film, then ease into stories of badass everyday woman who make a difference in their own life for the better of people and environment around them. Stories of self realization.
Alicia Sixtos
#56. Why wait? So precious is this life - this gift - this temporary blindness. Burn and drown and embrace the false dark, then grasp the unthinkable height of resulting joy. For in the end, in the light of truth when the flesh is cast off, there is nothing but this.
Jennifer DeLucy
#58. Stop nourishing other people's ideas and beliefs in your life. Take up your own idea and endeavor to accomplish it.
Abhijit Naskar
#60. Realization is our true nature. It is nothing new to be gained. What is new cannot be eternal. Therefore there is no need to be doubting whether we would gain or lose the self.
Ramana Maharshi
#61. To see your-self you must first be yourself, to be your-self you must first know yourself, and to know your-self you must first love your-self more than anything in the world.-Mark Miller
Mark Miller
#62. Sometimes we all get dusty by a few mundane and tiring affairs - and merely need a gentle soul wash to see, and get deeply entangled with, the fervors of life again.
Pawan Mishra
#63. Your attitude determines your altitude and your altitude your accolades, access and success.
Ikechukwu Joseph
#65. Self-realization means to know truth through yourself, and not through others. By seeking God first, through Self-realization, all things-strength, power, prosperity, wisdom, health, and immortality-will be added unto you.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#67. I'm afraid to go into myself and see what's going on in there.
Muriel Barbery
#68. Religion is not a book, it is not an institution, and it is not even a person. True Religion is realization of the self.
Abhijit Naskar
#69. Inside is where we meet everyone else; it's on the outside that we are truly alone.
Charles Simic
#70. Jesus bases everything on God-realization, while other teachers base everything on self-realization.
Oswald Chambers
#71. We loosely talk of Self-realization, for lack of a better term. But how can one realize that which alone is real? All we need to do is to give up our habit of regarding as real that which is unreal. All religious practices are meant solely to help us do this.
Ramana Maharshi
#72. He wanted to limit me to his own investigation of who I was ...
Sheridan Hay
#76. There is a God part in you. The consciousness. The pure Self. Learn to listen the voice of that Power.
Amit Ray
#77. Loyalty to others speaks volumes about loyalty to self. To love others, one must truly love him/herself first.
Peprah Boasiako
#78. 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
#79. If there is true 'Selfishness,' then there is 'liberation of the Self', and that indeed is one's own form (the Self).
Dada Bhagwan
#80. Self-realization is, in fact, the only religion. For it is the true purpose of religion, no matter how people define their beliefs.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#81. He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
Confucius
#83. Our ultimate dharma is self-realization. Thoughts and actions that support our spiritual evolution are real dharma.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#85. We may experience a realization of our true Self the first time we meditate, but most often the process of awakening is gradual.
Deepak Chopra
#86. It is the man who loves reading books who gets to know himself
Ndiritu Wahome
#87. A selfish person can still love someone else, can't they? Even when they've hurt them and let them down.
Rosamund Lupton
#88. Our mind takes an inventory of past events and uses them to project the probability of success in the future. Depending on the information it gathers, we either move forward - or the
fear response is triggered and forward progress is circumvented. Page 48
Nick Ortner
#90. Success is never a place or position but a new state of self-realization.
Debasish Mridha
#91. The only voice of dissent you have to dispel is your own.
Anker Frankoni
#94. The purpose of my work is not to educate people, rather it is to enrich human life with self-awareness.
Abhijit Naskar
#95. The book from which to learn religion, is your own mind.
Abhijit Naskar
#97. NEVER FORGET THAT YOU ARE A WOMAN, AND THE GREATEST POWERS YOU CAN EMPLOY AS A WITCH ARE TOTALLY DEPENDENT UPON YOUR OWN SELF-REALIZATION THAT IN BEING A WOMAN YOU ARE DIFFERENT FROM A MAN AND THAT VERY DIFFERENCE MUST BE EXPLOITED!
Anton Szandor LaVey
#99. A Godly Person Is Living Simple And Yet Happy
An Ungodly Person Is Living Luxuriously And Yet So Sad
Baba Tunde Ojo-Olubiyo
#100. Out of many thousands among men, one may endeavor for perfection, and of those who have achieved perfection, hardly one knows Me in truth.
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
