Sayings About Self Realization

#1. The invitation only world is a manifestation of self-realization.

Bryant McGill

#2. Fearlessness means faith in God: faith in his protection, His justice, His wisdom, His mercy, His love, and His Omnipresence ... To be fit for Self-realization man must be fearless.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#3. Self-Realization Fellowship seemed like training. It was the training ground for finding a sense of peace in myself. Because that's my job. It's no one else's.

Mariel Hemingway

#4. I do believe in God. But you won't find me visiting temples every now and then. I believe in self-realization. Peace of mind matters a lot to me. What's the point in doing something just for the sake of it? I'd rather do something I like doing as long as I'm being true to myself.

Virat Kohli

#5. Self-realization, which leads to purity of the soul, requires forgiving our enemies and working on the most horrendous modules of oneself.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#6. Group Meditation is a castle that protects the new spiritual aspirants as well as the veteran meditators. Meditating together increases the degree of Self-realization of each member of the group by the law of invisible vibratory exchange of group magnetism.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#7. Ascension through all levels of consciousness and awareness can only happen when you live life as you, and not how others think you should live. How could self-realization possibly be anything other than being yourself?

Bryant McGill

#8. He was a central player in some of the happiest chapters of our lives. Chapters of young love and new beginnings, of budding careers and tiny babies. Of heady successes and crushing disappointments; of discovery and freedom and self-realization.

Anonymous

#9. How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization!

Eric Hoffer

#10. That's what every uncomfortable feeling is for-that's what pain is for, what money is for, what everything in the world is for: your self-realization.

Byron Katie

#11. Our own self-realization is the greatest service we can render the world.

Ramana Maharshi

#12. 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

#13. Some people have a very strange idea that material success does not coincide harmoniously with self-realization, which is absurd. The aversion to material success, or the clinging to it, is an attachment.

Frederick Lenz

#14. No discovery of modern psychology is, in my opinion, so important as its scientific proof of the necessity of self-sacrifice (or discipline) to self-realization and happiness.

Henry C. Link

#15. Anybody who says that love is a hindrance on the path of self-realization is not a sage.

Rajneesh

#16. I did some years of therapy and self-realization, and I just move and think at a slower pace - doesn't make me sound very smart! But really not reacting and doing more listening than talking, and letting people say what they need to say, and then maybe not saying anything at all.

Natalie Maines

#17. People want to will their self realization. They want to know what the right thing to do all the time is. There is no right thing. There's no code. There are certain basic recommendations.

Frederick Lenz

#18. The self does not realize itself most fully when self-realization is its most constant aim.

Marianne Moore

#19. Love is the easiest and most effective way to begin our search for self-realization.

Frederick Lenz

#20. All your thoughts, imagination, feelings, emotions and sensation are part of the mechanical process that can be understood, at the state of self-realization.

Roshan Sharma

#21. If no sing, all youth condemned into poverty. Denied possible advancement and self-realization

Chuck Palahniuk

#22. God realization and self-realization are one and the same. God-realization is nothing but the ability and expansiveness of heart to love everything equally.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#23. Self-realization is a very quiet thing. It's not flashy. No one might see you light up a room. No one might observe anything

Frederick Lenz

#24. The one whose 'alochana (confession of mistakes), pratikraman (asking for forgiveness) and pratyakhyan (avowal to never repeat the mistake)' are true (done correctly), he is bound to attain the knowledge of the Self (attain self realization).

Dada Bhagwan

#25. The ego must be developed, not for its own sake, but because it is needed by society. If you are only interested in self-realization then you cannot make a good painting. To do this you have to have thought about forming, and about how ideas of forming stem from history.

Joseph Beuys

#26. Peace is a process of self-realization, a realization that peace resides inside us, in our inner calmness and tranquility.

Debasish Mridha

#27. Spiritual grace adds to a life and it is crucial ingredient in any person's quest to attain self-realization.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#28. It's not logical, self-realization. If it was, everybody would be self-realized because everybody is logical.

Frederick Lenz

#29. Once you start growing in your self-realization, you develop such a personality that you see the whole world as one.

Nirmala Srivastava

#30. 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

#31. Self-realization is not complete until it lives in action.

Byron Katie

#32. We go to the mountain for enlightenment, for self-realization, for adventure, for discovery. It's pregnant with meaning. When people see a mountain, they invest it with meaning. Not plot. Not character.

Joe Rohde

#33. The highest goal of spirituality is Self-realization, but what does that mean? It means to feel your Self as a living reality in this moment, and there is always only this moment. (10)

Gay Hendricks

#34. Even the slightest criticism of others is an impediment (hindrance) to Absolute Knowledge (Kevalgnan, Absolute Enlightenment). It also hinders Atmagnan (Knowledge of the Self), also hinders Samkit (Self-realization).

Dada Bhagwan

#35. Self Realization is finding That which is beyond even superconsciousness itself, beyond the mind-timeless, causeless, spaceless.

Sivaya Subramuniyaswami

#36. Not everyone who attains Self-realization can make a reliable guide. I have been saying "he," but this is not a role for men alone. My own teacher is my mother's mother.

Anonymous

#37. But in practice, neither believed in friendship or loyalty. They believed in passion, they believed in a hybrid form of social or public happiness (both voted Socialist, albeit with the occasional abstention), they believed in the possibility of self-realization.

Roberto Bolano

#38. People who are advanced meditators don't worry about liberation and self-realization; they instead are interested in the welfare of others and aiding others in their liberation.

Frederick Lenz

#39. Now the stage today is to know that Self Realization gives you experiences and then your faith is established. Not blind but open enlightened faith.

Nirmala Srivastava

#40. 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

#41. Self-realization is a process of permanent auto-creation, an elaboration of the new man at the expense of the old.

Nikolai Berdyaev

#42. I craved honesty, yet found dishonesty in myself. Why commit to art? For self-realization, or for itself? It seemed indulgent to add to the glut unless one offered illumination.

Patti Smith

#43. The truth which can be actualized after Self Realization is that you are not this body, this mind, this conditioning from the past, this ego, these emotions, but that you are the pure spirit.

Nirmala Srivastava

#44. A small portion of Mahatma Gandhi's ashes are enshrined at the Self Realization Fellowship Lake Shrine Temple in Pacific Palisades. They are the only portion of Gandhi's remains that are kept anywhere outside of India.

James Frey

#45. I think art parallels life; it is not a report on nature or on intimate disclosure of inner secrets. Color, in my opinion, behaves like man
in two distinct ways: first in self-realization and then in the realization of relationships with others.

Josef Albers

#46. Anger-pride-deceit-greed are in the form of 'discharge'. But if one does not have 'knowledge of True Self' (realization of the self), then he 'charges' new karmas within.

Dada Bhagwan

#47. Man is not at peace with himself till he has become like unto God. The endeavour to reach this state is the supreme, the only ambition worth having. And this is self-realization.

Mahatma Gandhi

#48. We each act as the creator of the self, and therefore, we strive to attain self-realization by understanding what we were in various stages of life including what we began as and what we transmuted into becoming.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#49. Life is perpetually creative because it contains in itself that surplus which ever overflows the boundaries of the immediate time and space, restlessly pursuing its adventure of expression in the varied forms of self-realization.

Rabindranath Tagore

#50. Through Self-realization man becomes aware of true values as to his place in the divine plan and his relation to the past, present, and future of mankind.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#51. No aacomplishments are important than self realization of self satisfaction.

Santosh Kalwar

#52. The deeper the Self-realization of a man, the more he influences the whole universe by his subtle spiritual vibrations, and the less he himself is affected by the phenomenal flux.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#53. There is no samkit (vision with right belief that I am Pure Soul) where there are kashays [anger, pride, deceit and greed], and where there are no kashays, there is samkit (self realization).

Dada Bhagwan

#54. The meaning of life changes as you change dimensional planes. The way human beings perceive the world is only one simple method of seeing. There are many ways to see life. Life has many meanings, and self realization is the understanding of all this.

Frederick Lenz

#55. The individual and social instincts, - the one a most potent factor for individual endeavor, for growth, aspiration, self-realization; the other an equally potent factor for mutual helpfulness and social well-being.

Emma Goldman

#56. The man of Self-realization knows a bliss that cannot be compared to anything in this world. His joy is independent of any object or sensory experience. It is an incomparable happiness that cannot be described in words. Such joy is known as sattvik-ananda.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#57. A black hen also lays white egg. The quote is not a racial remark. It implies everyone has hidden talent and can make the most out of it with only self realization.

Paromita Goswami

#58. Self-realization is the last game on earth worth playing.

Frederick Lenz

#59. Empowerment comes from self-realization and recognition of our internal gifts, which we already have.

Bryant McGill

#60. Zen is the way of complete self-realization; a living human being who follows the way of Zen can attain satori and then live a new life as a Buddha.

Zenkei Shibayama

#61. In this world, there are instruments to acquire instruments; 'here', there is the instrument to attain the Final Goal (Self Realization).

Dada Bhagwan

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

Ramana Maharshi

#63. Self-realization may be and sometimes is attained even by people who are struggling with sick and otherwise imperfect bodies; but it cannot be attained unless one can concentrate and meditate uninterruptedly upon God.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#64. Self Realization is the first encounter with reality.

Nirmala Srivastava

#65. By the inquiry 'Who am I?'.
The thought 'who am I?' will destroy all other thoughts,
and like the stick used for stirring the burning pyre, it will itself in the end get destroyed. Then, there will arise Self-realization.

Ramana Maharshi

#66. Self-realization doesn't imply loss, gain, even transition; it's only a settling. The separate sounds on the beach, the birds, the waves, the wind. They all come together again, they blend, they harmonize.

Frederick Lenz

#67. 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

#68. All service should be regarded as an offering to God, and every opportunity to serve should be welcomed as a gift from God. When service is done in this spirit, it will lead to self- realization.

Sathya Sai Baba

#69. 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

#70. Yoga, an ancient but perfect science, deals with the evolution of humanity. This evolution includes all aspects of one's being, from bodily health to self-realization.

B.K.S. Iyengar

#71. Self-realization sounds good. But what if only an enraged dwarf emerges?

Mason Cooley

#72. Success is never a place or position but a new state of self-realization.

Debasish Mridha

#73. 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

#74. The religion that I advocate, and so did the mortal humans known as Jesus, Buddha and Nanak, is the religion of love, compassion and self-realization.

Abhijit Naskar

#75. 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

#76. Americans share an affinity to establish a distinctive identity and know one's self in a physiological, psychological, and spiritual sense, and we strive to attain self-actualization, self-realization, and/or bliss.

Kilroy J. Oldster

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

Dada Bhagwan

#78. Of the four major pathways to self-realization, jnana yoga, from the point of view of the beginner, is the most difficult.

Frederick Lenz

#79. We're blind, deaf and dumb. It is only that Self, which is our life force that makes who and what we are. The realization of that is self-realization.

Frederick Lenz

#80. The beauty of self realization lies in secretly working out within you everything that is virtuous, that is beautiful, that is joyful.

Nirmala Srivastava

#81. Man is not a solitary animal, and so long as social Life survives, self-realization cannot be the supreme principle of ethics.

Bertrand Russell

#82. Holistic self-realization is the realization of your heart's desire. Why holistic? Because it involves your entire being.

Stefan Emunds

#83. It is equally easy, initially, for either a man or a woman to attain enlightenment, what we would call liberation or self-realization.

Frederick Lenz

#84. Self Realization is when you dont have to think twice before acting and you never get bored in life.

Girish Kohli

#85. There is no higher or lower goal. There is only one goal, Self-Realization.

Meher Baba

#86. The sense of community is indispensable ... to full self-realization.

Herbert J. Muller

#87. Blossom time has come and many ancient seekers are today getting their Self Realization.

Nirmala Srivastava

#88. The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle.

Swami Sivananda

#89. 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

#90. We are immortal life. Think of the opportunity of self-realization. What a gas!

Frederick Lenz

#91. Our own private intuition is the catalyst for self-improvement and self-realization, because when it comes to making deep and lasting changes in one's personal life, it is only subjective experience, not facts, that registers as real.

Penney Peirce

#92. 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

#93. Life is a partial, continuous, progressive, multiform and conditionally interactive self-realization of the potentialities of atomic electron states.

John Desmond Bernal

#94. 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

#95. 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

#96. We were not made to look inward for self-realization, but to look outwards in love. I

Tim Chester

#97. Self-realization: No ego, no desires, no weight problems, no tax forms, no death to die, no life to live.

Frederick Lenz

#98. 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

#99. 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

#100. Jesus bases everything on God-realization, while other teachers base everything on self-realization.

Oswald Chambers