Self Realization Quotes - Page 3

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

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Yoga, Self, Meditation

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

  Herbert J. Muller

  Self, Community, Realization

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• Volunteer activities can foster enormous leadership skills. The nonprofit professional volunteer world is a laboratory for self - realization.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Skills, Self, Volunteer

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• 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

  Jobs, Finding The One, Self

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• We dig a well and create a huge pit. The space in the pit or well has not been created by us. We have just removed the earth which was filling the space there. The space was there then and is also there now.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Space, Pits, Realization

  "Abide as the Self: The Essential Teachings of Ramana Maharshi". Documentary, January 1, 1998.

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• I don't want people to think that they can attain realization simply by listening to others or by reading books. They must practice what they read and hear.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Book, Reading, Thinking

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• A man's truest self realizations might require him, above all, to learn to close his eyes: to let himself be taken unawares, to follow his dark angel, to risk his illegal instincts.

  Jean Cocteau

  Taken, Eye, Angel

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• 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

  Self, Inquiry, Burning

  Ramana Maharshi (2004). “The Spiritual Teaching of Ramana Maharshi”, p.22, Shambhala Publications

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• 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

  Real, Self, Lasting Change

  Penney Peirce, Michael Bernard Beckwith (2011). “Frequency: The Power of Personal Vibration”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Strong, Revenge, Badass

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• 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

  Art, Men, Thinking

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• God is the life behind your life, the sight behind your eyes, the taste behind your tongue, and the love behind your love. To realize this to the fullest extent is Self-realization. Without God's power you can do nothing. If you always hold this thought, you cannot go wrong, because you will have purified the temple of your mind and your soul with the vibrations of God.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Eye, Love Is, Sight

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• But coming home that day, walking downhill with a panorama of valley and hills before me, I turned my gaze inward, and what I saw, stopped me in my tracks. Instead of the usual unlocalized centre of myself, there was nothing there, it was empty, and at the moment of seeing this there was a flood of quiet joy and I knew, finally I knew what was missing-it was my "self".

  Bernadette Roberts

  Home, Self, Track

  Bernadette Roberts (1993). “The Experience of No-Self: A Contemplative Journey”, p.23, SUNY Press

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• Wanting to reform the world without discovering one's true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Spiritual, Pain, Self

  "Abide as the Self: The Essential Teachings of Ramana Maharshi". Documentary, January 1, 1998.

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• 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

  Self, People, Religion

  Paramahansa Yogananda (1990). “The Essence of Self-Realization: The Wisdom of Paramhansa Yogananda”, Crystal Clarity Pubs

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• What I want to achieve, what I have been striving and pining for these thirty years, is self-realization, that is, to see God face to face.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Self, Years

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• 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

  Butterfly, Self, Meditation

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

  Sivaya Subramuniyaswami

  Self, Discipline, Growth

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• How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization!

  Eric Hoffer

  Sacrifice, Self, Realization

  "Thoughts of Eric Hoffer, Including: 'Absolute Faith Corrupts Absolutely'" by Eric Hoffer in The New York Times Magazine (p. 60), April 25, 1971.

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• 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

  Opportunity, Offering, Self

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• Self-realization is liberation. Liberation is self-realization.

  Frederick Lenz

  Self, Realization, Hinduism

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• Self-realization is a comedown from salvation, but still gives us something to hope for.

  Mason Cooley

  Self, Giving, Realization

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• This is the process of Self realization about which Eastern mystics have written. It is the process of salvation to which much Western theology has devoted itself. This is a day-to-day, hour-to-hour, moment-to-moment act of supreme consciousness. It is a choosing and a re-choosing every instant. It is ongoing creation. Conscious creation. Creation with a purpose. It is using the tools of creation we have discussed, and using them with awareness and sublime intention.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Religious, Self

  Neale Donald Walsch (2005). “The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.112, Penguin

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• A job is a vocation only if someone else calls you to do it for them rather than for yourself. And so our work can be a calling only if it is reimagined as a mission of service to something beyond merely our own interests. Thinking of work mainly as a means of self-fulfillment and self-realization slowly crushes a person.

  Timothy Keller

  Crush, Jobs, Mean

  Timothy Keller (2012). “Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Work”, p.2, Penguin

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• Skepticism? Yes, but a saint is a skeptic once in twenty-four hours.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Twenties, Saint, Four

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1954). “Basic Selections from Emerson: Essays, Poems & Apothegms”

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