Self Realization Quotes - Page 4

• 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

  Spiritual, Self, Law

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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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• Human beings, in a sense, may be thought of as multidimensional creatures composed of such poetic considerations as the individual need for self-realization, subdued passions for overwhelming beauty, and a hunger for meaning beyond the flavors that enter and exit the physical body. A person might even be described as a self-contained multiverse.

  Aberjhani

  Beauty, Passion, Self

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• Truths are not truths to you unless you realize them within yourself. Without realization, they are just ideas. For spiritual perception, spiritual consciousness, lies not in vague theological ideas, but in the acquisition of Self-realization.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Spiritual, Lying, Self

  Yogananda (Paramahansa) (1977). “Self-realization”

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• 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

  Struggle, Self, People

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• God-realization is attained only by great effort on the part of the yogi and by divine grace.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Effort, Grace, Realization

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• 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

  Life Changing, Simple, Self

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• 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

  Self, New Life, Realization

  Zenkei Shibayama (2012). “A Flower Does Not Talk: Zen Essays”, p.19, Tuttle Publishing

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• When you feel discouraged or simply lazy, as is bound to happen sometimes, remember the millions of people in the world who have not had your privilege. Remember the poor and obscure lives of those countless millions who suffer from every sort of deprivation and frequently find themselves the unwilling victim of wars, and a variety of cruelties, perpetuated by man on man. Is it not significant that the first bid for self realization, among the poor and downtrodden, is to assert their right to education?

  Jehan Sadat

  Graduation, War, Men

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• 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

  Smart, Moving, Thinking

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• He who has realized oneness with God possesses all knowledge contained in Him. Knowing the Lord as Beginning and End of all beings and worlds, a true Brahmin has knowledge of the hereafter and of the workings of nature on this plane of existence.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Oneness, Knowing, World

  Paramahansa Yogananda, Yogananda (Paramahansa) (1995). “The Bhagavad Gita: God talks with Arjuna : royal science of God realization”, Self Realization Fellowship Pub

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• Play like dreams serves the function of self realization.

  Donald Woods Winnicott

  Dream, Philosophy, Self

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

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Self

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• Self-realization is not the awareness that this world is a dream, that's a part of self-realization.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Self, Realization

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• 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

  Beach, Loss, Self

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

  Frederick Lenz

  Self, Weight Problems, Ego

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• The discovery of radioactivity created a momentary chaos in chemistry and physics; but it soon led to a fuller interpretation of the old ideas. It dispersed many difficulties, harmonized many discords, and yea, more! It shewed the substance of Universe as a simplicity of Light and Life, manners to compose atoms, themselves capable of deeper self-realization through fresh complexities and organizations, each with its own peculiar powers and pleasures, each pursuing its path through the world where all things are possible.

  Aleister Crowley

  Organization, Ideas, Light

  "Magick Book IV: Liber ABA". Book by Aleister Crowley. Appendix VI: A few principal rituals - Liber Reguli, 1936.

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• The 'I' casts off the illusion of the 'I' and yet remains 'I'. Such is the paradox of Self-realization. The Realized do not see any paradox in it. Consider the case of the worshipper. He approaches God and prays to be absorbed in Him. He then surrenders himself in faith and by concentration. And what remains afterwards? In the place of the original 'I', self-surrender leaves a residuum of God in which the 'I' is lost. That is the highest form of devotion or surrender and the peak of detachment.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Self, Realization, Quiet

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• 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

  Yoga, Self, Perfect

  "The Energetic Anatomy of a Yogi: Healing the Emotional and Mental Body Through Yoga". Book by Paul G. Balch, Jaylee Balch, p. 23, 2013.

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• I used to think that divorce meant failure, but now I see it more as a step along the path of self-realization and growth.

  Alana Stewart

  Divorce, Thinking, Self

  "Is ‘I Do’ Supposed To Be Forever?" by Alana Stewart, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 17, 2013.

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• For self-realization, a rebel demands a strong authority, a worthy opponent, God to his Lucifer.

  Mary McCarthy

  Strong, Self, Rebel

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• Always, a form of self-equilibration, a soul or psyche, is trying to assert itself, to continue the melody of its self-realized life.

  Kenny Smith

  Self, Soul, Trying

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• It is man's intrinsic and irreducible self-responsibility to humanize himself, to exercise his entire range of rational and moral resources to raise his mode of being and seeing and acting above not just that of animals, but also above that of the majority of subhuman (never to be self-realized) humans who will never draw themselves into a self-punishing position of focal self-diagnosis and self-accountability.

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, Responsibility, Exercise

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• When we talk about self-realization, we're talking from the point of view of limitation of the mind. Real knowledge is to see that you are that - you are eternity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Real, Yoga, Self

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

  Frederick Lenz

  Opportunity, Thinking, Self

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