Ilchi Lee Quotes & Sayings

The primary goal of Brain Wave Vibration is to help you return to a simple state of being, a place where you can experience yourself and the world without thought or judgement. — Ilchi Lee

Those who fully express their soul are peaceful, bold, and confident. They can be peaceful because they know that their essence is eternal, indestructible wholeness, and they are bold and confident because they know their own absolute value. — Ilchi Lee

I am your hope, your guide - your soul. — Ilchi Lee

Consciousness and the brain have a relationship like that of a driver and car. Just as we need a driver if we are to move a car, consciousness must be awake if it is to make good use of the brain. — Ilchi Lee

The only thing you need to be present here and now is your breathing. When you feel your breath, your mind is with your body. — Ilchi Lee

Add these affirmations:
"Bright LifeParticles are energizing my body."
"Every cell in my body vibrates with energy and health. — Ilchi Lee

But now Jay's mind was so full of other things that he could no longer hear the bird's song. — Ilchi Lee

We have the Noble Desire to help others and benefit the world, without expecting any return or recognition. What makes us great is not our knowledge, skill, money, or power. What makes us great is not our knowledge, skill, money, or power. What makes us truly great is this noble desire, this passion that transcends all separation, goes beyond one's limitations, and wants to hug others and embrace the whole world. This is not something that we need to learn, because we already have it. It just needs to be acknowledged and awakened. — Ilchi Lee

You are an indispensable and irreplaceable asset to the human family. — Ilchi Lee

The innumerable phenomena of life are temporary manifestations of LifeParticles.Once we know that everything comes and goes in a flux of LifeParticles, we can watch ourselves and the world with tranquility. — Ilchi Lee

Change is something that happens to you.
Change is something that you make.
Which statement seems to be true?
You are the one who can make one of these true.
You have the power to choose.
You have potential beyond your wildest imagination.
Now is time for change, a time to become the greatest version of yourself.
And a time to make your grandest vision of the world.
Open up to discover a new world.
Be inspired to make the changes you truly desire.
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That's where we start making changes From the deepest and softest.
It's not the world that we needed to change It is the people who inhabit the world. It's not machines that we need to change. It is the people who use those machines. Even with people we can start the change from the softer things such as the way we breathe, and the way we feel about or toward other people and other living beings. These soft parts shape Our behaviors and our choices, both on a personal and a global scale. In this respect, they are fundamental, more so than any material changes. — Ilchi Lee

When we are aware that we are eternal beings, when we become enlightened to the fact that our life is something eternal that cannot be harmed by anything, then we have no attachments to the past of anxiety about the future and are able to focus on the present moment the now. — Ilchi Lee

When you study by listening directly to the teacher, it is like turning an attentive ear to our body, and that is Dahnhak. All scriptures are a kind of teachings, and the means to get to the Truth, but they are not the Truth itself. The awakened can feel the Truth. When this is translated into words and letters, they get to lose the heart and soul of the Truth.
from The Way to Light Up Your Divinity — Ilchi Lee

Everyone has it
To know what it is.
Take a journey deep within
And open your eyes wide.
Then you will see everything. — Ilchi Lee

Jay couldn't fill that empty space with anything. Nothing brought him joy. — Ilchi Lee

When your mind is still and undisturbed by stimulation, the true nature naturally shines out and you can directly see what you really are. — Ilchi Lee

Because we have a sense of completion within us, and because we have the will and desire to reach that state of completion, human beings have the potential for greatness and can become greater at any time. — Ilchi Lee

And most importantly, the next time someone asks you "Who are you?" you must answer in this simple way, with sincerity and conviction: "I am an Earth Citizen — Ilchi Lee

Place your concentration in the center of your palm. Concentrate on making that part of your palm warmer than the rest of your hand. After a while, compare the temperature in the center of your palm to another part of your body. — Ilchi Lee

Earth Citizens have minds and hearts that know the Earth is the foundation of everything they do. — Ilchi Lee

When you create a strong center, your body and mind become able to process the influx of information that is always around you. — Ilchi Lee

The life I am experiencing, good or bad, is the collective result of the choices I have made, knowingly or unknowingly. When I accept this, I acknowledge that I have the power to create my destiny. — Ilchi Lee

Through reflection, awakening, and choice we are able to exist as our true selves. However, this is not the end. In order for us to realize and put into practice the life purpose we have chosen, endless choices await us. — Ilchi Lee

Your body is a flower that life let bloom ... — Ilchi Lee

Sedona is a apace of infinite creation in your heart, your greatest dream, and the most sacred moments of your life. And it is the power of your choice to choose hope even in the most difficult moments. — Ilchi Lee

In order to recognize the Truth, you have to separate yourself from the Truth; and to explain the Truth, you have to separate yourself from the recognition. This is why a wordsmithed Truth is nothing but a shadow of the shadow of the Truth. If Buddha had yawned instead of holding up a fower, would that gesture have been any less representative of the Truth? — Ilchi Lee

Basically it is your choice. No matter what spiritual path you have taken, no matter what experiences you have had, choice is still choice. Spiritual development doesn't happen automatically. It is choosing the eye of Tao that sees both the whole view of things from a distance and the core of reality from deep inside. — Ilchi Lee

It's only natural to experience times that are difficult and painful, no matter who you are. those are times when anyone would feel tempted to give up on their dream. However, if you try to avoid adversity, you'll end up succumbing to the external environment or to your own limitations. You're able to demonstrate the creative wisdom that can overcome difficulty only if you face it bravely and assertively, instead of avoiding it-and you will grow through your hardship. — Ilchi Lee

Whatever path bought you here
There is a reason why you came,
Though you may not know it now.
So, please open your ears and listen.
Listen to the message that Sedona has for you. — Ilchi Lee

From The Twelve Enlightenments
Observe your own body. It breathes. You breathe when you are asleep, when you are no longer conscious of your own ideas of self-identity. Who, then, is breathing? The collection of information that you mistakenly think it's you is not the main protagonist in this drama called the breath. In fact, you are not breathing; breath is naturally happening to you. You can purposely end your own life, but you cannot purposely keep your own life going. The expression, "My life" is actually an oxymoron, a result of ignorance and mistaken assumption. You don't posses life; life expresses itself through you. Your body is a flower that life let bloom, a phenomenon created by life. — Ilchi Lee

We have an innate sensibility for being content,feeling joyful, and living in happiness without conditions. Happiness is a natural condition of existence. — Ilchi Lee

Do you have a dream? If you do, what is it? Is your dream similar to mine? I hope that even more people dream the same dream as me, because my dream is so big I couldn't handle it by myself. If you are someone who has the same dream as me, this is what I have to say to you. Right now, you are planting a single tree. Right now, you are sowing a single seed. And you are beginning to knit something with one strange of yarn. The first step or two are nothing, but imagine that you continue that work for ten years. One tree becomes a forest, one seed becomes a field, and that single thread becomes a beautiful cloth. Believe in the life inside you, believe in the great and holy mind within you, and push forward with the dream you have chosen until you make it. — Ilchi Lee

I like "Julie Gold's song "From a Distance". Her song reminds me of the world as seen through an observer's eye. Seen from a distance, we are people in the same band playing music for everyone. We are artists who play the most beautiful instruments in the world - life. — Ilchi Lee

If we make an effort to engage in conscious evolution of our awareness, we will realize that we are One with the cosmos at the very moment we realize we are One with the Earth. Earth simply provides us with a more concrete target for the path of our conscious evolution. You could call it a secret path to enlightenment, paved with only the best intentions.
Just as the Earth is the tiniest of the tiniest part of the universe, humanity is only a small segment of the life that populates her, despite our delusions of grandeur. A human being can elevate his or her consciousness enough to feel the Earth's entirety in his or her heart and to realize the Oneness that connects all of life in a web of live, pulsating energy. — Ilchi Lee

Sit down comfortably. As you control your breathing, have your mind watch your body. And tell yourself, "It's okay." Then your soul will find rest, and your body, too, will find comfort and new strength. — Ilchi Lee

Let us give future generations the gift of Earth citizenship by first giving it to ourselves. — Ilchi Lee

As long as I can find hope in myself, there is hope for the future of the earth and the human race. If I fail to discover hope in myself, there is no hope for the earth or the human race. If I discover the goodness of human nature in myself, I can find it in the entire human race. If I fail to discover it in myself, I can't expect it from anyone else, either. — Ilchi Lee

Being is a more awakened state than having. To be is to exist in a space of pure choice and creation — Ilchi Lee

Perhaps we have been dependent too long on language and thought, and need to reawaken our inherent sense of the subtle vibration of Energy-Consciousness. All you have to do is unblock the blocked parts and awaken the sleeping parts of your being to access it. — Ilchi Lee

DIVINITY
A night deep in darkness
A bright star came into my brain
and whispered in my ears
The twinkling stars you see above
It is your eyes that see them
The raindrops hitting against the windows
It is your ears that hear them
I had thought
That it was I who saw the stars
that it was I who heard the rain
Now that I open my eyes and ears anew
I realize that I am the stars and the rain
A bright light shines one more time
Then I am neither the star nor the rain
Truly realizing myself and all,
I am eternal life that exists alone and on its own
Stars continue twinkle and
raindrops just continue to fall — Ilchi Lee

What makes us truly great is this noble desire, this passion that transcends all separation that goes beyond one's limitations and wants to hug others and embrace the whole world. — Ilchi Lee

It's a wonderful paradox: only when you have a changeless sense of who you are, can real changes take place. It is the ground of your absolute value and everything that is truly worthwhile. — Ilchi Lee

If you are connected and one with yourself, even something as massive as the Earth feels as if it belongs to you, something you want to love and care for. — Ilchi Lee

When everyone resonates with the holiness and greatness within, we can overcome personal limitations and create mature change for the future of the earth. Not just one or two great individuals, but the birth of a great community
this is the only hope of the earth. — Ilchi Lee

God who is in heaven
Thank you for letting us know you.
God who is in the mountains and streams
Thank you for letting us see and feel you.
God who is in the heart of all people
I pray earnestly that your will becomes realized.
What I'm most grateful for
is that, even if I were not to have eyes, ears, and a body
you have given me this soul
so that I can know you, who are invisible,
and for that I thank you with all my heart. — Ilchi Lee

Before we ask the cosmos for the power to have all our thoughts manifest, we need to train ourselves to become more aware, or mindful, of our thoughts, and think wisely enough to use this power for the benefit of all. — Ilchi Lee

It's only natural for people to fall, but there are people who, even if they fall, jump right back up right away and run forward, and there are people who just keep sitting there, crying. — Ilchi Lee

To see truth as truth, we don't need a lot of study. It's not complicated. What we need is pure observation. An open mind and fresh eyes will serve us well. — Ilchi Lee

Your ideas, thoughts and intentions are the seeds of creation, and your attention is the powerful tool that drives energy toward the object or outcome that you want to create. Your positive emotion and passionate action add power to the creative process. — Ilchi Lee

By becoming aware of how you eat your eating will become a rich experience blessed with tasteful flavor, joyful texture, a deep sense of gratitude, and pleasurable contentment. — Ilchi Lee

Whatever path brought you here
There is a reason why you came,
Through you may not know it now. — Ilchi Lee

If we make choices using Earth as the central standard, welfare as a common goal, and conscience as the absolute scale, even apparently complex changes may happen more quickly than we imagine. — Ilchi Lee

Even if certain suffering is in the future, you have to take the path that your real True Self wants. Until you take that path, your soul will feel its thirst forever. — Ilchi Lee

Absolute values are the things that are important whether you like them or not. Relative values depend on social contexts and personal preferences and conditions of life. Our current market system pursues relative transient values at the cost of absolute lasting values. — Ilchi Lee

Change,connectivity,and learning to live well with others and with Nature and her ways will be the features of the world when seen through the eye of Tao. — Ilchi Lee

Many of the activities we pursue, the resources we consume, and the waste products we create are the products of our desire to make our bodies a little more comfortable and carefree. Whether it's food, exercise, music, alcohol, sex, drugs - whatever the stimulus - ultimately what we seek is a feeling of satisfaction. In the end, though, true satisfaction arises from a balance of healthy, harmonious energy. And that harmonious, balanced energy is the core of the natural healing power. — Ilchi Lee

In a futule effort to find the underlying truth of existence, we peer into the farthest reaches of the universe and split subatomic particles into smaller units. However, these techniques will only enable us to see the smallest particles that the prevailing technology affords. It will not help us "see" the reality behind existence, which is information. Since the world of information is zero, even the tiniest particle is larger than zero. If you truly want to know the source of existence, look deeply into your own mind first. — Ilchi Lee

I believe these connections are not the result of chance. They are the result of long cherished hopes, choices, and creation. — Ilchi Lee

Behind our behaviors are our beliefs. They determine how we think things are and what is possible. The foundation of these beliefs is our conception of who we are, whether we are conscious of it or not. — Ilchi Lee

A good basic character should be developed even before discussing enlightenment or the growth of your soul. That's why Zen initiates developed their basic character traits through nine years of study - three years of cleaning, three years of firewood collecting and cutting, and three years of cooking. Teachings on the Tao were transmitted only to those who had successfully cultivated such character in themselves. — Ilchi Lee

To take another breath, we must first exhale. When we have breathed out and emptied our lungs, we can breathe in again. — Ilchi Lee

I made my body get up. Let's give it a go. people aren't going to come to me. I have to go to where the people are. Come on let's go. Let's share this awakening that I've attained with others. If I don't know the way, I'll ask as I go, and if I ask but there's no path, then I just need to make one and take it. — Ilchi Lee

Getting back into the rhythmn of a happy, healthy life — Ilchi Lee

The sensation of energy expands with increasing relaxation. — Ilchi Lee

A peaceful life doesn't mean one that has no conflict or struggle ... a life that avoids conflict never changes. We must live making sounds like the stream of water ... we can produce beautiful sounds in our lives by colliding with obstacles. — Ilchi Lee

Breathing well means breathing more slowly and deeply. Relax, feel your breathing, and breathe comfortably. Once aware, it naturally becomes deeper and slower. — Ilchi Lee

Now is a time for change, a time to become the greatest version of yourself. And a time to to make your grandest vision of the world . — Ilchi Lee

Sedona is beautiful, but your soul is even more beautiful. — Ilchi Lee

Love and peace are transmitted not through words but the soft light of the eyes and the curved lips of a gentle smile. — Ilchi Lee

The greatest comfort comes from within. Sit down comfortably. As you control your breath, let your mind watch your body. Tell yourself, "It's Ok." At this moment your soul will find peace and your body, too, will follow, finding comfort and new strength. — Ilchi Lee

Boundaries, rulers, and names of nations can change, but the Earth is always our home and our source of life. Earth is the only indelible identity we can have. This is why I am suggesting that we expand our identities beyond the limits of nationality and culture to encompass the only identity that is definite and real by identifying ourselves, first and foremost, as Earth Citizens. — Ilchi Lee

Chakras are energy centers where the body's life energy is concentrated. The concept of chakra is found in the Hindu tradition in India & some disciplines of Buddhism. Of the seven major chakras, six are located along the spinal cord & one is located at the crown of the head. The chakras are closely related to the endocrine system,which secretes hormones, and they are known to influence each and every part of the human body through the autonomic nervous system. They are highly attuned sensors that respond to the state of your physical, mental & spiritual health. — Ilchi Lee

While sleeping, we're free to be what we really are, nothing more, nothing less. — Ilchi Lee

Jay became an adult. He got a job, married a wife, and they had a child. Now he had so many things to take care! Like all other grown ups, he talked more of being busy than of being happy. He completely forgot the little bird singing beautiful songs in his heart. — Ilchi Lee

Meditation need not mean sitting in a special posture. Nonetheless, we can use certain physical and mental exercises to calm the noises of the mind and body, and sensitize us to the sound of the soul. — Ilchi Lee

What is missing in our economic system is a central value that can encompass everything that can be transacted and used to assign the proper relative value to everything. — Ilchi Lee

Be aware of your breathing and breathe naturally. This will lead you into unity with the great flow of Life, your true nature. — Ilchi Lee

Change your energy! Be genuinely positive. Have kind energy before you say kind words or do kind gestures. Affect other people positively. — Ilchi Lee

A soul can finally fly free as a bird only after its energy is lighter and has been purified. — Ilchi Lee

When we allow a preconception to rule our behavior, we are actually allowing our past to control our present and future. — Ilchi Lee

The key to meditation is to exist one hundred percent in the here and now. — Ilchi Lee

We need to recalibrate our scale and remove our colored lenses,so we can start from the zero-point.This reminds me of using a calculator to make a series of calculations. When calculating multiple sets of numbers, you have to clear the previous calaulation before you start a new one, and that is what we want:a fresh start. — Ilchi Lee

Earth is not a private club; it is a universal club. Being born allows you to receive a membership card; you don't have to do anything else for it. And it is the most beautiful club that you will ever find. Once you have realized that you are a member, don't you want to keep it clean and comfortable for fellow members to use? I know I do. — Ilchi Lee

By acknowledging and accepting the ultimate commonality, we can naturally and voluntarily develop the attitude of compassion and benevolence toward other people, other life-forms, and all beings. We will want to live for the good of all because we know that's the way we benefit ourselves, too. — Ilchi Lee

Recalibration of the mind means clearing our perceptions and recovering our capacity for pure observation. — Ilchi Lee

I believe that there is a direct parallel between the condition of your body and the condition of your brain. When you release the stiffness in your body, you are also creating flexibility in your brain. You become the instinctive, spontaneous healer of your own body and mind. — Ilchi Lee

There is a serious discrepancy between what we really wants, and what we usually do to get what we think we want. What we really want is to fill the hole inside and become complete, and what we do is look for success and growth outside. — Ilchi Lee

True communion with nature becomes possible when the energy sense is turned on and heightened. You're moved by the sounds of a bird singing in the morning, and you can feel the principles of nature even in a single leaf falling with its back to the setting sun. You come to realize that you were never alone, that you have always been breathing surrounded by the massive energy of life. — Ilchi Lee

You are infinite intelligence, creativity and Energy-Consciousness which gives you the power and wisdom to attain fulfillment and completion in life. — Ilchi Lee

Our world desperately needs change. We all know this. The scope of the change ranges from our lifestyles to the direction of our civilization. When we acknowledge our greatness and start living it, when we open our hearts to the natural kindness and the caring for all beings that resides within us, all these necessary transformations can begin. — Ilchi Lee

When you are stressed, first notice and acknowledge it. By doing so, you can use the space between the stressor and your reaction for different choices, instead of reverting automatically to your habitual responses. Become aware of your breathing, and breathe comfortably. As soon as you become aware of breathing, your breath naturally becomes deep and slow. Focus on each pause between inhaling and exhaling. It will give you a sense of space and quietude inside you. — Ilchi Lee

Conscience, the divine nature within us, sees everything as connected, what's good for all is always its priority. — Ilchi Lee

The universe likes change. All that appears solid and substantial is built on the shifting sands of ceaseless transformation on the quantum level. Ironically, that's the one steady factor about the universe - it is always changing, which means our efforts to change are supported by the very nature of Life. — Ilchi Lee

It will be impossible for us to maintain the health of the organism called the earth unless we feel and care for other organisms as we do for ourselves - and unless we take action. — Ilchi Lee

wake up and pay attention. — Ilchi Lee

When jay laughed his soul bird laughed with him. when jay rejoiced his soul bird rejoiced too — Ilchi Lee

Absolute truthfulness, and conscience as its manifestation, are within everybody. Acknowledging it is wisdom, and living it is virtue. — Ilchi Lee

Then what is a master? A master is someone who actualizes her enlightenment in every day living. Everyone already knows what is right and wrong. But we do not admit hat we know from right and wrong because we don't want to take responsibility that comes with such admission. — Ilchi Lee

In reality, we don't die, but merely change. Energy reveals and hides itself repeatedly as it flows along. The flame of life flickers on and off, again and again. How could the flame going out for a brief time signify extinction? There is no life and death separate from the infinite life energy of the cosmos. The phenomena of life energy merely change and cycle in accordance with the law of infinite energy. — Ilchi Lee