Kamal Ravikant Quotes & Sayings

Thousands of years ago, a Roman poet wrote, "I am a human being, therefore nothing human is foreign to me." I believe it to be true. So if this is possible for one human, it is possible for anyone. The path might be different, but the destination same. — Kamal Ravikant

Life is a series of choices and all we can do is make them. — Kamal Ravikant

Ask yourself: what is it, that if I believed it down to my core, would change everything? — Kamal Ravikant

As you love yourself, life loves you back. I don't think it has a choice either. I can't explain how it works, but I know it to be true. — Kamal Ravikant

I promise you that the same stuff galaxies are made of, you are. The same energy that swings planets around stars makes electrons dance in your heart. It is in you, outside you, you are it. It is beautiful. Trust in this. And you your life will be grand. — Kamal Ravikant

When your sense of self and happiness comes from within and isn't a roller coaster ride dependent on others or circumstances, you approach life differently. You make better choices. You draw to you the people and situations that matter. The others, they fall away. — Kamal Ravikant

You cannot stay at the same level as when you first practiced your truth, life won't let you. — Kamal Ravikant

No matter how smart we may think we are, no matter how committed we are to our truth, we can lose our way. — Kamal Ravikant

Step 5: Repeat "I love myself" gently, pausing occasionally to watch your eyes. When the five minutes are up, smile. You've just communicated the truth to yourself in a deep, visceral way. In a way the mind cannot escape. If anyone ever looked in your eyes, knowing that you loved them, this is what they saw. Give yourself the same gift. — Kamal Ravikant

The insights we receive when going silent, it's our gift to ourselves. Returning and living them, sharing them, that is our gift to the world. — Kamal Ravikant

I can't erase the past, only learn from it. — Kamal Ravikant

If there is one lesson I've learned from failure and success, it's this. I am not the outcome. I am never the result. I am only the effort. — Kamal Ravikant

Creating anything that never existed before is not sanity. — Kamal Ravikant

Resist nothing. Like the Tibetan monk who once told me that he found peace by saying yes to all that happened. I met him again years later and reminded him of what he'd said. He laughed. "Perhaps," he said. "It does fit with my life philosophy." He had a lightness to him that is rare. His laugh, genuine. I almost expected him to levitate. If you think about it, how much time do we spend in our heads wishing things were another way, beating ourselves up, beating others up, crafting a different past, wishing for a different future? All of that is resistance. All of that is pain. Peace is letting it be. Letting life flow, letting emotions flow through you. If you don't fight them, they pass through quickly and you feel better. — Kamal Ravikant

Suffering is when we resist the moment. — Kamal Ravikant

Reach out, share your truth, tell someone, "This is who I am. This is what I stand for. Hold me to it." Often, we'll do far more for another than we will do for ourselves. — Kamal Ravikant

After all, it's the things we hold against ourselves that weigh us down more than anything. — Kamal Ravikant

We are far, far stronger than our pain — Kamal Ravikant

So I return to the question, "if I loved myself, truly and deeply, what would I do?" The answer comes easy: I'd fly. Fly as high as I possibly can. Then, I'd fly higher. — Kamal Ravikant

This day, I vow to myself to love myself, to treat myself as someone I love truly and deeply - in my thoughts, my actions, the choices I make, the experiences I have, each moment I am conscious, I make the decision I LOVE MYSELF. — Kamal Ravikant

Here we are, thinking that one needs to be in love with another to shine, to feel free and shout from the rooftops, but the most important person, the most important relationship we'll ever have is waiting, is craving to be loved truly and deeply. — Kamal Ravikant

Once you cross the threshold, you will never be the same. That is a fact. — Kamal Ravikant

Forget demolishing the grooves of the past. What you're creating is a new groove so deep, so powerful, that your thoughts will automatically flow down this one. — Kamal Ravikant

Success and failure come and go, but don't let them define you. It's who you are that matters. — Kamal Ravikant

What to do next? Keep moving. Leave behind the past, the fears, the guilt, and lose myself in the new. With movement, there's action. And with action, perhaps there are answers. For — Kamal Ravikant

I breathe slowly, naturally. As I inhale, I think, I love myself. Then I exhale and let out whatever the response in my mind and body is, whether there is one or not. That's it. Simple. — Kamal Ravikant

Imagine the feeling of catching yourself loving yourself without trying. It's like catching a sunset out of the corner of your eye. It will stop you. — Kamal Ravikant

You dive deeper, you strip away the cleverness and the words become more important than your ego and that's when you know it's real, when it's good. — Kamal Ravikant

Real growth comes through intense, difficult, and challenging situations. — Kamal Ravikant

If there's a definition of freedom, I think it's this: living life on your terms. — Kamal Ravikant

When something comes from within, when it is a part of you, you have no choice but to live it, to express it. — Kamal Ravikant

The key, at least for me, has been to let go. Let go of the ego, let go of attachments, let go of who I think I should be, who others think I should be. And as I do that, the real me emerges, far far better than the Kamal I projected to the world. There is a strength in this vulnerability that cannot be described, only experienced. — Kamal Ravikant

Sometimes, the only way to evolve is to open ourselves fully. — Kamal Ravikant

Keep in mind, Bandler once cured a guy who thought he was Jesus by bringing in three muscular football players dressed as Roman Centurions and wood for a life-size cross into his hospital room. Then, he proceeded to nail the cross together, pausing occasionally to measure the guy as the Centurions held him down. By the time they were ready for the crucifixion, the man was convinced he wasn't Jesus. Even after the drama had passed, the cure stuck. — Kamal Ravikant

It's easy to wish for health when you're sick. When you're doing well, you need just as much vigilance. — Kamal Ravikant

If ever in pain, I think the best thing we can do is to create something. — Kamal Ravikant

Life is a river," a wise friend told me. "It's flowing. You're never at the same place twice. — Kamal Ravikant

The act of going within, finding our truth, and then sharing it, it helps us far more than we know. — Kamal Ravikant

How do you find peace?" I ask.
"I say 'yes,'" he says.
"To all that happens, I say 'yes. — Kamal Ravikant

What we believe, that's what we seek, it's the filter we view our lives through. — Kamal Ravikant

But in simplicity lies truth. In simplicity lies power. — Kamal Ravikant

Whatever human endeavor we choose, as long as we live our truth, it is success. — Kamal Ravikant

Often, the price for not being present is pain. Now, — Kamal Ravikant

If a painful memory arises, don't fight it or try to push it away - you're in quicksand. Struggle reinforces pain. Instead, go to love. Love for yourself. Feel it. If you have to fake it, fine. It'll become real eventually. Feel the love for yourself as the memory ebbs and flows. That will take the power away. — Kamal Ravikant

If you're about to take a risk
one that comes from within, one that expresses your true nature, that brings up fear after fear after fear
you know what to do. One: do the work, create the value. Two: draw the people that encourage you closer. They're the only ones that matter. — Kamal Ravikant

Threshold is where the madness ends and the magic begins. — Kamal Ravikant

Confidence comes from crossing thresholds. — Kamal Ravikant

Truth makes you rise to new heights, no matter where you are. — Kamal Ravikant

Hemingway, whenever he was stuck in his writing, would tell himself to write one true thing. A true sentence. Then, he would write another. And another. It — Kamal Ravikant

It is not giving up, it is accepting. And the light will enter. Always does. — Kamal Ravikant

The stories Hemingway told, the life he lived, all of it ended with a squeeze of a finger on a trigger. What else could he have done if he had put the shotgun down, gone back to bed? What would he have learned in that moment of choosing to live, what other books would have been written? Meanwhile, — Kamal Ravikant

The greatest achievement of humanity is the human spirit. — Kamal Ravikant

Once heard someone explain thoughts as this: we, as human beings, think that we're thinking. Not true. Most of the time, we're remembering. We're re-living memories. We're running familiar patterns and loops in our head. For happiness, for procrastination, for sadness. Fears, hopes, dreams, desires. We have loops for everything. — Kamal Ravikant

Beautiful irony. Fall in love with yourself. Let your love express itself and the world will beat a path to your door to fall in love with you. — Kamal Ravikant

When we go all in, we find the answers. They're in us. — Kamal Ravikant

This I know: the mind, left to itself, repeats the same stories, the same loops. Mostly ones that don't serve us. So what's practical, what's transformative, is to consciously choose a thought. Then practice it again and again. With emotion, with feeling, with acceptance. Lay down the synaptic pathways until the mind starts playing it automatically. Do this with enough intensity over time and the mind will have no choice. That's how it operates. Where do you think your original loops came from? — Kamal Ravikant

I once asked a monk how he found peace. "I say 'yes,'" he'd said. "To all that happens, I say 'yes. — Kamal Ravikant

The Secret to Flight

Don't flap your wings so hard. It only exhausts you.

Close your eyes. Lean into the currents, say yes. Let the wind raise you higher and higher. So easy. That's what Eagles do.

Oh, this is the secret to life as well. — Kamal Ravikant

The things I carry are my thoughts. That's it. They are the only weight. My thoughts determine whether I am free and light or burdened. — Kamal Ravikant

Knowledge is never enough. Even action, if it's just following a prescribed way, will never fully express your potential. — Kamal Ravikant

If I loved myself truly and deeply, would I let myself experience this? — Kamal Ravikant

Darkness is the absence of light. — Kamal Ravikant

I sit with my back against a wall, put on my headphones, listen to the music, and imagine galaxies and stars and the Universe above, and I imagine all the light from space flowing into my head and down into my body, going wherever it needs to go. — Kamal Ravikant

Surrender means cleaning the window so light can enter. — Kamal Ravikant

Memory is not set in stone. Any neuroscientist will tell you that. The more you remember something, especially if it's emotionally charged, the more you will reinforce the pathways connecting the neurons. Simply put, the more you think about it, the more you feel it, the stronger the memory. — Kamal Ravikant

Peace is letting it be. Letting life flow, letting emotions flow through you. — Kamal Ravikant

If you had a thought once, it has no power over you. Repeat it again and again, especially with emotional intensity, feeling it, and over time, you're creating the grooves, the mental river. Then it controls you. — Kamal Ravikant

There is one rule, though: once you discover your truth, you have to go all in. Fully. Every single chip. — Kamal Ravikant

I cannot emphasize enough the quality of those you surround yourself with. — Kamal Ravikant

What if you don't believe that you love yourself? Doesn't matter. Your role is to lay down the pathways, brick upon brick, reinforce the connections between the neurons. The mind already has a strong wiring for love. The body knows it as well. It knows that love nurtures, that love is gentle, that love is accepting. It knows that love heals. — Kamal Ravikant

Pain doesn't last. And when it's gone, we have something to show for it. Growth. — Kamal Ravikant

The truth is to love yourself with the same intensity you would use to pull yourself up if you were hanging off a cliff with your fingers. — Kamal Ravikant

But I can't erase the past, only learn from it. It's ok. Applying what I know makes the present and the future a beautiful place to be. — Kamal Ravikant

Decide what your truth is. Then live it. — Kamal Ravikant

I think perhaps a better thing to want is fulfillment. A deeper state, one that comes from within, from being your best self. From living life the way you really wish to live it. Then, happiness emanates from within as a byproduct. Naturally. — Kamal Ravikant

instead of reading loads of self-help books, attending various seminars, listening to different preachers, we should just pick one thing. Something that feels true for us. Then practice it fiercely. — Kamal Ravikant

As long as it works, it's valid. — Kamal Ravikant

So I ask myself the question, "if I loved myself, truly and deeply, what would I do?" I love this question. There is no threat, no right or wrong answer, only an invitation to my truth in this present moment. — Kamal Ravikant

The only rule is that truth must empower you, make you better in every way possible. — Kamal Ravikant

Now I know what success is: living your truth, sharing it. — Kamal Ravikant

The simple act of putting your truth on paper, only you and your thoughts, is one of the most powerful exercises you can do. — Kamal Ravikant

One thing I've learned: we don't stumble accidentally into an amazing life. It takes decision, a commitment to consistently work on ourselves. — Kamal Ravikant

So, these tools, like light switches, exist. When fear arises, remember that it is a hallucinated snake or that it's not useful or that it's not real. All three work. There's many more, ones we can come up with ourselves, if we wish. As long as it works, it's valid. Key is this, when in darkness, have a light switch you've chosen standing by. — Kamal Ravikant