Self Realisation Quotes Quotes & Sayings

He trusts Malcolm, but Malcolm doesn't want trust: he wants someone to show the silvery, stripey marble he's found from a small quarry outside Izmir and argue about how much of it is too much; and to make smell the cypress from Gifu that he's sourced for the bathroom tub; and to examine the objects - hammers; wrenches; pliers - he's embedded like trilobites in the poured concrete floors. — Hanya Yanagihara

We share our secrets when we're ready and not a minute before. — Linda Evans Shepherd

Even a child cannot sit here without support. Some support will be necessary. No one can live without the support from the material world. After getting the support from one's own Soul, one doesn't need the support from the material world. 'He' will then become independent [support-free]. — Dada Bhagwan

The process of enlightenment and evolution can never happen without the realisation of shortcomings. People, when they think they are the best and can't get any better, are easily offended when others see room for improvement. But it is when you think you are already the best that you have put a ceiling right on top of your head, a ceiling made of concrete, that stops you from becoming any better! Be happy when you see an area for improvement! Be happy that someone pointed it out to you, be happy that there is still space above you for you to reach towards; and not just an impenetrable ceiling of satisfaction and ideology. — C. JoyBell C.

what was rational about a midlife crisis? Weren't they always a little absurd? They were beginning the next phase of their lives together. She was not afraid of it. Let it come, she thought. He'll be in good hands. — Matthew Thomas

Do you ever wonder, do you, why I loved you for such a long time, and still didn't really know you? — Khadija Rupa

The greatest wonder of this world is the "Soul". Once It is realized (attained), everything is attained!!! — Dada Bhagwan

If any influential nation had the great spiritual strength to lay down its arms and appear with clean hands before the world, the world would be changed. I see no evidence that any influential nations has such great spiritual strength and courage. Therefore disarmament will be a slow process, motivated by the wish to survive. — Peace Pilgrim

If there is true 'Selfishness,' then there is 'liberation of the Self', and that indeed is one's own form (the Self). — Dada Bhagwan

Samkit' (right belief) means knowing the Soul (self). — Dada Bhagwan

I was thinking, and realised how simple my goal has been - just to be me! I didn't want to be a good person and change the world; I just wanted to be me! Against all odds, I wanted to make sure that I turned out as myself and not into my family, my society, my religion ... I wanted to make sure that I turned into me! But then after that first realisation, I made a second realisation; and that is, that becoming yourself against all odds is probably the highest attainment you could ever dream of or hope for! After all, the minute we are born, we are born into a world that isn't interested in making us who we are; but rather, is interested in making us who they think we are supposed to be! It is a most courageous act to become yourself, no matter what! And you can move mountains and change the world without trying to! As long as you fight for you! — C. JoyBell C.

If there is wrong [ill] on the inside, the outside will appear wrong. Therefore, you should inquire within 'why am I bothered, when others are not? So there must be wrong within me only. — Dada Bhagwan

Natural Self is the Soul and illusion is the relative self [prakruti]. — Dada Bhagwan

As long as one finds faults with the world, he won't be able to find anything about the Soul (Self). He who sees his own faults is the Soul (Self) himself! — Dada Bhagwan

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

Third, the Stubborn Mind: These are the people who are not willing to explore the intuitions hidden in their religious holy scriptures towards the Soul-Realisation. — Vishal Chipkar

How can one become free from the mind? If he lives as if he is dead, then he can become free from his mind. — Dada Bhagwan

Education is realisation of our true potential — Lailah Gifty Akita

The one who knowingly gets cheated is entitled to liberation! — Dada Bhagwan

The person whose attention is in the 'pure Soul' is known as a renowned person. No one in the past had been celebrated as a famous person; they were called renowned persons. To be famous is the result of an 'above normal' state. — Dada Bhagwan

What is the benefit of egoism? It is only through the benefit of egoism that people get their daughters married, get their sons married, walk around as a father and say 'mine, mine'! The entire world is enjoying the benefit of egoism. The Gnanis (Self-realized) enjoy the benefit of the Self. — Dada Bhagwan

I'm not interested in awards. I never have been. I don't think they are important. Don't get me wrong, if somebody gives me a prize, I thank them as gratefully as I know how, because it's very nice to be given a prize. But I don't think that awards ought to be sought. — John Hurt

As long as one sees faults with the world, he prevails in the knowledge of the senses. The inner purification has not yet occurred in him. — Dada Bhagwan

This is one place an opinion has to be made: that this body is a betrayal. — Dada Bhagwan

What is the difference between aradhana (worship) and bhajana (to be one with)? Aradhana (worship) means the attention will go over and over again there, and bhajana (oneness) means continuous engrossment. One is to do aradhana (worship) and bhajana (oneness) for only one's own Self; everything else will carry on naturally. — Dada Bhagwan

Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap. — Benedict Cumberbatch

We can make detours with our mind but we can't distract the truth from our heart. — Nikki Rowe

When a man's trust is violated, he will leave even his friend. Hey, you shouldn't leave him! There is the energy of the absolute Self within and if the knowledge of the Self is attained, one may even attain the state of the absolute-Self! — Dada Bhagwan

Nothing can be attained until all supports other than those of the pure Soul have been eliminated. — Dada Bhagwan

Once a person starts seeing his own mistakes, he starts to become Parmatma, (absolute supreme Self)! — Dada Bhagwan

To 'us', nothing except the Soul (Atma) is beautiful, and there is indeed no such thing as bad in this world. Bad is to deviate from one's own 'boundary' (to not remain as the Self). — Dada Bhagwan

Faithful to the word given and the idea had. — Fernando Pessoa

And if joy were not on the earth,
There were an end of change and birth,
And Earth and Heaven and Hell would die,
And in some gloomy barrow lie
Folded like a frozen fly ... — William Butler Yeats

Questions change; Answers remain the same. — Abhishek Leela Pandey

One of my favorites: I feel stupid asking, but I've learned it's more stupid not to ask what I don't know. From the book Magic Numbers — Deb Hosey White

There is no progress (spiritual) in this world like the one that comes from being cheated knowingly. This is a very high principle. — Dada Bhagwan

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

He who can see his own mistake can become absolute supreme Self (Parmatma)! — Dada Bhagwan

Without action, we are going to continue to allow Iran to be a safe harbor for terrorists, see its economy further deteriorate, and see the Middle East further destabilize. — Russ Carnahan