Realisation Quotes

• When you believe yourself to be a person, you see persons everywhere. In reality there are no persons, only threads of memories and habits. At the moment of realisation the person ceases.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Memories, Believe, Reality

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  All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.

  James Thurber

  Running, Learning, Humor

  James Thurber (1978). “Further fables for our time”, Simon & Schuster

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• Fearlessness means faith in God: faith in his protection, His justice, His wisdom, His mercy, His love, and His Omnipresence... To be fit for Self-realization man must be fearless.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Faith, Mean, Men

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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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• People think of these eureka moments and my feeling is that they tend to be little things, a little realisation and then a little realisation built on that.

  Roger Penrose

  Thinking, People, Feelings

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• Life is perpetually creative because it contains in itself that surplus which ever overflows the boundaries of the immediate time and space, restlessly pursuing its adventure of expression in the varied forms of self-realization.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Life, Adventure, Self

  Rabindranath Tagore (1994). “The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany”, p.580, Sahitya Akademi

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• Every true, eternal problem is an equally true, eternal fault; every answer an atonement, every realisation an improvement.

  Otto Weininger

  Answers, Faults, Improvement

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• To take an analogy: if we say that a democratic government is the best kind of government, we mean that it most completely fulfills the highest function of a government - the realisation of the will of the people.

  John Drinkwater

  Mean, Government, People

  John Drinkwater (1922). “The Lyric: An Essay”

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• Self-realisation means that we have been consciously connected with our source of being. Once we have made this connection, then nothing can go wrong.

  Swami Paramananda

  Mean, Self, Connections

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• Know that you are a spark of God and can exist fully only within the realization of that profound truth. As such, you are a light and inspiration to others.

  Harold Klemp

  Inspirational, God, Christian

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• Your own Self-realization is the greatest service you can render the world.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Life, Inspiring, Self

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

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• Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.

  Richard Wright

  Integrity, Men, Self

  Richard Wright (1957). “Native Son”, p.366, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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• The blood and sweat shed by United States and United Nations troops proved to be the prime mover behind the realisation of freedom throughout the post-war period.

  Kim Young-sam

  War, Blood, Sweat

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• Real music is not for wealth, not for honours or even the joys of the mind... but as a path for realisation and salvation.

  Ali Akbar Khan

  Inspirational, Music, Real

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• After Self-Realisation it is easy to perceive the truth that all these religions were born on the same tree of spirituality, but that those in charge of each religion plucked the flowers from the living source and are now fighting each other with the dead flowers of merely partial truths.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Flower

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• In nature there is a fundamental unity running through all the diversity we see about us. Religions are given to mankind so as to accelerate the process of realisation of fundamental unity.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Running, Diversity, Religion

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• Wherever there has been expansion in love or progress in well-being, of individuals or numbers, it has been through the perception, realisation, and the practicalisation of the Eternal Truth-the oneness of all beings

  Swami Vivekananda

  Oneness, Numbers, Perception

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2402, Manonmani Publishers

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• The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart.

  Julien Green

  Heart, Men, Discovery

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• One ounce of the practice of righteousness and of spiritual Self-realisation outweighs tons and tons of frothy talk and nonsensical sentiments.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Spiritual, Self, Practice

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.975, Manonmani Publishers

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• All great movements, it is written, go through three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption. It is the realisation of this third stage, adoption, that requires our passion and our discipline, our hearts and our heads. The fate of animals is in our hands.

  Tom Regan

  Passion, Heart, Fate

  Tom Regan (1987). “The struggle for animal rights”, Intl Society for Animal

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• I think people are finally realising that women are interesting and more interesting the older they get. But it's taken a while for that realisation to happen.

  Christine Bottomley

  Taken, Thinking, People

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• A melancholy lesson of advancing years is the realisation that you can't make old friends.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Years, Old Friends, Lessons

  Christopher Hitchens (2014). “Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere”, p.336, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I think that it is a part of growing up, learning to control our suffering. I think that when we grow up, and learn that happiness is rare, and passes quickly, we become disillusioned and hurt. And how much we suffer is a mark of how much we have been hurt by this realisation. Suffering, you see, is a kind of anger. We rage against the unfairness, the injustice of our sad and sorry lot.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Hurt, Growing Up, Sorry

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.262, Macmillan

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• The greatest potential for growth and self-realisation exists in the second half of life.

  Carl Jung

  Self, Growth, Age

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• While I was travelling and I kind of had the classic realisation - that I guess most teenagers have at some point - that time's gonna run out and that's not in my power to change that.

  George Ezra

  Running, Teenager, Classic

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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