Self Realization Quotes

• Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wisdom, Travel, Character

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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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• Self Realization is the first encounter with reality.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Yoga, Reality, Self

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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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• Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Contentment, Desire, Mindfulness

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• The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle.

  Sivananda

  Inspiring, Stay Strong, Struggle

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• Dive into your heart center. Sit in the silence. Desire self-realization with all your heart, with all your mind, and all your soul. Everything will take care of itself.

  Robert Adams

  Heart, Self, Silence

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• Life is an aspiration. Its mission is to strive after perfection, which is self-realization. The ideal must not be lowered because of our weaknesses or imperfections.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Self, Perfection

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.68, A&C Black

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• We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Inspirational, Learning, Growth

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• Love is the easiest and most effective way to begin our search for self-realization.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Love Is, Self

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• The deeper the Self-realization of a man, the more he influences the whole universe by his subtle spiritual vibrations, and the less he himself is affected by the phenomenal flux.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Spiritual, Men, Self

  Paramahansa Yogananda (2016). “Autobiography of a Yogi: (Complete Edition)”, p.166, Yogoda Satsanga Society of India

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• Your duty is to Be, and not to be this or that.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Letting Go, Meditation Practice, Duty

  Ramana Maharshi (2004). “The Spiritual Teaching of Ramana Maharshi”, p.86, Shambhala Publications

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• Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities. Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. But with self-confidence you can succeed. A sense of inferiority and inadequacy interferes with the attainment of your hopes, but self-confidence leads to self-realization and successful achievement.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Believe, Humble, Successful

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2003). “The Power of Positive Thinking: 10 Traits for Maximum Results”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• Once you start growing in your self-realization, you develop such a personality that you see the whole world as one.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• Self-realization is the knowing in all parts of body, mind, and soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Self, Knowing, Soul

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• There is no greater mystery than this, that we keep seeking reality though in fact we are reality.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Reality, Realization, Facts

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• Love is self-realization. Love is liberation. The only way beyond time, to unravel the knot of existence, is to love.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Buddhism, Love Is

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• To know one's Self is to be blissful always.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Self, Knows

  Ramana (Maharshi.), Paul Brunton, Mungala Venkataramiah (1984). “Conscious Immortality: Conversations with Ramana Maharshi”

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• Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.

  William Butler Yeats

  Men, History, Finding Yourself

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• There is no higher or lower goal. There is only one goal, Self-Realization.

  Meher Baba

  Self, Goal, Realization

  Meher Baba (1975). “Questions Meher Baba Answered”

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  In Plato 'Apology' 38a

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• I discovered for myself and by myself that there is no self to realize -- that's the realization I am talking about. It comes as a shattering blow. It hits you like a thunderbolt. You have invested everything in one basket, self-realization, and, in the end, suddenly you discover that there is no self to discover, no self to realize -- and you say to yourself "What the hell have I been doing all my life?!" That blasts you.

  U.G. Krishnamurti

  Blow, Self, Talking

  U. G. Krishnamurti, Rodney Arms (2002). “The Mystique of Enlightenment: The Radical Ideas of U. G. Krishnamurti”, p.2, Sentient Publications

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• Self-realization is the last game on earth worth playing.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Self

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• Self-realization is effortless. What you are trying to find is what you already are.

  Ramesh S Balsekar

  Self, Trying, Realization

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• Nearly all mankind is more or less unhappy because nearly all do not know the true Self. Real happiness abides in Self-knowledge alone. All else is fleeting. To know one's Self is to be blissful always.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Happiness, Real, Self

  Ramana (Maharshi.), Paul Brunton, Mungala Venkataramiah (1984). “Conscious Immortality: Conversations with Ramana Maharshi”

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