561 Quotes About Self-knowledge

Our lives teach us who we are." I have learned the hard way that when you permit anyone else's description of reality to supplant your own ... then you might as well be dead.

The knower of truth remains soul-centered, transcends life and becomes immortal.

Life is meant for the realization of God, one who surrenders himself to God in the spirit of divine consciousness attains immortality.

Gaining the sense of immortality or eternal life will make you appear like a god, prophet or saint before those who lack self knowledge.

I had never heard someone his age say, I know myself. It intimidated me.

They say that to know oneself is to know all there is that is human. But of course no one can ever know himself. Nothing human is fully calculable; even to ourselves we are strange.

My species should know the following about itself:-The universe created the ultimate abstract life-form by creating man, but scarcity “programmed” him to this current, ridiculously diminished version of himself.-Everyone and every community (clan) is everybody’s and every community’s future ally and brother in arms in what will be humanity’s decisive stand against scarcity, whether they realize it, desire it, or deny it.

When you overcome the fear of being judged by others, you are free from the fear of losing something and then you always keep yourself open to do any work, whatever it may be; Thus you will see that opportunity is always in front of you.

To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.