2,111 Quotes About Self-realization

Never say you understand someone's pain if you haven't felt the same, because not only would you sound mocking but also ignorant.

Instead of trying to hide yourself from the world, make it your signature trait. Make what most people think to be the worst of you become something your proud of.

Make your flaw your strength.

Realization includes everything, the mundane and the transcendental. In true awakening, nothing stands apart and nothing is excluded. If we find ourselves in a state where something is excluded, that state, however amazing it is, is still a dualistic state.

I need to open this door of self in order to throw out everything that is useless and to save the meaning ofthe things I have to keep.

Service of self is best developed in dealings of service to others.

Not knowing anything, not searching for anything, understanding that we can’t hold on to anything, leaves us with nothing — nothing except our original nature, pure awareness.

Don’t cry for them to be happy.

It’s only the ego that wants to surrender the ego; the real meaning of surrender does not involve anything external. It means to surrender to your true nature.