2,111 Quotes About Self-realization

What is inside, is also outside,

The need of the hour is self-expansion, not self-absorption.

Sometimes our Biggest Nightmare turns out to be our Biggest Gift. And it all comes down to our attitude. Life will throw us curve balls and disappointments, even heartbreak. But ultimately we can choose if we're going to be Bitter or Better for the experience.

The only limit to the realisation of our goals will be lack of enthusiasm.

Oneness has to be realized, not created. Those who try to create oneness in the world end up creating one more group, one more sect, one more division.

A chemical may react with some chemicals and remain indifferent to others. Similarly we get attached to some people (positively or negatively) and remain indifferent to others. Attachment is not love. Love makes you realize that you are something more than an organism, more than a body-mind.

In a movie, when a character receives a letter, she reads it aloud for the audience. Other characters of the movie can’t know the secret, but she tells it to the audience.Be the audience if you want to know the deepest secrets of the universe. Be the audience if you want to make sense of what is happening around you. Your character is the doer while your soul is the audience. Be at the level of soul more often.

When the mind is completely still, then all movement ceases. Beneath the substrate of consciousness is that which the sages of Vedanta call the Absolute. While the Absolute cannot be described, it is only known by negation. Remove everything from the equation, and there it is, right here all along.

In the forest canopied with the leafy niche of daily events, a benevolent listener reverberates in the canonical poetry of the ages humming irrepressible visceral contradictions. A squall of tears of bereavement pierces the elegiac sea of a silent night. The red-rimmed eye of sunrise greets us with a torrent of rage spilling over from frontlines of an examined life’s vital quarrels. The flute of life ushers in a welcoming breeze of reassuring resonance.