2,111 Quotes About Self-realization

Instead of licking the boots of the rich people and bowing before them daily—We can stop doing that by simply knowing our worth in life.

In seeking God, you discover she is now-here and everywhere - in every heart, in every breath, in every thought, and in every pulse of the Universe. You are neither the body nor the mind, and the love of the self in you is the love for the God in you - the supreme witnessing self.

Feel like Christ and you will be a Christ; feel like Buddha and you will be a Buddha. It is feeling that is the life, the strength, the vitality, without which no amount of intellectual activity can reach God.

… Why do you think monkeys don’t let the peanuts go off their fists … to freedom? … Monkey’s self-image of perching high in the crown, munching on fisted peanuts, has already enchained him before the hunter does. …

… Most of us cling to our ‘peanuts’ long enough to let the ‘monkey-hunter’ catch us. Consequently, we don’t let our full potential to bloom….

Love in its purest form, is devoid of all expectation, sexual or otherwise. It is pure care - not selfless mark you, for selfless implies there is no self involved, rather it's a care which saturates the self with meaning, purpose and with an absolute sense of effortless belonging - it is the highest fulfillment of the self.

Self-observation is the highest faculty of an advanced species - a species of conscience and character.

Your improvement may bother people who are used to you existing below their level. They may openly campaign for you to get your life together, but they secretly relish their superiority over you.

Progress on the social ladder is almost always the result of progress in other areas of your life.