2,111 Quotes About Self-realization

When it comes to progress, the process of discovering which incentives will help you move forward is a large part of the equation.

The universe does not provide obstacles, the universe provides opportunities to view your situation different which leads to progress. You choose how to view your situation: obstacle vs. opportunity.

You cannot protest against prejudice while supporting the evils behind it by succumbing to the mindset they have placed upon you.

Honesty with yourself about yourself is the only way to ensure you will create a different outcome by changing the roots of your thinking. You cannot change what you do not admit to.

Validation from another person is superficial and can only be as true as the validation you have for yourself.

Acknowledgement of your personal truths will bring clarity to your path.

Dependency on drugs is quite easily proclaimed by the so-called intellectual society as lethal, while that very society has been ever-lastingly dependent upon varied forms of ideologies, be it religious, atheistic, political or any other. They say, “don’t do drugs for it’s dangerous for you”, but they never say, “don’t do ideology for it’s dangerous for your society”.

Always maintain a healthy distance between the self and your aggression. Observe the rise and fall of your aggression in any situation but never let it overwhelm you, because when aggression overwhelms the self, the self becomes aggression and acts quite similar to a wild beast driven by a fight or flight response.

In any broken place there rests tangible evidence of those who came before us and in touching what they left, we can for a time touch them.