2,111 Quotes About Self-realization

He was a mystery to me because he stood between “right” and “wrong.

I believe that the heart is the master of our lives, the mind our powerful servant, and the body the bridge between them.

You - your thoughts, your emotions, your actions are the real practical tools of peace and progress and not all the manifestos, doctrines, institutions and parties in the world.

Shift your focus from the issue called “peace” for the time being, and place it upon the simple everyday action of acceptance. Build your whole being on the edifice of acceptance, and there will no longer be any need for pompous organizations to bring peace on earth.

If you have realized your responsibility towards your society, then you are more enlightened that all the priests, imams and pundits combined.

Nothing about you is worthless, unless you choose to do yourself less.

Do not put your life at risk, for someone who does not care about you.

The key to happiness is to know the truth about yourself - to understand you really are. Most people wrongly identify themselves with their feeling, thoughts, likes and dislikes. When they feel anger, they think, ‘I am angry. This is my anger.’ They consequently spend their life avoiding some kinds of feelings and pursuing others. They never realise that they are not their feelings, and that the relentless pursuit of particular feelings just traps them in misery.

There is poetry in the meanest of lives, and if we leave it unsought we leave ourselves unrealized.