4,826 Quotes About Self

Blessed are we who can laugh at ourselves for we shall never cease to be amused. -Proverb

When you hit rock bottom;test your limits, compete with yourself and challenge your potential.There is no greater glory than self achievement.

God is the ultimate ground of Being, and this ultimate ground of Being is YOU. For one who realizes their true nature as God, as Consciousness, life becomes a joy without end.

Liberation is not possible even after a million lifetimes. Your work [of liberation] is getting done only because you have met a living Gnani Purush. The absolute Gnani is One for whom nothing in this world remains to be known. He is constantly conversing with the absolute Self (Parmatma); such a Gnani can do whatever he wishes!

The self contained within the scriptures will not do. The real Self is needed, One that is incomprehensible, One that cannot be inscribed in the scriptures, One that is indescribable, inexpressible. Where words do not reach, where the vision cannot reach, there lies the Self! That Self prevails in an absolutely untainted state, it indeed prevails in a state free from association!

To say that Knowledge of the Self (Gnan) is exactly the same as that other knowledge is considered as speaking contrary to fact (viradhana). Knowledge of the Self is [real] Knowledge and no matter how much 'light' there is in ignorance (agnan; relative knowledge), yet it is still ignorance. To refer to ignorance as Knowlege would be deemed as speaking contrary to fact about Knowledge!

By prevailing in ignorance [of the Self], worldly life gets charged. By prevailing in the Knowledge of the Self, worldly life discharges!

The body is the eater. The eater does not Know and the Knower does not eat. Actions are carried out by another element (partattva) and the Knower is the element of the Self! The one who steals and the one being robbed are both the non-Self (anatma)!

Subject and object are not separate—so-called objective reality is projected by our subjective Consciousness.