4,826 Quotes About Self

How can you consider happiness to be in the worldly life (sansaar)? You have just (falsely) believed it to be happiness. Happiness lies in having freedom. There should be no superior above you. As long as you have a ‘boss’ above you, till then how can you call it happiness?

I am Chandulal’ is the greatest blunder. Mistakes can be forgiven, but not the blunders.

If the ownership of this ‘plot (non-Self)’ ceases, one will become the owner of the whole universe. And if one becomes the owner of this ‘plot (non-Self)’, he loses the ownership of the universe.

Who is God? He who, despite having a body, is not the owner of the body, not the owner of the mind, not the owner of the speech, he is not the owner of anything, that person is God in this world.

There is no one in the world to bother the one who wants to see only his own faults, and no one else’s.

Whatever is done for the Self (Soul), it is Yours, and the rest is for others (other than the self).

I asked Morrie if he felt sorry for himself. "Sometimes, in the mornings," he said. "That's when I mourn. I feel around my body, I move my fingers and my hands - whatever I can still move - and I mourn what I've lost. I mourn the slow, insidious way in which I'm dying. But then I stop mourning.

Inner intent’s resolve of the ownership-state (of one’s mind, body, speech, etc.) through attachment- abhorrence (raag-dwesh) is called parigraha (owning things other than the self, the pure soul)

I give myself a good cry if I need it. But then I concentrate on all the good things still in my life. On the people who are coming to see me. On the stories I'm going to hear. On you - if it's Tuesday. Because we're Tuesday people.