4,826 Quotes About Self

Gross circumstances, subtle circumstances, and circumstances of the speech are of the non-Self (not mine); and dependent on an external power. External circumstances are gross (tangible; sthool). The thoughts of the mind are subtle (shookshma) circumstances, and the circumstances of speech are of the non-Self, and dependent upon external power. They are not in our control.

The mind works like a radar. If you try to destroy the mind, you will become absent minded. The mind takes you to moksha. You are not to get rid of it. When the mind shows fear, you should get back into the ‘cave’ of Pure Soul (our True Self).

It is an honour to see someone living as their true-self, someone living without fear of other people’s opinions. Act as you are, you honour the world with your presence.

Your beauty is in your differences not your similarities. Be yourself, share your quirks. The world does not improve when everyone acts the same, the world improves when people act as their unique self.

One has to know the nature of the Soul. One has to be determined to know it. Wouldn't a person need to know it? Nothing is attained by just saying, ‘I am the Soul, I am the Soul.’ The Soul has to come in to one’s experience. Until then, the worldly problems will not go away, will they?

Egoism is harmful, the moment one realizes that then everything will become straightforward. The ego is not worth protecting.

Spirituality is not an action, it is a vision. Worldly people’s vision is towards worldly life whereas ‘this’ is a spiritual vision. After the Gnani Purush (the enlightened one) changes the vision, one begins to see spirituality towards that side.

The self is undone before the impossibility of naming: all the previously known names and essentialist categories representing the world and the self are dismantled.

Science (vignan) means that which frees one just by ‘knowing’. Nothing needs to be done. Knowledge that keeps working on its own is called science.