Quotes about self-realisation

Raphael Zernoff -

The purpose of life is to live it being self-aware in the eternal now with its infinite versions of us. It is about living our dreams, and not just dreaming about living them one day.

Rossana Condoleo -

There's a way, a way way too long but reachable, not for everyone a way but possible... Go and don't lose your way!

Aldous Huxley - The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell

I took my pill at eleven. An hour and half later I was sitting in my study, looking intently at a small glass vase. The vase contained only three flowers -- a full-blown Belle of Portugal rose, shell pink with a hint at every petal's base of a hotter, flamier hue; a large magenta and cream-coloured carnation; and, pale purple at the end of its broken stalk, the bold heraldic blossom of an iris. Fortuitous and provisional, the little nosegay broke all the rules of traditional good taste. At break

Dada Bhagwan -

The ‘knowledge’ (gnan) that was resulting into ‘the things to be known’ (gneya) when that ‘knowledge’ results in the ‘Knower’ (gnata) this is known as Self-Realization [Atma Gnan].

Dada Bhagwan -

To be able to see one’s own faults this is known as Enlightened vision (Samkit Self-realization right belief).

Dada Bhagwan -

Where the Self [Soul] is forgotten that place is not ours.

Dada Bhagwan -

The person whose attention is in the ‘pure Soul’ is known as a renowned person. No one in the past had been celebrated as a famous person they were called renowned persons. To be famous is the result of an ‘above normal’ state.

Frantz Fanon - White Masks

I want the world to recognize with me the open door of every consciousness

Cherry Tigris - Toilet Paper People: no ONE is perfect

Still on speaking terms with the Toilet Paper People, they consented to a box full of Legos that overnight manifested itself into a recording studio. I quickly remembered the power of my hands, my imagination, my will, and my conscience. These were tools I would never let myself get bored with. I would find myself in Blue Ocean Strategy and in other defining ways.

Friedrich Nietzsche - The Gay Science

The good men of every age are those who go to the roots of the old thoughts and bear fruit with them.

Katia M. S. -

To help someone, or make them feel special; all it needs is to offer the tools which are thrust, and guidance, and show that you believe in the persons potential. The product is musical notes floating everywhere.”Katia M. S.

Dada Bhagwan -

This’ path is not to be followed through force. It is to be followed through understanding.

Raphael Zernoff -

We cannot perceive what we are not vibrationally a part of. We cannot be affected by an experience of evil, when we are focused on peace, harmony and love.

Raphael Zernoff -

There is no real need to save others, because they will help themselves learning from us, when we choose to shine our light of unconditional love. Through our loving examples others can create, for themselves, an opportunity to act the way they are inspired by us.

Rebecca O'Dwyer - Centred Woman -

Our challenges will probably always be with us but, as we go on our journey of development, we become more aware of them, we come to accept them more, and they have less power over us.

Dada Bhagwan -

One achieves the Self-state (swa-artha) while searching for the highest truth (param-artha). The search for the highest truth is solely for the purpose of attaining the Self, and once the Self is attained there is no need to search for the highest truth.

Dada Bhagwan -

A true swarthi (interested in the Self) will become the absolute Self! This is considered paraartha (for the non-Self). A swarthi will attain the ‘Self’.

Dada Bhagwan -

Knowledge that brings closure [settlement] to the mind in every way is Absolute Knowledge and it indeed is the all encompassing Knowledge that always gives complete closure [settlement, solutions].

Dada Bhagwan -

One is said to be enlightened with the Right Knowledge when his conduct is appropriate in any situation.

Dada Bhagwan -

One who does wrong is considered illusioned (mithyatvi - ignorance of the Self). One who does right is considered enlightened (samkit).

Dada Bhagwan -

Life is there to attain Liberation while going through the experience of it. It should not be ‘above normal’ or ‘below normal,’ it should be ‘normal’.

Dada Bhagwan -

Why is there so much problem just to know one’s own Soul? The Soul resides in one’s own abode (body), but one doesn’t know it and then he says, ‘I know this and I know that so’. Instead why don’t you get to know your own ‘Self’?

Dada Bhagwan -

Once the bliss of the Soul (Self) is attained, it never leaves you. Bliss of the Soul (Self) is eternal.

Dada Bhagwan -

What does ‘experience of the soul’ mean? It is a state of constant eternal bliss.

Dada Bhagwan -

Who am I?’- Not knowing this is the greatest death to the Soul (one’s own self)!

Dada Bhagwan -

Samkit’ (right belief) means knowing the Soul (self).

Dada Bhagwan -

The greatest wonder of this world is the “Soul”. Once It is realized (attained), everything is attained!!!

Dada Bhagwan -

To ‘us’, nothing except the Soul (Atma) is beautiful, and there is indeed no such thing as bad in this world. Bad is to deviate from one’s own ‘boundary’ (to not remain as the Self).

Dada Bhagwa -

Natural Self is the Soul and illusion is the relative self [prakruti].

Dada Bhagwa -

He who can see his own mistake can become absolute supreme Self (Parmatma)!

Dada Bhagwan -

Once a person starts seeing his own mistakes, he starts to become Parmatma, (absolute supreme Self)!

Dada Bhagwan -

As long as one finds faults with the world, he won’t be able to find anything about the Soul (Self). He who sees his own faults is the Soul (Self) himself!

Dada Bhagwan -

Nothing can be attained until all supports other than those of the pure Soul have been eliminated.

Dada Bhagwan -

Even a child cannot sit here without support. Some support will be necessary. No one can live without the support from the material world. After getting the support from one’s own Soul, one doesn’t need the support from the material world. ‘He’ will then become independent [support-free].

Lailah Gifty Akita -

Sufferings lead a man to his soul.

Dada Bhagwan -

When a man’s trust is violated, he will leave even his friend. Hey, you shouldn’t leave him! There is the energy of the absolute Self within and if the knowledge of the Self is attained, one may even attain the state of the absolute-Self!

Dada Bhagwan -

How can one become free from the mind? If he lives as if he is dead, then he can become free from his mind.

Dada Bhagwan -

What is the benefit of egoism? It is only through the benefit of egoism that people get their daughters married, get their sons married, walk around as a father and say ‘mine, mine’! The entire world is enjoying the benefit of egoism. The Gnanis (Self-realized) enjoy the benefit of the Self.

Dada Bhagwan -

The one who knowingly gets cheated is entitled to liberation!

Dada Bhagwan -

There is no progress (spiritual) in this world like the one that comes from being cheated knowingly. This is a very high principle.

Dada Bhagwan -

If there is true ‘Selfishness,’ then there is ‘liberation of the Self’, and that indeed is one’s own form (the Self).

Dada Bhagwan -

If there is wrong [ill] on the inside, the outside will appear wrong. Therefore, you should inquire within ‘why am I bothered, when others are not? So there must be wrong within me only.

Dada Bhagwan -

What is the difference between aradhana (worship) and bhajana (to be one with)? Aradhana (worship) means the attention will go over and over again there, and bhajana (oneness) means continuous engrossment. One is to do aradhana (worship) and bhajana (oneness) for only one’s own Self; everything else will carry on naturally.

Dada Bhagwan -

This is one place an opinion has to be made: that this body is a betrayal.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

Daily mediate the Holy Scriptures.

Dada Bhagwan -

As long as one sees faults with the world, he prevails in the knowledge of the senses. The inner purification has not yet occurred in him.

Anita B. Sulser PhD - We Are One

All religious and spiritual practices lead to one deep realisation: We Are One. All is One.

Chitralekha Paul - Delayed Monsoon

lots of things happen in our lives without any apparent justification. but whatever happens to us,takes us one step ahead in the path of self realisation.The truth is we all are travellers in the life's eternal journey, to meet for a short while,to care and share but we tend to forget that nothing lasts forever.if only we could cultivate a sense of detachment,life would have been much easier.

Dada Bhagwan -

When is one considered a vitarag (free of attachment)? It is when he has no fear of anything in this world.

Swami Vivekananda -

Do not believe a thing because you have read about it in a book. Do not believe a thing because another man has said it was true. Do not believe in words because they are hallowed by tradition. Find out the truth for yourself. Reason it out. That is realization.

Rodolfo Rios Medina - Beyond Obscurity

The unknown scares man, but those who confront it, will cease to fear it" (Rodolfo Rios Medina)

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

God’s presence is the gift of prayer.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

I am a child of God.

Raphael Zernoff -

Whenever we decide to create a greater degree of change in our lives we need to start doing things differently. Any external change only reflects the inner transformation. Hence whenever we decide to change our lives, it does not happen through manipulation of the external reality. Any external change is a pure reflection of the inner change. We must change our perceptions, beliefs, feelings, thoughts, the way we talk and express ourselves, in order to see a significant change in our realities.

Raphael Zernoff -

When we choose to operate on the frequency of compassion and kindness, we create, and reinforce our own realities, as filled with compassion and kindness.

Tim Urban -

Atheism isn’t a growth model any more than “I don’t like rollerblading” is a workout strategy.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

Awaken the spirit of divinity in you.