52 Quotes Tagged: self-realization

Satori - in the awakening from a dream. Awakening and self-realization and seeing into one's own being - these are synonymous.

I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.

Sometimes it happens that you become one, in some rare moment. Watch the ocean, the tremendous wildness of it — and suddenly you forget your split, your schizophrenia; you relax. Or, moving in the Himalayas, seeing the virgin snow on the Himalayan peaks, suddenly a coolness surrounds you and you need not be false because there is no other human being to be false to. You fall together.

प्रेम गली अति संकरी, तामें दाऊ न समाई |
जब में था तब हरी नहीं, अब हरी है में नाहीं ||

The street of love is very narrow, two can’t pass through it at the same time

When I was, there was no God (Hari), now there is God but I am not.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?

When you do the things you need to do when you need to do them, the day will come when you can do the things you want to do when you want to do them.

"To become what one is, one must not have the faintest notion of what one is... The whole surface of consciousness - for consciousness -is- a surface - must be kept clear of all great imperatives. Beware even of every great word, every great pose! So many dangers that the instinct comes too soon to "understand itself" — .

Meanwhile, the organizing idea that is destined to rule keeps growing deep down - it begins to command, slowly it leads us back from side roads and wrong roads; it prepares single qualities and fitnesses that will one day prove to be indispensable as a means toward a whole - one by one, it trains all subservient capacities before giving any hint of the dominant task, "goal," "aim," or "meaning.

Somebody took my actual physical presence away and substituted this

Truthis like a vast tree, which yields more and more fruit, the more you nurture it

Having no resources within himself, he was compelled to be the copyist of many, and being such, he was forever the victim of inconsistency;

It's not finding yourself that's hard; it's facing yourself that is.

Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act, and in that action are the seeds of new knowledge.

He was home, but he wasn't. He had gotten where he had to go, but he hadn't. He had found out who he was, but he didn't know why it had failed to satify his questions.

I can last two months on a good compliment.

Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.