Best eternal & self Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Being present. The mind is like a butterfly that flits from one flower to the next. Seldom do we find ourselves nestled in the excuisite and eternal ocean of here and now. When you are, you can connect with your true self that is beyond the chattering of your mind. When you take the effort to focus your drifting consciousness to become fully awake to the present moment, you will discover the glorious light that dwells within you.”

Mind Self Moments Light Next Effort Consciousness Focus Flower Ocean Eternal Awake Glorious Present Moment Butterfly Within You True Self Here And Now Drifting Like A Butterfly

Author:Denise Linn

“Crude absurdities, trivial nonsense, and sublime truths are equally potent in readying people for self-sacrifice if they are accepted as the sole, eternal truth”

People Ifs Self Truth Sacrifice Eternal Accepted Nonsense Sole Absurdity Sublime Crude Self Sacrifice

Book:Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“But so many Christians are like deaf people at a concert. They study the programme carefully, believe every statement make in it, speak respectfully of the quality of the music, but only really hear a phrase now and again. So they have no notion at all of the mighty symphony which fills the universe, to which our lives are destined to make their tiny contribution, and which is the self-expression of the Eternal God.”

Source: Advent with Evelyn Underhill

“No self is of itself alone. It has a long chain of intellectual ancestors. The "I" is chained to ancestry by many factors ... This is not mere allegory, but an eternal memory.”

Long Self Memories Eternal Intellectual Mere Factors Chains Ancestor Ancestry Allegory Chained

Author:Erwin Schrodinger

“In that undifferentiated reality of the Self there is eternal bliss. All the phantoms of existence fade away.”

Self Reality Existence Eternal Yoga Bliss Fades Phantoms Fade Away

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The Self is infinite. The Self is eternal. You are that Self. Beyond words, thoughts, ideas, forms and belief systems. There is nothing but the Self.”

Ideas Self Form Belief Eternal Yoga Infinite Belief Systems

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Charity is an unending self-discipline which always looks and leads towards the eternal affection. Therefore, its triumph shall be lasting and everlasting.”

Looks Self Discipline Eternal Charity Affection Triumph Lasting Self Discipline Everlasting Unending

Author:Julia Ward Howe

“Either consciously or unconsciously we are searching for the highest Self, which is at once eternal and infinite.”

Self Eternal Highest Infinite

Author:Sri Chinmoy

“I know no other way out of what is both the maze of the eternal present and the prison of the self except with a string of words.”

Knows Way Self Eternal Prison Strings Simile Mazes Hyperbole

Author:Lewis H. Lapham

“It hath been said, that there is of nothing so much in hell as of self-will. The which is true, for there is nothing else there than self-will, and if there were no self-will, there would be no Devil and no hell. When it is said that Lucifer fell from Heaven, and turned away from God and the like, it meaneth nothing else than that he would have his own will, and would not be at one with the Eternal Will. So was it likewise with Adam in Paradise. And when we say Self-will, we mean, to will otherwise than as the One and Eternal Will of God willeth.”

Ifs Mean Said Self Would Be Heaven Hell Eternal Devil Gods Will Paradise Adam Lucifer Self Will

Author:Martin Luther

“Spirituality is much wider than any particular religion, and in the larger ideas of it that are now coming on us even the greatest religion becomes no more than a broad sect or branch of the one universal religion, by which we shall understand in the future man's seeking for the eternal, the divine, the greater self, the source of unity and his attempt to arrive at some equation, some increasing approximation of the values of human life with the eternal and the divine values.”

Men Humans Ideas Self Values Spirituality Greater Divine Particular Source Eternal Universal Unity Seeking Human Life Branches Broads Equations Sects Approximation Value Of Human Life

Book:Bulletin

Source: Bulletin

“What, on the eternal list of priorities, precedes health? What more obvious role could government have than the defense of the life, of each citizen? We cannot stop every germ that seeks to harm us any more than we can stop every person who seeks to harm us. But we can try dammit and government's essential role in that effort facilitate it, reduce its cost, broaden its availability, improve my health and yours, seems, ultimately, self-explanatory.”

Trying Persons Self Seems Government Effort Roles Health Citizens Cost Essentials Eternal Obvious Harm Defense Lists Priorities Germs Facilitate Availability

Author:Keith Olbermann

“It is an impressive truth that sometimes in the very lowest forms of duty, less than which would rank a man as a villain, there is, nevertheless the sublimest ascent of self-sacrifice. To do less would class you as an object of eternal scorn, to do so much presumes the grandeur of heroism.”

Men Self Sometimes Form Class Sacrifice Objects Duty Eternal Villain Heroism Nevertheless Lowest Scorn Impressive Grandeur Self Sacrifice Ascent

Book:De Quincey's works

Source: De Quincey's works

“There is but on virtue--the eternal sacrifice of self.”

Self Virtue Sacrifice Eternal Unselfishness

Book:Jacques

Source: Jacques

“The Perennial Philosophy is expressed most succinctly in the Sanskrit formula, tat tvam asi ('That art thou'); the Atman, or immanent eternal Self, is one with Brahman, the Absolute Principle of all existence; and the last end of every human being, is to discover the fact for himself, to find out who he really is.”

Humans Art Ends Self Philosophy Facts Lasts Human Beings Existence Principles Eternal Absolutes Formulas Brahman Atman Sanskrit

Book:The Perennial Philosophy: An Interpretation of the Great Mystics, East and West

Source: The Perennial Philosophy: An Interpretation of the Great Mystics, East and West

“If a man's innate self-respect will not save him from habitual, disgusting intoxication, all the female influences in the universe would not avail. Man's will, like woman's, is stronger than the affection, and, once subjugated by vice, all eternal influences will be futile.”

Ifs Men Self Universe Influence Eternal Female Stronger Affection Vices Self Respect Disgusting Innate Drunkenness Habitual Intoxication

Book:Beulah

Source: Beulah

“Each individual is more or less dimly aware of his significance, is aware that he's something innately superior, something eternal--and lives, is obligated to live, in the moment and for the moment.”

Self Moments Life Is Individual Eternal Eternity Superiors Significance Live In The Moment Transience

Author:Ivan Turgenev

“O abyss! O eternal Godhead! O deep sea! What more could you have given me than the gift of your very self?”

Self Given Sea Eternal Abyss Deep Sea

Author:St. Catherine of Siena

“The spirit for me is the eternal self. And when one incarnates, an aspect comes with that incarnation, that's called the soul. And together the mind, the emotional body, and the soul form the energy field that lives within this thing called the human body.”

Mind Humans Soul Self Body Together Form Spirit Energy Fields Emotional Eternal Aspect Human Body Incarnation Energy Fields

Author:Caroline Myss

“Western society is a society of ever richer, more varied, more productive, more self-defined, and more satisfying lives; it is a society of boundless private charity; it is a society that broke, on behalf of merit, the seemingly eternal chains of station by birth.”

Self Birth Eternal Charity Western Chains Defined Broke Merit Productive Stations Satisfying Behalf Boundless Western Society

Author:Ibn Warraq

“The transformation toward eternal life is gradual. The heavy gross energy of body, mind, and spirit must first be purified and uplifted. When the energy ascends... then self mastery can be sought.”

Mind Firsts Self Body Life Is Spirit Energy Eternal Transformation Heavy Mastery Reincarnation Gross Eternal Life Self Mastery

Book:Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu

Source: Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu

“Nothing is eternal but that which is done for God and others. That which is done for self dies.”

Self Done Dies Eternal Eternity Deeds

Author:John H Aughey

“In that power of self-control lies the seed of eternal freedom.”

Self Lying Eternal Seeds Self Control

Book:The Law of Success: Using the Power of Spirit to Create Health, Prosperity, and Happiness

Source: The Law of Success: Using the Power of Spirit to Create Health, Prosperity, and Happiness

“To do one's best in the face of the commonplace struggles of life, and possibly in the face of failures, and to continue to endure and persevere with the ongoing difficulties of life - when those struggles and tasks contribute to the progress and happiness of others and the eternal salvation of one's self - this is true greatness.”

Self Faces Struggle Progress Greatness Eternal Tasks Difficulty Salvation Endure Ongoing Persevere Commonplace Life Struggle True Greatness

Author:Howard W. Hunter

“Know that you are God's beautiful child, always in God's hands. Accept God... accept God's protection... there is really no problem to fear. Know that you are not the clay garment. Know that you are not the self-centered nature which governs your life needlessly. Know that you are the God-centered nature, The Kingdom of God within. The Indwelling Christ. Eternal and indestructible. Identify with the real you.”

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“The progressive growth of the finite consciousness of man towards this Self, towards the universal , the eternal, the infinite, in a word his growth into spiritual consciousness by the development of his ordinary ignorant natural being into an illumined divine nature, this is for Indian thinking the significance of life and the aim of human existance.”

“Man's life on earth has only one end and purpose: to identify himself with his eternal Self and so to come to unitive knowledge of the Divine Ground.”

Men Ends Self Earth Purpose Divine Eternal Intuitive

Author:Aldous Huxley

“"Our kingdom go" is the necessary and unavoidable corollary of 'Thy kingdom come.' For the more there is self, the less there is of God. The divine eternal fulness of life can be gained only by those who have deliberately lost the partial, separative life of craving and self-interest, of egocentric thinking, feeling, wishing, and acting.”

Thinking Self Feelings Lost Wish Interest Acting Divine Eternal Kingdoms Craving Self Interest Egocentric Kingdom Come

Author:Aldous Huxley

“Space is still filled with the noise of destruction and annihilation, the shouts of self-assurance and arrogance, the weeping of despair and helplessness. But round about the horizon the eternal realities stand silent in their age-old longing. There shines on them already the first mild light of the radiant fulfillment to come. From afar sound the first notes as of pipes and voices, not yet discernable as a song or melody. It is all far off still, and only just announced and foretold. But it is happening, today.”

“The sole purpose is to provide infinite springs, at which the soul may allay the eternal thirst TO KNOW which is forever unquenchable within it, since to quench it, would be to extinguish the soul's self.”

Knows May Soul Self Would Be Purpose Forever Eternal Spring Infinite Sole Thirst Quench

Author:Edgar Allan Poe

“Ordinary mind includes eternal perceptions. Notice what you notice. Observe what's vivid. Catch yourself thinking. Vividness is self-selecting. And remember the future.”

Thinking Mind Self Remember Eternal Perception Ordinary Vivid Vividness

Author:Allen Ginsberg

“An idol is anything put in the place of God as the ultimate reality - the eternal, self-existent, uncaused cause of everything else.”

Self Reality Causes Eternal Ultimate Idols Ultimate Reality

Author:Nancy Pearcey

“Only when all images of Earth are hushed and the clamor of the senses be stilled, and the soul has passed beyond thought of self, can the eternal wisdom be revealed to the mystic who seeks that highest communion with the unseen.”

Soul Self Earth Eternal Highest Senses Communion Unseen Mystic Clamor

Author:Margaret Smith

“There is nothing so simple as being the Self. It requires no effort, no aid. One has to leave off the wrong identity and be in his (her) eternal, natural, inherent state.”

Self States Natural Simple Effort Identity Eternal Aids Inherent

Author:Ramana Maharshi

“The soul raised over passion beholds identity and eternal causation, perceives the self-existance of Truth and Right, and calms itself with knowing that all things go well.”

Wells Soul Self Passion Knowing Identity Eternal All Things Raised Calm Perceive Causation

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Far from wife and son am 1, far from land and wealth and other notions of that kind. I am the Witness, the Eternal, the Inner Self.”

Kind Self Wealth Wife Land Son Eternal Notion Witness Inner Self Wife And Son

Author:Guru Nanak

“The self as the essence of individuality is unitemporal and unique; as an archetypal symbol it is a God-image and therefore universal and eternal.”

Self Eternal Unique Essence Universal Individuality Symbols God Image

Book:Jung on Christianity

Source: Jung on Christianity

“Enlightenment is beyond self-improvement and spiritual seeking. It is the final resolution of a case of mistaken identity. It is the direct recognition of your eternal nature and the seeing through of who you have falsely believed yourself to be.”

Self Spiritual Cases Seeing Identity Eternal Self Improvement Enlightenment Direct Finals Seeking Improvement Recognition Resolution Mistaken Mistaken Identity

Author:Gary Crowley

“Become aware of the silent witness that is observing the unfolding of all the external events of your life. This eternal presence is your true Self.”

Self Events Eternal Silent Witness True Self Observing Unfolding

Author:Deepak Chopra

“Most important, do not ever think that you and God are separate. Think always, "God is with me; He is inside me; He is around me. All there is is God. I myself am God. I am the Infinite, the Eternal. I am not two; I am one, only one. There is no one else besides me. I and God are one and the same." To realize this Unity, the first step is to develop Self-confidence. It comes when you realize that God is not outside of you.”

Thinking Firsts Two Important Self Realizing Steps Eternal Infinite Unity Self Confidence First Steps

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“God is all-full. He is self-contained. He is eternal satisfaction.”

Self Eternal Satisfaction Self Contained

Author:Sivananda

“How guilt refined the methods of self-torture, threading the beads of detail into an eternal loop, a rosary to be fingered for a lifetime.”

Self Eternal Method Guilt Lifetime Details Torture Refined Loops Beads Rosary

Author:Ian Mcewan

“The distance runner is mysteriously reconciling the separations of body and mind, of pain and pleasure, of the conscious and the unconscious. He is repairing the rent, and healing the wound in his divided self. He has found a way to make the ordinary extraordinary; the commonplace unique; the everyday eternal.”

Source: Dr. George Sheehan on getting fit & feeling great

“I do understand what love is, and that is one of the reasons I can never again be a Christian. Love is not self denial. Love is not blood and suffering. Love is not murdering your son to appease your own vanity. Love is not hatred or wrath, consigning billions of people to eternal torture because they have offended your ego or disobeyed your rules. Love is not obedience, conformity, or submission. It is a counterfeit love that is contingent upon authority, punishment, or reward. True love is respect and admiration, compassion and kindness, freely given by a healthy, unafraid human being.”

Source: Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists

“You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself...the height of a man's success is gauged by his self-mastery; the depth of his failure by his self-abandonment. ...And this law is the expression of eternal justice. He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.”

Men Self Law Justice Greater Expression Discipline Eternal Eternity Depth Height Mastery Willpower Abandonment Dominion Self Mastery

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“The true purpose of life is the perfection of humanity through individual effort, under the guidance of God's inspiration. Real life is response to the best within us. To be alive only to appetite, pleasure, pride, money-making, and not to goodness and kindness, purity and love, poetry, music, flowers, stars, God and eternal hopes, is to deprive one's self of the real joy of living.”

“... is it truly possible to steal a life, if... the Self is eternal and cannot die? Should this be so, then one who 'murders' does no more than transgress against the will of another, whose choice it is to live. At bottom, a murderer offends not against the body, but against the spirit.”

Ifs Should Doe Self Body Spirit Dies Choices Eternal Murder Bottom Stealing Murderer

Author:Ki Longfellow

“We must understand that God does not "love" us without liking us - through gritted teeth - as "Christian" love is sometimes thought to do. Rather, out of the eternal freshness of his perpetually self-renewed being, the heavenly Father cherishes the earth and each human being upon it. The fondness, the endearment, the unstintingly affectionate regard of God toward all his creatures is the natural outflow of what he is to the core - which we vainly try to capture with our tired but indispensable old word "love".”

“God made you to love him supremely, but he lost you. He returned to get you back, but it took the cross to do it. He absorbed your darkness so that one day you can finally and dazzlingly become your true self and take your seat at his eternal feast.”

Made Self Lost Darkness One Day Eternal Crosses Seats True Self Lost You

Author:Timothy Keller

“Realisation is our nature. It is nothing new to be gained. What is new cannot be eternal. Therefore there is no need for doubting if one would lose or gain the Self.”

Needs Self Loses Doubt Eternal Yoga Gains Realization True Nature Nothing New

Author:Ramana Maharshi

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