Best infinite & self Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Religion, like poetry, is not a mere idea, it is expression. The self-expression of God is in the endless variety of creation; and our attitude toward the Infinite Being must also in its expression have a variety of individuality ceaseless and unendi.”

Ideas Self Religion Attitude Creation Expression Infinite Mere Individuality Endless Variety Poetry Is Self Expression

Book:Tagore

Source: Tagore

“The trap of the self is the trap that causes unhappiness. We define ourselves too much; whereas the infinite, the pure radiant spirit, is not so definable.”

Inspirational Self Spirit Causes Too Much Buddhism Pure Infinite Unhappiness Traps Radiant

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Meditation is coming back to your original self, if we can use self without a sense of self. It's perfect, clear light, radiant, infinite mind of the universe, as it is, without identifying with qualities”

Ifs Mind Self Use Light Universe Perfect Quality Clear Meditation Buddhism Infinite Originals Coming Back Sense Of Self Radiant Identifying

Author:Frederick Lenz

“This solidity is not true. The apparent solidity is the delusion of the senses and of the self. Everything is made up of infinite, intelligent light.”

Made Self Light Ignorance Intelligent Infinite Senses Delusion Mysticism Solidity

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The burden you are carrying around is the burden of self. You seek release from that. You want to let it all go. You want to forget who you are and what you are. You wish to be the whole universe, infinite, endless.”

Want Self Whole Universe Wish Forget Ignorance Infinite Who You Are Burden Endless Release

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

“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

“Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction. A human being may be clinically alive and yet, despite all appearances, spiritually dead.”

Men Humans May Self Human Beings Alive Development Men And Women Capacity Destruction Infinite Appearance Despite Self Development Self Destruction

Author:Idries Shah

“[Some] people really expect the passion of love to fill and gratify every need of life, whereas nature only intended that it should meet one of many demands. They insist on making it stand for all the emotional pleasures of life and art; expecting an individual and self-limited passion to yield infinite variety, pleasure, and distraction, and to contribute to their lives what the arts and the pleasurable exercise of the intellect gives to less limited and less intense idealists.”

Source: The Essential Willa Cather Collection

“God must have been engaged from the beginning, and must now be engaged in progressive development, and infinite as God is, he must have been less powerful in the past than he is today.... We may be certain that, through self-effort, the inherent and innate powers of God have been developed to a God-like degree. Thus he has become God.”

May Has Beens Self Today Past Certain Powerful Effort Development Degrees Infinite Engaged Progressive Inherent Innate Power Of God

Author:John Andreas Widtsoe

“Dive deep into the chambers of your heart. Find out the real, infinite 'I'. Rest there peacefully for ever and become identical with the Supreme Self.”

Heart Real Self Infinite Supreme Chamber Identical

Author:Ramana Maharshi

“Only one deception is possible in the infinite sense, self-deception.”

Self Infinite Deception Self Deception

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“Although the sovereignty of God is universal and absolute, it is not the sovereignty of blind power. It is coupled with infinite wisdom, holiness and love. And this doctrine, when properly understood, is a most comforting and reassuring one. Who would not prefer to have his affairs in the hands of a God of infinite power, wisdom, holiness and love, rather than to have them left to fate, or chance, or irrevocable natural law, or to short-sighted and perverted self? Those who reject God's sovereignty should consider what alternatives they have left.”

Source: The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination [Fifth Edition]

“Self-confidence is a must for a fulfilled life. If you have a divine self-confidence, you know how fortunate you are. Study yourself, you have awareness and infinite power within you. choose to build an image in your marvelous mind of what you want to do. Happiness, health and prosperity will be your rewards.”

“The human mind has an infinite capacity for self-deception.”

Mind Humans Self Capacity Infinite Deception Human Mind Self Deception

Author:Gertrude Atherton

“That there is a continuous link from humans to gorillas, with the intermediate species merely long dead, is beyond the understanding of speciesists. Tie the label Homo sapiens even to a tiny piece of insensible embryonic tissue, and its life suddenly leaps to infinite, incomputable value.... Self-styled pro-lifers, and others that indulge in footling debates about exactly when in its development a foetus becomes human, exhibit the same discontinuous mentality. Human, to the discontinuous mind, is an absolutist concept. There can be no half measures. And from this flows much evil.”

“[The human mind] finds more facility in assenting to the self-existence of an invisible cause possessing infinite power, wisdom, and goodness, than in the self-existence of the universe, visibly destitute of these attributes, and which may be the effect of them.”

Mind Humans May Self Religion Universe Causes Existence Effects Goodness Infinite Invisible Human Mind Attributes Facility Possessing Destitute Infinite Power

Author:James Madison

“The basis of successful relief in national distress is to mobilize and organize the infinite number of agencies of self help in the community. That has been the American way.”

Way Has Beens Self Helping Community Numbers Successful Self Help Bases Infinite Agency Relief Distress Organize

Book:Memoirs: The great depression, 1929-1941

Source: Memoirs: The great depression, 1929-1941

“The notion of the infinite expanse and copiousness of the cosmos is the result of the mixture, carried to the extreme limit, of laborious creation and free self-determination.”

Self Results Creation Limits Determination Infinite Notion Extremes Cosmos Self Determination Mixtures Expanse

Book:The Blue Octavo Notebooks

Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks

“Rational thinking which is free from assumptions ends therefore in mysticism. To relate oneself in the spirit of reverence for life to the multiform manifestations of the will-to-live which together constitute the world is ethical mysticism. All profound world-view is mysticism, the essence of which is just this: that out of my unsophisticated and naïve existence in the world there comes, as a result of thought about self and the world, spiritual self-devotion to the mysterious infinite Will which is continuously manifested in the universe.”

“The universe is deathless; Is deathless because, having no finite self, it stays infinite. A sound man by not advancing himself stays the further ahead of himself, By not confining himself to himself sustains himself outside himself: By never being an end in himself he endlessly becomes himself.”

Men Ends Self Universe Sound Infinite Finite Advancing Deathless

Author:Laozi

“The eye cannot see it; the mind cannot grasp it. The deathless Self (the Supreme Soul or God) has neither caste nor race, Neither eyes, nor ears, nor hands, nor feet, Sages, this Self is infinite, present in the great and in the small, Everlasting and changeless, the source of life.”

Mind Soul Self God Hands Eye Race Feet Source Ears Infinite Supreme Sage Everlasting Castes Source Of Life Deathless

Author:Eknath Easwaran

“It horribly skews the meaning of the cross when contemporary prophets of self-esteem say that the cross is a witness to my infinite worth. The biblical perspective is that the cross in a witness to the infinite worth of God's glory, and a witness to the immensity of the sin of my pride.”

Self Sin Self Esteem Perspective Pride Glory Crosses Infinite Humble Contemporary Esteem Witness Prophet Biblical Immensity

Book:The Supremacy of God in Preaching

Source: The Supremacy of God in Preaching

“We have an infinite capacity for self interest, yet the infinite has absolutely no interest in us”

Self Interest Capacity Infinite Self Interest

Author:Dean Cavanagh

“Those who have overcome self-will and become instruments to do God's work can accomplish tasks which are seemingly impossible, but they experience no feeling of self achievement. I now know myself to be a part of the infinite cosmos, not separate from other souls or God. My illusory self is dead; the real self controls the garment of clay and uses it for God's work.”

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.”

“The entire universe is just an expression, projection, of the Being, of the Self. Within this small body, you are able to experience the infinite space.”

Self Body Able Universe Space Expression Infinite Projection Infinite Space

Author:Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

“We humans, you see, have an infinite capacity for self-rationalization.”

Humans Self Capacity Infinite

Author:Charles Colson

“Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave. What you WANT is irrelevant, what you've CHOSEN is at hand. You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.”

Men Want Self Moments Hands Choices Understanding Existence Fields Possibility Machines Function Infinite Slave What You Want Access Chosen Makers Infinity Self Knowledge Irrelevant

Author:Deepak Chopra

“Do not become the candle that gives light to others but itself remains in darkness. Do not follow the desires of your lower self. Should the Lord wish, He himself will pick you out and prompt you to be a source of guidance. He Himself shall endow you with the inner strength to endure the changes of fortune and will instill within you infinite wisdom.”

Giving Should Self Light Desire Wish Lord Darkness Source Picks Infinite Remains Fortune Endure Guidance Inner Strength Candle Within You Prompts Instill

Author:Abdul-Qadir Gilani

“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

“Understand this great truth: The happiness that comes from the pleasures of the world is but a minute reflection of the infinite bliss that comes from within your own Self.”

World Self Pleasure Minutes Reflection Infinite Bliss

Author:Mata Amritanandamayi

“The point of the overall meditative path is to have Wakefulness (or Consciousness as Such) transcend and include all state-realms, so it ceases to "black out" or "forget" various changes of state (such as dreaming and deep sleep), and instead recognizes a "constant Consciousness" or ever-present nondual Awareness, the union (and transcendence) of individual finite self and infinite Spirit.”

Source: The Fourth Turning: Imagining the Evolution of an Integral Buddhism

“True ecstasy is stepping out of the bondage of the time-bound, space-bound world. We long to be free of fear and limitation. We hunger to experience our infinite, unbounded Self.”

World Long Self Space Infinite Bounds Hunger Limitation Ecstasy Bondage

Author:Deepak Chopra

“Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.”

Mean Self Spiritual Literature Existence Infinite Radiation Self Control Discipline And Self Control

Book:The Blue Octavo Notebooks

Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks

“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

“Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to be — or to be indistinguishable from — self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time.”

Years Self Turns Games Amount Internet Infinite Stranger Arguing Righteous Possessing Sixteen Sucker Free Time Self Righteous Sixteen Year Olds

Author:Neal Stephenson

“Nor do we merely feel these essences for one short hour no, even as these trees that whisper round a temple become soon dear as the temples self, so does the moon, the passion posey, glories infinite, Haunt us till they become a cheering light unto our souls and bound to us so fast, that wheather there be shine, or gloom o'er cast, They always must be with us, or we die.”

Feels Doe Soul Self Light Dies Passion Hours Tree Moon Glory Essence Infinite Shining Bounds Rounds Dear Casts Temples Cheer Gloom

Author:John Keats

“Work on your stony qualities and become resplendent like the ruby. Practice self-denial and accept difficulty. Always see infinite life in letting the self die. Your stoniness will decrease; your ruby nature will grow. The signs of self-existence will leave your body, and ecstasy will take you over.”

Self Body Spiritual Dies Strong Grows Existence Quality Accepting Practice Difficulty Infinite Your Body Denial Ecstasy Decrease Self-denial Rubies Your Strong Infinite Life

Author:Rumi

“We are all insane. That is what original sin means. Sin is insanity. It is preferring finite joy to infinite joy, creatures to the Creator, an unhappy, Godless self to a happy, God-filled self Only God can save us from this disease. That is what the name "Jesus" means: 'God saves'.”

Mean Self Joy Jesus Names Sin Creatures Disease Infinite Originals Filled Creator Unhappy Insane Insanity Finite Original Sin

Book:Prayer for Beginners

Source: Prayer for Beginners

“Strange, when one thinks of all the other boys, infinite experimental kisses, test tube infatuations, crushes, pseudo-loves. All through this physical separation, through the testing and the trying of the others, there has been this peculiar rapport, comradeship, of us two so alike, so similar, but for science-boy and humanities-girl - the introspection, self examination, biannual deep summarizing conversations, and then the platonic parting.”

“Today I want to belong. I want to feel safe and at home. I want to be aware of what it is like simply to be, without defenses or desires. I will appreciate the flow of life for what it is-my own true self. I will notice those moments of intimacy with myself, when I feel that “I am” is enough to sustain me forever. I will lie on the grass at one with nature, expanding until my being fades into the infinite.”

Want Feels Self Enough Moments Home Today Spiritual Lying Desire My Own Forever Safe Appreciate Flow Infinite Defense Intimacy Grass Fades True Self Expanding One With Nature

Author:Deepak Chopra

“Words bend our thinking to infinite paths of self-delusion, and the fact that we spend most of our mental lives in brain mansions built of words means that we lack the objectivity necessary to see the terrible distortion of reality which language brings.”

Thinking Mean Self Facts Reality Language Brain Path Terrible Built Infinite Delusion Objectivity Distortion Mansions Self Delusion

Book:The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion

Source: The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion

“An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy... If I try self-consciously to become a person, I will never be one. The most real people, those who are able to forget their selfish selves, who have true compassion, are usually the most distinct individuals”

People Ifs Giving Trying Persons Real Self Able Joy Individual Answers Forget Compassion Laughter Infinite Selfish Destroyed Finite Laughter And Joy

Author:Madeleine L'Engle

“...Erich Fromm wondered why most people did not become insane in the face of the existential contradiction between a symbolic self, that seems to give man infinite worth in a timeless scheme of things, and a body that is worth about 98¢.”

People Men Giving Self Body Seems Faces Infinite Insane Contradiction Schemes Existential Timeless Symbolic Fromm

Author:Ernest Becker

“Our everyday self is a narrow construct...Our total self is far broader, ultimately infinite. Actors who seem to be playing themselves are actually playing roles they have become so skillful at that they seem pure and natural...Much bad Acting is the result of being too close to the Actor's everyday self, confining him in its rigid mold.”

Self Seems Actors Natural Results Acting Roles Pure Infinite Everyday Constructs Mold Skillful Bad Acting Playing Roles

Author:Richard Hornby

“Our self (Soul) is maya (an illusion) where it is merely individual and finite, where it considers its separateness as absolute; it is satyam (truth) where it recognizes its essence in the universal and infinite, in the Supreme Self, in paramatman (God). This is what Christ means when he says, "Before Abraham was, I am" (i.e. before Abraham was God, who is the same that is in my soul - I am That.)”

Mean Soul Self God Spirituality Individual Christ Illusion Essence Universal Absolutes Infinite Supreme My Soul Finite Abraham Separateness

Author:Rabindranath Tagore

“Our self (Soul), as a form of God's joy, is deathless. For his joy is amritham, eternal bliss. We know that the life of a Soul, which is finite in its expression and infinite in its principle, must go through the portals of death in its journey to realize the infinite.”

Knows Soul Self God Form Joy Spirituality Realizing Principles Journey Expression Eternal Infinite Bliss Finite Portal Deathless

Author:Rabindranath Tagore

“Dogmatic religion has been used to fantastic effect over thousands of years to fuel and exploit emotions like fear and guilt, and the feeling of being 'unworthy'. This has encouraged people to hand over their right to think and feel to a Bible and a priest because they have not had the confidence or self-belief to realize that they have a right, and an infinite gift, to make their own decisions”

Source: --and the Truth Shall Set You Free

“The development of our spiritual nature should concern us most. Spirituality is the highest acquisition of the soul, the divine in man; 'the supreme, crowning gift that makes him king of all created things.' It is the consciousness of victory over self and of communion with the infinite. It is spirituality alone which really gives one the best in life.”

Men Giving Should Soul Self Spiritual Spirituality Consciousness Divine Development Kings Victory Highest Concern Infinite Supreme Communion Acquisition Spiritual Nature

Author:David O. McKay

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