Best pure & self Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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

“Whatever a man loves he inevitably clings to, and in order not to lose it he rejects everything that keeps him from it. So he who loves God cultivates pure prayer, driving out every passion that keeps him from it. He who drives out self-love, the mother of the passions, will with God's help easily rid himself of the rest, such as anger, irritation, rancor and so on. But he who is dominated by self-love is overpowered by the other passions, even against his will. Self-love is the passion of attachment to the body.”

Men Self Helping Body Mother Order Passion Loses Prayer Love Is Self Love Pure Driving God Love Rejects Attachment Irritation Rancor

Author:Maximus the Confessor

“What led me to my science and what fascinated me from a young age was the, by no means self-evident, fact that our laws of thought agree with the regularities found in the succession of impressions we receive from the external world, that it is thus possible for the human being to gain enlightenment regarding these regularities by means of pure thought”

World Humans Mean Self Facts Age Law Young Science Found Human Beings Pure Enlightenment Gains Agree Impression Fascinated Evident Young Age Succession Scientific Method Regularity

Author:Max Planck

“Enlightenment is the culmination of self-knowledge, pure unadulterated knowledge. Not knowledge you can get from reading a book, it comes from perfecting your awareness, your mind.”

Mind Book Self Reading Awareness Pure Enlightenment Self Knowledge Culmination

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When I look back on my life nowadays, which I sometimes do, what strikes me most forcibly about it is that what seemed at the time most significant and seductive, seems now most futile and absurd. For instance, success in all of its various guises; being known and being praised; ostensible pleasures, like acquiring money or seducing women, or traveling, going to and fro in the world and up and down in it like Satan, exploring and experiencing whatever Vanity Fair has to offer. In retrospect all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called “licking the earth.”

“Solitude is a courageous encounter with our naked, most raw and real self, in the presence of pure love.”

Real Self Pure Solitude Naked Encounters Courageous Pure Love Real Self

Author:Richard Rohr

“Philosophers are not honest enough in their work, although they make a lot of virtuous noise when the problem of truthfulness is touched even remotely. They all pose as if they had discovered and reached their real opinions through the self-development of a cold, pure, divinely unconcerned dialectic...; while at bottom it is an assumption, a hunch, indeed a kind of "inspiration" most often a desire of the heart that has been filtered and made abstract that they defend with reasons they have sought after the fact.”

“Work that is pure toil, done solely for the sake of the money it earns, is also sheer drudgery because it is stultifying rather than self improving.”

Self Done Work Pure Sake Sheer Improving Toil Drudgery

Book:Vision of the Future: Twelve Ideas for a Better Life and a Better Society

Source: Vision of the Future: Twelve Ideas for a Better Life and a Better Society

“In their pure form, the martial arts demand the intense awareness of the meditative mind, and have nothing to do with anger or wanton aggression. A practitioner is taught from the outset that the skills must never be used for personal gain, but only in self-defence or in the protection of others -- and even then only enough force as is absolutely necessary should be used.”

Should Mind Art Self Enough Form Used Force Awareness Taught Pure Skills Demand Gains Protection Intense Martial Arts Aggression Defence Wanton Self Defence Personal Gain

Author:David Fontana

“Pure love removes all negative feelings. Destroying all selfishness, it expects nothing but gives anything. Pure love is a constant giving up- giving up of everything that belongs to you. What really belongs to you? Only the ego. Love consumes in its flames all preconceived ideas, prejudices and judgments, all those things which stem from the ego. Pure love is nothing but the emptying of the mind of all its fears and the tearing off of all masks. It exposes the Self as it is.”

Source: Awaken Children Vol. 4

“Nature I believe in. True art aims to, represent men and women, not as my little self would have them, but as they appear. My heroes and heroines I want not extreme types, all good or all bad; but human, mortal--partly good, partly bad. Realism I need. Pure mental abstractions have no significance for me.”

“Boston - wrinkled, spindly-legged, depleted of nearly all her spiritual and cutaneous oils, provincial, self-esteeming - has gone on spending and spending her inflated bills of pure reputation, decade after decade.”

Self Spiritual Cities Gone Pure Bills Spending Oil Decades Reputation Boston

Book:A View of My Own: Essays on Literature and Society

Source: A View of My Own: Essays on Literature and Society

“This it is that gives a majesty so pure and touching to the historic figure of Christ; self-abandonment to God, uttermost surrender, without reserve or stipulation, to the guidance of the Holy Spirit from the Soul of souls; pause in no darkness; hesitation in no perplexity, recoil in no extremity of anguish, but a gentle unfaltering hold of the invisible Hand, of the Only Holy and All Good--these are the features that have made Jesus of Nazareth the dearest and most sacred image to the heart of so many ages.”

Source: A Martineau year book: Extracts from sermons

“Poets, if they're genuine, must keep repeating "I don't know." Each poem marks an effort to answer this statement, but as soon as the final period hits the page, the poet begins to hesitate, starts to realize that this particular answer was pure makeshift that's absolutely inadequate to boot. So the poets keep on trying, and sooner or later the consecutive results of their self-dissatisfaction are clipped together with a giant paperclip by literary historians and called their oeuvre.”

“For your self to become pure, give everything to what is already pure in you.”

Giving Self Pure

Author:John de Ruiter

“The normal self is the mind. The mind is with limitations. But pure Consciousness is beyond limitations, and is reached by investigation into the "I."”

Mind Self Consciousness Pure Normal Limitation Investigation

Book:Be As You Are: The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi

Source: Be As You Are: The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi

“The world cannot hold onto you, for the world is not sentient. The world doesn't have a mind nor does it have desires; it is only your mind's objectivisation. It is your own mind's play which imagines that an object-call it the mind or whatever-can hold onto you. It is the idea you have of who you are that is holding onto its own fearful projections as the mind. Leave all of this and remain as the pure, joyous Self.”

World Mind Doe Ideas Self Play Desire Imagine Objects Pure Who You Are Fearful Imagine That Holding On Projection Joyous

Author:Mooji

“I would define morality as enlightened self-interest...That old Platonic ideal that there are certain pure moral forms just isn't where we are.”

Self Form Certain Interest Moral Morality Pure Ideals Manners Enlightened Self Interest Platonic

Author:Andrew Young

“These humans are only of flesh, of mud, and I suggest there is one force stronger than their zeal for God: their own self-righteousness! We will make them proud, pure in their own eyes, vindictive, unjust judges over each other, and stir up such a noise among them that the simplest prayer will not be uttered!”

Humans Self Eye Force Prayer Judging Proud Pure Stronger Flesh Noise Righteousness Unjust Mud Simplest Zeal Self Righteousness Vindictive

Book:Piercing the Darkness: A Novel

Source: Piercing the Darkness: A Novel

“I have come to realize that in every person there is something fine and pure and noble, along with a desire for self-fulfillment.”

Persons Self Desire Realizing Human Nature Fine Pure Noble Fulfillment Purity Nobility Self Fulfillment

Book:I'll Never Lie to You

Source: I'll Never Lie to You

“When the mind is quiet, we come to know ourselves as the pure witness. We withdraw from the experience and its experiencer and stand apart in pure awareness, which is between and beyond the two. The personality, based on self-identification, on imagining itself to be something: 'I am this, I am that', continues, but only as a part of the objective world. Its identification with the witness snaps.”

Knows World Mind Two Self Awareness Personality Pure Quiet Objectives Witness Snaps Identification

Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Is self-interest a bad thing? We want our leaders to be pure and good, but at the same time we want them to be effective, and to be effective you often have to be ruthless and not bound by ideology or the same morals that we pretend to hold ourselves to.”

Want Self Interest Leader Moral Pure Bounds Ideology Bad Things Self Interest Ruthless

Author:Beau Willimon

“The first law that ever God gave to man was a law of pure obedience; it was a commandment naked and simple, wherein man had nothing to inquire after, or to dispute, forasmuch as to obey is the proper office of a rational soul, acknowledging a heavenly superior and benefactor. From obedience and submission spring all other virtues, as all sin does from self-opinion.”

Men Firsts Doe Soul Self Law Sin Simple Opinion Virtue Pure Office Spring Superiors Naked Rational Obedience Heavenly Commandments Submission Disputes Benefactors Self Opinion

Book:Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays

Source: Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays

“Thinking is hard. Making value judgments is difficult. It places you at pure creation, because there are so many times you'll have to say, "I don't know. I just don't know." Yet still you'll have to decide. And so you'll have to choose. You'll have to make an arbitrary choice. Such a choice - a decision coming from no previous personal knowledge - is called pure creation. And the individual is aware, deeply aware, that in the making of such decisions is the Self created.”

Thinking Knows Inspirational Stills Self Hard Values Choices Individual Difficult Religious Decision Creation Pure Judgment Arbitrary Personal Knowledge

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“My God, grant that my bounty may be a clear and transparent river, flowing from pure charity, and uncontaminated by self-love, ambition, or interest. Thanks are due not to me, but Thee, from whom all I possess is derived. And what are the paltry gifts for which my neighbor forgets to thank me, compared with the immense blessings for which I have so often forgotten to be grateful to Thee!”

“In the early nineteenth century, the doctrine of self-sufficiency came to apply to families as well as individuals.... The familybecame a special protected place, the repository of tender, pure, and generous feelings (embodied by the mother) and a bulwark and bastion against the raw, competitive, aggressive, and selfish world of commerce (embodied by the father).... In performing this protective task, the good family was to be as self-sufficient as the good man.”

“A resolute and wise refusal to take part in festivities will be an incentive for introspection and self-purification.”

Self Wise Pure Purity Introspection Incentives Refusal Resolute Purification Festivities

Book:Communal Unity

Source: Communal Unity

“"You are pure and perfect, and what you call sin does not belong to you". Sins are low degrees of Self-manifestation; manifest your Self in a high degree.”

Doe Self Sin Perfect Strength Pure Degrees Lows Manifestation Manifest

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“Pay attention to your self outside the realm of your experiences and you'll discover that there is a light there, there is a love there. Love of one, love of all, merge into love, pure and simple. It radiates from you like light from the sun.”

Self Light Simple Pay Attention Sun Pure Pay Attention Realms One Love

Author:Deepak Chopra

“We have to learn to stand up for our interests. To seek purity is self-defeating and a stereotype in itself: women have to be pure, women are not concerned about money.”

Self Interest Pure Concerned Purity Stereotype

Author:Gloria Steinem

“If the suns come down, and the moons crumble into dust, and systems after systems are hurled into annihilation, what is that to you? Stand as a rock; you are indestructible. You are the Self, the God of the universe. Say - "I am Existence Absolute, Bliss Absolute, Knowledge Absolute, I am He," and like a lion breaking its cage, break your chain and be free forever. What frightens you, what holds you down? Only ignorance and delusion; nothing else can bind you. You are the Pure One, the Ever-blessed.”

Ifs Self Motivational Universe Existence Break Sun Forever Rocks Ignorance Pure Moon Absolutes Down And Blessed Dust Chains Bliss Delusion Lions Cages Annihilation Indestructible

Book:Jnana Yoga

Source: Jnana Yoga

“The pure mystic wishes to approach his God only in the all-embracing love. The yogi, too, walks toward one single aspect of God. The bhakti-yogi keeps to the road of love and devotion, the raja and hatha yogi choose the path of self-control or volition, the jnana yogi will follow that of wisdom and cognition.”

Self Wish Walks Path Magic Pure Approach Aspect Devotion Mysticism Self Control Mystic Cognition Yogi Volition Bhakti Embracing Love

Author:Franz Bardon

“A pure mind in a chaste body is the mother of wisdom and deliberation; sober counsels and ingenuous actions; open deportment and sweet carriage; sincere principles and unprejudiced understanding; love of God and self-denial; peace and confidence; hol”

Mind Self Body Action Mother Understanding Principles Sweet Pure Denial God Love Sincere Sober Sweet Love Carriages Chaste Self-denial Deliberation Understanding Love

Author:Jeremy Taylor

“Purge me from every sinful blot; My idols all be cast aside: Cleanse me from every evil thought, From all the filth of self and pride. The hatred of the carnal mind Out of my flesh at once remove: Give me a tender heart, resigned, And pure, and full of faith and love.”

Giving Mind Heart Self Evil Pride Pure Hatred And Love Give Me Casts Flesh Remove Idols Filth Resigned Evil Thoughts Faith And Love Tender Hearts

Book:The Works of the Rev. John Wesley

Source: The Works of the Rev. John Wesley

“Zeal is that pure and heavenly flame,The fire of love supplies ;While that which often bears the name,Is self in a disguise.True zeal is merciful and mild,Can pity and forbear ;The false is headstrong, fierce and wild,And breathes revenge and war.”

War Self Names Fire Bears Pure Revenge Breathe Pity Flames Heavenly Fierce Disguise Zeal Merciful Supplies Headstrong Fire Of Love

Book:Olney hymns: in three books

Source: Olney hymns: in three books

“Work is an almost pure expression of the self.”

Self Expression Pure

Author:Chase Twichell

“I think you may judge of a man’s character by the persons whose affection he seeks. If you find a man seeking only the affection of those who are great, depend upon it he is ambitious and self-seeking; but when you observe that a man seeks the affection of those who can do nothing for him, but for whom he must do everything, you know that he is not seeking himself, but that pure benevolence sways his heart.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Men Heart May Persons Self Character Can Do Judging Depends Pure Affection Seeking Ambitious Benevolence

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“Honesty comes only with sound health, physically and psychologically, and an honest mind cannot be separated from the most genuine acknowledgment of expression. It should be recognized that pure perfection is unobtainable. Therefore, the realization that one's irrevocable faults and deficiencies must be faced guides us toward the first step of learning. We must each accept any situation as it actually is, with dignity. In that fine balance of acceptance of self and the mission to better oneself, compassion, humility, and discipline are nurtured.”

“When we persist in looking for and finding what there is to value within our self, we discover a pure and loving being.”

Self Values Pure Findings Persist

Author:Hugh Prather

“Space seems broken and diverse because of the many forms in it. Remove the forms and pure space remains. So, too with the Omnipresent Self.”

Self Seems Form Space Broken Pure Remains Remove Diverse

Author:Adi Shankara

“Your love should be so far reaching, earnest, biblical, Christ-centered, pure, and self-sacrificing that the world may hate you for it.”

World Should May Self Hate Christ Sacrifice Pure Reaching Biblical Hate You Earnest

Author:Kevin DeYoung

“The single most outwardly identifiable trait demonstrated by a winning human being is that of positive self-expectation- which is pure and simple optimism.”

Humans Self Winning Human Beings Simple Pure Expectations Optimism Traits Positive Self

Author:Denis Waitley

“Bless people when they revile you. Think how much good they are doing by helping to stamp out the false ego. Hold fast to the real Self. Think only pure thoughts, and you will accomplish more than a regiment of mere preachers. Out of purity and silence comes the word of power.”

People Thinking Real Self Helping Silence Pure Ego Mere Words Accomplish Purity Bless Preacher Power Of Words Stamps Insulting Real Self Hold Fast Silence Is Golden Blessing To Others

Author:Swami Vivekananda

“The experience of not forgetting consciousness alone is the state of devotion which is the relationship of unfading real love, because the real knowledge of Self, which shines as the undivided supreme bliss itself, surges up as the nature of love. Love itself is the actual form of God. That is pure bliss. Call it pure bliss, God, Self, or what you will. That is devotion, that is realization and that is everything.”

Real Self States Form Forget Love Is Consciousness Pure Shining Supreme Devotion Realization Bliss Real Love Self Knowledge Real Knowledge Pure Bliss

Author:Ramana Maharshi

“It is attachment to creatures and to self-satisfaction that weakens the blessings of love in your heart. You must die to all that, if you wish the pure love of God to reign therein.”

Ifs Heart Self Dies Wish Blessing Pure Creatures Satisfaction God Love Attachment Reign Pure Love Self-satisfaction

Author:Margaret Mary Alacoque

“By oneself the evil is done, and it is oneself who suffers: by oneself the evil is not done, and by one's Self one becomes pure.”

Self Done Suffering Evil Pure Oneself

Author:Gautama Buddha

“The anti-equality right wing has interests. We have to learn to stand up for our interests. To seek purity is self-defeating and a stereotype in itself: women have to be pure, women are not concerned about money.”

Self Interest Pure Concerned Wings Purity Stereotype Right Wing

Author:Gloria Steinem

“Develop Self-confidence, then love will follow; it will come naturally from within. And that way the love will be pure.”

Way Self Pure Lows Self Confidence

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“…Even the idea of a city never entered his mind. It was as if he had walked under the millimeter of haze just above the inked fibers of a map, that pure zone between land and chart, between distances and legends, between nature and storyteller. The place they had chosen to come to, to be their best selves, to be unconscious of ancestry. Here, apart from the sun compass and the odometer mileage, and the book, he was alone, his own invention. He knew during these times how the mirage worked, the fata morgana, for he was within it.”

Ifs Mind Book Ideas Self Cities Sun Land Pure Distance Invention Chosen Unconscious Zone Maps Legends Storyteller Compass Ancestry Fiber Best Self Mirages Haze Mileage Morgana

Author:Michael Ondaatje

“To be changed by ideas was pure pleasure. But to learn ideas that ran counter to values and beliefs learned at home was to place oneself at risk, to enter the danger zone. Home was the place where I was forced to conform to someone else’s image of who and what I should be. School was the place where I could forget that self and, through ideas, reinvent myself.”

Should Ideas Self Home School Values Belief Forget Pleasure Risk Danger Changed Pure Oneself Ran Zone Conform

Author:Bell Hooks

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