Best realizing & self Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Every decade of my life I attempted to write a novel. But I had nothing to say. I was far too self-absorbed, and now I realize I was writing for others, so that they'd applaud me, see my genius, tell me how wonderful I am, or be jealous of my success.”

Writing Self Realizing Novel Wonderful Genius Decades Jealous Self Absorbed Being Jealous

Author:Louise Penny

“Self-realization is a strange term. You don't actually realize your 'self'. If anything, you go away. The caterpillar enters the cocoon of meditation: A butterfly emerges - metamorphosis.”

Ifs Self Term Realizing Meditation Strange Self Realization Realization Going Away Hinduism Butterfly Metamorphosis Caterpillars Cocoons

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I like solitude. It is when you truly hear and speak your natural, unadulterated mind, and out comes your most stupid self as well as your most intelligent self. It is when you realize who you are and the extents of the good and the evils which you are capable of”

Mind Wells Self Evil Speak Realizing Natural Stupid Solitude Capable Intelligent Who You Are

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“The chief burden of the frustrated is the consciousness of a blemished, ineffectual self, and their chief desire is to slough off the unwanted self and begin a new life. They try to realize this desire either by finding a new identity or by blurring and camouflaging their individual distinctness; and both these ends are reached by imitation.”

Trying Ends Self Desire Individual Realizing Consciousness Identity Findings Burden Chiefs Frustrated Imitation New Life Unwanted Slough

Book:THE TRUE BELIEVER

Source: THE TRUE BELIEVER

“Your life is the one place you have to spend yourself fully--wild, generous, drastic--in an unrationed profligacy of self ... And in that split second when you understand that you finally are about to die-to uncreate the world no time to do it over no more chances--that instant when you realize your conscious existence is truly flaring nova, won't you want to have used up all-all-the splendor that you are?”

World Want Self Life Is Used Dies Realizing Chance Existence Conscious Generous Instant Splits Splendor Drastic Novas

Author:Robin Morgan

“And the more you become aware of the unknown self - if you become aware of it - the more you realize that it is inseparably connected with everything else that is.”

Ifs Self Realizing Connected

Book:The Tao of Philosophy

Source: The Tao of Philosophy

“It's important to realize that inquiry is about noticing, not about dropping the thought... Inquiry is not about getting rid of thoughts; it's about realizing what's true for you, through awareness and unconditional self-love. Once you see the truth, the thought lets go of you, not the other way around.”

Way Love Important Self Truth Realizing Awareness Self Love Letting Go Inquiry Unconditional Dropping Noticing Truth Love

Author:Byron Katie

“The highest state of meditation is Samadhi, where there is no ego anymore, no doubts, no me, no you, no notion of time, no eating, no talking, no walking, no working and not doing anything at all, realizing that the Self is action-less.”

Self States Action Realizing Talking Doubt Meditation Walking Ego Eating Highest Notion No Doubt Samadhi

Author:Dharma Mittra

“I trust that you will so live today as to realize that you are masters of your own destiny, masters of your fate; if there is anything you want in this world, it is for you to strike out with confidence and faith in self and reach for it.”

Ifs World Want Self Today Realizing Destiny Fate This World Masters Strikes Live For Today

Book:Selected Writings and Speeches of Marcus Garvey

Source: Selected Writings and Speeches of Marcus Garvey

“If you hate yourself and your desires, well, you know, God is your desires and God is your self. As long as you hate God, you'll never realize God.”

Ifs Knows Wells Long Self God Desire Hate Realizing Hate You Knowing God Hate God

Author:Frederick Lenz

“To talk about realizing the Self is discontinuous because there is nothing to realize but the Self. There is nothing but realization.”

Self Realizing Yoga Realization

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There is no one to realize the Self.”

Self Realizing Yoga

Author:Frederick Lenz

“To realize the Self involves an action, it implies that there is something to realize, that there is time, a temporal world, and that Self is not yet realized, but will be realized by the actor through action.”

World Self Action Actors Realizing Yoga

Author:Frederick Lenz

“How do we find a way out? By realizing that there's no place to go, that there's no way out, that there's no way in. All that exists is the Self.”

Way Self Realizing Yoga Places To Go

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The way you become happy is by realizing that there is no self. No self at all, not a silly millimeter of self. You don't exist. When you know this, you will be happy.”

Knows Way Self Realizing Silly Nothingness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“A truly wise person will constantly move forward, striving for self-improvement, knowing that daily repentance is needed for progress. He will realize the good life is simply conforming to a standard of right and justice. The joys of happiness can only be realized by living lofty principles.”

“SELF-DISCIPLINE, more than any other personal quality I can think of, is the one thing that separates successful people from the unsuccessful. Think of all it encompasses: honoring commitments, promises and deadlines, keeping your life on schedule, being willing to go the extra mile... Self-discipline is essential to success. The alternative is a life ruled by emotions, and none of us can afford that if we're going to fulfill our purpose and realize our potential.”

“I'm thinking of writing a children's story about a leaf on a tree who arrogantly insists he's a self-made, independent leaf. Then one day a fierce wind blows him off his branch and to the ground below. As his life slowly ebbs away, he looks up at the magnificent old tree that had been his home and realizes that he had never been on his own. His entire life he had been part of something bigger and more beautiful than anything he could have imagined. In a blinding flash, he awakens from the delusion of self. Then an arrogant, self-centered kid rakes him up and bags him.”

“If we continue to think and live as if we belong only to different cultures and different religions, with separate missions and goals, we will always be in self-defeating competition with each other. Once we realize we are all members of humanity, we will want to compete in the spirit of love.”

Ifs Thinking Want Different Self Spirit Humanity Culture Goal Realizing Members Competition Missions Different Cultures Different Religions

Book:The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey

Source: The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey

“When the bubble of ignorance bursts the self realizes its oneness with the indivisible Self. Words that proceed from the Source of Truth have real meaning. But when men speakthese words as their own, the words become meaningless.”

Men Real Self Realizing Ignorance Source Oneness Meaningless Bubbles Indivisible

Author:Meher Baba

“There is in even the most selfish passion a large element of self-abnegation. It is startling to realize that what we call extreme self-seeking is actually self-renunciation. The miser, health addict, glory chaser and their like are not far behind the selfless in the exercise of self-sacrifice.”

Self Passion Realizing Behinds Sacrifice Exercise Elements Glory Seeking Extremes Selfish Selfless Addict Self Sacrifice Renunciation Misers Abnegation Chasers

Book:The Passionate State of Mind

Source: The Passionate State of Mind

“If the goal is to realize the Supreme Being, you should become egoless. That requires self-effort. The sadhak should work hard. He should pray sincerely for the removal of the negative tendencies. This prayer is not to achieve anything or to fulfill any desires. It is to go beyond all achievements. It is to transcend all desires.”

Ifs Should Self Hard Desire Goal Realizing Prayer Effort Achieve Hard Work Praying Achievement Negative Excellence Supreme Tendencies Sincerely Removal Supreme Being

Author:Mata Amritanandamayi

“Over the years of much self-hate, I came to realize that whether sexuality was in my life or not, it didn't seem to matter. I just surrendered the whole thing to God.”

Years Self Matter Whole Seems Hate Realizing Sexuality Rama Self Hate

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When are you people going to learn? It's not about who's right or wrong. No denomination's nailed it yet, because they're all too self-righteous to realize that it doesn't matter what you have faith in, just that you have faith. Your hearts are in the right place, but your brains need to wake up. I have issues with anyone who treats faith as a burden instead of a blessing. You people don't celebrate your faith; you mourn it.”

People Needs Heart Self Matter Realizing Brain Issues Blessing Treats Wake Up Burden Celebrate Have Faith Righteous Dogma Mourn Right Place Self Righteous Denominations Blessing You

Author:Kevin Smith

“According to the true Indian view, our consciousness of the world, merely as the sum total of things that exist, and as governed by laws, is imperfect. But it is perfect when our consciousness realizes all things as spiritually one with it, and therefore capable of giving us joy. For us the highest purpose of this world is not merely living in it, knowing it and making use of it, but realizing our own selves in it through expansion of sympathy; not alienating ourselves from it and dominating it, but comprehending and uniting it with ourselves in perfect union.”

“Awakenings are always terrifying as they force you to realize your past has been lived in confinement, the most disturbing part is when you recognize that the shackle holding you down are largely once you have placed upon yourself, the prison is self constructed”

Has Beens Self Past Force Realizing Prison Awakening Our Past Disturbing Your Past Shackles Confinement

Author:Dean Karnazes

“An uplifting, fat-tastic voyage to self-love, Read My Hips made me realize that I no longer need to be weighed down by constantly judging my body. I devoured this book-it's deliciously inspiring!”

Needs Made Book Self Body Realizing Judging Self Love Fats Uplifting Hips Voyages

Author:Hillary Carlip

“Once more I realize that solitude is my element, and the reason is that extreme awareness of other people (all naturally solitary people must feel this) precludes awareness of one's self, so after a while the self no longer knows that it exists.”

People Knows Feels Self Reason Realizing Awareness Solitude Elements Extremes Solitary Sociability Awareness Of Others

Book:At Seventy: A Journal

Source: At Seventy: A Journal

“I never realized how much I've become dependent on human approval until God took it away. I didn't even realize that I was in a self-made prison of human approval and human acceptance. Most of the prisons we live in we are not conscious of. God showed me Jesus plus nothing equals everything. And everything minus Jesus equals nothing. That set me free.”

Humans Made Self Jesus Realizing Acceptance Conscious Prison Dependent Plus Approval Self Made Minus

Author:Tullian Tchividjian

“You have to realize there is nothing more you can do to convince someone you love to turn their life around. You simply have to say, "Look. I love you, but I cannot stand by and watch you kill yourself slowly. When you want help I'm here. Until then, goodbye." That may sound cruel, but self-preservation is paramount to helping someone else. If you're a wreck, you're useless to them, anyway. And if they refuse help, despite knowing the likely outcome, they will head down that path anyway.”

“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.”

“I had a moment when I first got on Supernatural when I was like, omg, people are paying attention to me and I have fans, maybe I should cultivate an image and like try to seem really cool. I had this sort of moment of being commercially self conscious, and it took me maybe a month to realize, no, this is just not fucking who I am... Here's a picture of me in drag, fuck it - which is, by the way, so much more liberating and relaxing... There's not a more surefire way to give a stifled boring empty vapid meaningless piece of interview. Everything that comes out of your mouth sucks if you're trying to say the right thing...”

“We go into a relationship looking for love, not realizing that we must bring love with us. We must bring a strong sense of self and purpose into a relationship. We must bring a sense of value, of who we are. We must bring an excitement about ourselves, our lives, and the vision we have for these two essential elements. We must bring a respect for wealth and abundance. Having achieved it to some satisfactory degree on our own, we must move into relationships willing to share what we have, rather than being afraid of someone taking it.”

“Neither the good nor the true is self-realizing, so it is not generally a sufficient explanation of why people believe that X is true, or of why people do Y that Y is good.”

People Believe Self Realizing Explanation Sufficient

Author:Raymond Geuss

“People never realize how much work impacts there self esteem and sense of purpose until they leave a job.”

People Self Jobs Purpose Realizing Self Esteem Impact Esteem

Author:Rob Payne

“By marrying to soon, many individuals sacrifice their chance to struggle through this purgatory of solitude and search toward a greater sense of self-confidence. They glance at the world outside the family and with hardly a second thought grasp anxiously for a partner. In marriage they seek a substitute for the security of the family of origin and an escape from aloneness. What they do not realize is that moving so quickly from one family to another, they make it easy to transfer to the new marriage all their difficult experiences in the family of origin.”

“From the 5th grade through the 4th year of college, our young people are being indoctrinated with a Marxist philosophy and I am fearful of the harvest. The younger generation is further to the left than most adults realize. The old concepts of our Founding Fathers are scoffed and jeered at by young moderns whose goals appear to be the destruction of integrity and virtue, and the glorification of pleasure, thrills, and self-indulgence.”

“Bad religion is arrogant, self-righteous, dogmatic and intolerant. And so is bad science. But unlike religious fundamentalists, scientific fundamentalists do not realize that their opinions are based on faith. They think they know the truth.”

Thinking Knows Self Realizing Religious Opinion Righteous Arrogant Dogmatic Self Righteous

Author:Rupert Sheldrake

“We are all part of the One Spirit. When you experience the true meaning of religion, which is to know God, you will realize that He is your Self, and that He exists equally and impartially in all beings.”

Knows Self Spirit Realizing Knowing God True Meaning

Author:Paramahansa Yogananda

“This question haunted me all my life and suddenly it hit me: 'There is no self to realize. What the hell have I been doing all this time?' You see, that hits you like lightning. Once that hits you, the whole mechanism of the body that is controlled by this thought is shattered. What is left is the tremendous living organism with an intelligence of its own. What you are left with is the pulse, the beat and the throb of life.”

Self Whole Body Left Realizing Hell Beats Controlled Mechanism Lightning Organisms Pulse Shattered Living Organisms

Author:U.G. Krishnamurti

“Self-importance is a trap, because the moment we start to think that we actually matter is the moment when things start to go wrong. The truth is that you are supremely unimportant and nothing matters. All of man's striving is for nothing; all effort is wasted. To realize that everything is meaningless is tremendously liberating, since it then leaves us completely free to create our own lives and ignore the plans that others have for us.”

Thinking Men Self Matter Moments Realizing Effort Plans Truth Is Importance Strive Meaningless Traps Liberating Unimportant Self-importance Nothing Matters

Author:Tom Hodgkinson

“We have to get to the Self beyond its physical and mental instrumentalities to realize we are not fragile mortal beings; there is an unbroken link between ourselves and the Beloved Mother of the Universe, the Divine Consciousness flowing through and permeating Infinity.”

Soul Self Mother Universe Realizing Consciousness Divine Mortals Beloved Links Infinity Fragile Being There Unbroken Beloved Mother

Author:Daya Mata

“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

“We must establish all over the country schools of our own to train our own children to become scientists, to become mathematicians. We must realize the need for adult education and for job retraining programs that will emphasize a changing society in which automation plays the key role. We intend to use the tools of education to help raise our people to an unprecedented level of excellence and self respect through their own efforts.”

Source: By any means necessary

“When you realize that life isn't fair, you don't act out, you don't get overly wasted, you don't get self-indulgent. You just move forward.”

Self Moving Realizing Fairs Moving Forward Self Indulgent

Author:David Hasselhoff

“... we know that productivity suffers when uncertainty is high. But we've failed to realize the equally destructive effects of too little anxiety. ... By protecting people from risk, we destroy their self-esteem. We rob them of the opportunity to become strong, competent people.”

People Knows Littles Self Suffering Opportunity Strong Realizing Risk Effects Self Esteem Anxiety Productivity Esteem Uncertainty Destructive Competent

Book:Danger in the Comfort Zone: From Boardroom to Mailroom--how to Break the Entitlement Habit That's Killing American Business

Source: Danger in the Comfort Zone: From Boardroom to Mailroom--how to Break the Entitlement Habit That's Killing American Business

“Once you grow accustomed to being famous, you do not realize it, but you are never quite your humble, honest self. No matter how tightly you keep the lid on, there is some watered stock of vanity inside. You are always in danger of the thing's coming off and of giving yourself an air or two. No man or woman was ever so distinguished that this exhibition did not make him ridiculous, especially to those of meaner minds.”

Men Giving Mind Two Self Matter Grows Realizing Air Honest Danger Fame Humble Ridiculous Vanity Accustomed Never Quit Distinguished Exhibitions Being Famous Giving Yourself

Author:Corra May Harris

“As we progress along the intercultural journey, we become self-reflective about habits of heart and mind and the ways these are expressed in daily life. We develop strategies for encountering change, unfamiliarity and ambiguity in creative ways. We begin to realize that what is taken, as "common sense" is really "cultural sense". Our life becomes richer and deeper for having encountered differences.”

Way Mind Heart Self Culture Realizing Differences Common Creative Taken Our Lives Progress Journey Habit Strategy Deeper Common Sense Daily Life Heart And Mind Ambiguity Intercultural

Author:H. Ned Seelye

“It is easy enough to say, Be true to your values. But what if your values are irrational? Or what if the virtues you have committed yourself to are so much against human nature that they cannot be practiced consistently? Be careful of what you accept as your code of morality. Think carefully about whether its tenets serve your life and well being. Exercise critical judgment. Realize how much is at stake-your life, your happiness, your self-esteem.”

“Awakening is not a state but a process: an ethical way of life and commitment that enables human flourishing. As such, it is no longer the exclusive preserve of enlightened teachers or accomplished yogis. Likewise, nirvana-the stopping of craving-is not the goal of the path but its very source. For human flourishing first stirs in that clear, bright, empty space where neurotic self-centredness realizes that it has no ground at all to stand on. One is then freed to pour forth like sunlight.”

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