Best Self Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 17

“The effort to lift one's self into perfect enlightenment is a profound thing. It has nothing to do with individual will. It's a refraction of the cosmos. The cosmos delights in itself.”

Self Individual Perfect Effort Enlightenment Profound Delight Lifts Cosmos

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Yes I say that I am enlightened. What does that mean? It means I live in a condition of light...There really is no primary self anymore.”

Mean Doe Self Light Conditions Enlightenment Primaries Enlightened

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you ever want to study acting you should be around an enlightened person for a while, because all they do is play roles, since they no longer have a self.”

Ifs Want Should Persons Self Play Acting Roles Study Teacher Enlightened

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Many people claim to be liberated...it's an endless list! According to "moi", as Ms. Piggy would say, there are currently, on this earth, 12 beings who are self-realized. Eleven are men, one is a woman. Most of them are in the Far East, most of them you've never heard of and probably never will.”

People Men Self Earth Teacher Heard Claims East Lists Endless Enlightened Eleven Liberated Piggy

Author:Frederick Lenz

“People come to a teacher to learn self-discovery. A teacher who just wants to keep you on a string forever, the god-guru concept, a teacher like that is very abusive. Those people are actually usually taking their students energy.”

People Want Self Energy Forever Teacher Students Concepts Discovery Self Discovery Enlightened Strings Guru Abusive

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The teaching process is lengthy because there are many, many states of mind to go through. And in each state of mind there is a different aggregate of self to be explored.”

Mind Different Self States Process Teacher Teaching Enlightened State Of Mind Lengthy

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Most teachers of self-discovery have two types of students. They have students they deal with in a more exoteric way than the esoteric students. Esoteric truths are presented to usually a smaller group of students.”

Way Two Self Deals Teacher Groups Students Type Discovery Self Discovery Enlightened Esoteric

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Only listen to the observations of the enlightened because everyone else is self-centered, egocentric and bound by the net of desire.”

Self Desire Teacher Bounds Observation Enlightened Self Centered Egocentric

Author:Frederick Lenz

“A teacher is someone who has taken their mind much further than you have. They've gone into the void further. They've seen the luminous realities. No one has seen them all...but they've seen more than you have and they understand the trap of self-reflection.”

Mind Self Reality Gone Taken Teacher Reflection Enlightened Void Traps Self Reflection Luminous

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It is equally easy, initially, for either a man or a woman to attain enlightenment, what we would call liberation or self-realization.”

Men Self Easy Women Enlightenment Self Realization Realization Liberation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Women have been denied access to advanced methods of self discovery throughout the ages.”

Has Beens Self Age Women Enlightenment Discovery Method Access Self Discovery Denied

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The few women who have been admitted to the study are usually given a second-class status in which they are taught only the basics of self-discovery.”

Has Beens Self Given Women Class Study Taught Enlightenment Discovery Self Discovery Basics Class Status

Author:Frederick Lenz

“They are denied access to the more advanced techniques of releasing the kundalini energy, which bring about quantum leaps in self-awareness.”

Self Energy Women Awareness Enlightenment Self Awareness Technique Access Leap Denied Quantum Quantum Leap

Author:Frederick Lenz

“What is it to 'walk in the Spirit'? It is not self-occupation, nor even occupation with the Spirit. Walking according to the Spirit is occupation with the Lord Jesus Christ in glory. If the believer ever looks to the Lord Jesus, depends upon Him, draws all his needs from Him- if He is his All in all- then the believer walks according to the Spirit of Christ.”

Ifs Needs Looks Self Christian Spirit Jesus Christ Walks Lord Depends Walking Glory Draws Jesus Christ Believer Occupation Lord Jesus Christ

Author:Arno C. Gaebelein

“Perfectionism is self-destructive simply because there is no such thing as perfect. Perfection is an unattainable goal. Additionally, perfectionism is more about perception - we want to be perceived as perfect. Again, this is unattainable - there is no way to control perception, regardless of how much time and energy we spend trying.”

Way Want Trying Self Motivational Energy Goal Perfect Perception Perfection Destructive Perfectionism Unattainable Time And Energy Self Destructive

Author:Brené Brown

“Belonging is the innate human desire to be part of something larger than us. Because this yearning is so primal, we often try to acquire it by fitting in and by seeking approval, which are not only hollow substitutes for belonging, but often barriers to it. Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world, our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self-acceptance.”

Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

“In the end, we need two things to lead a balanced life - a sense of the world and a sense of ourselves; it's like breathing in and breathing out. And if you can only get to know the world by stepping out, and losing yourself in experience, you can only get to know the self by stepping back, and finding yourself in contemplation. One without the other leads to a kind of madness.”

Ifs Knows World Needs Kind Two Ends Self Motivational Findings Losing Madness Breathing Contemplation Two Things Finding Yourself Balanced Losing Yourself Balanced Life Stepping Back

Author:Pico Iyer

“For us to ignore by inaction the slaughter of American civilians and American soldiers, whether in nightclubs or airline terminals, is simply not in the American tradition. Self-defense is not only our right, it is our duty.”

Self Duty Tradition Soldier Defense Civilians Airline Inaction Slaughter Self Defense Nightclubs American Soldier American Tradition

Book:Speaking my mind: selected speeches

Source: Speaking my mind: selected speeches

“The demands of our reality function require that we adapt to reality, that we constitute ourselves as a reality and that we manufacture works which are realities. But doesn't reverie, by its very essence, liberate us from the reality function? From the moment it is considered in all its simplicity, it is perfectly evident that reverie bears witness to a normal useful irreality function which keeps the human psyche on the fringe of all the brutality of a hostile and foreign non-self.”

Humans Self Moments Reality Bears Demand Normal Essence Function Simplicity Witness Evident Hostile Fringe Brutality Reverie Human Psyche

Author:Gaston Bachelard

“In the World of Reality there is no self, There is no other-than-self.”

World Self Reality

Author:Sengcan

“A man of understanding, a man who understands himself and others, always feels compassion. Even if somebody is an enemy you have compassion toward him because a man of understanding can understand the viewpoint of the other also. He knows why the other feels as he feels, he knows why the other is angry, because he knows his own self, and in knowing that, he has known all others.”

Ifs Knows Men Feels Self Motivational Understanding Compassion Known Enemy Knowing Angry Viewpoints

Author:Rajneesh

“In our own lives, having a mind-set of expecting to win increases our odds of winning. It helps us get better results. And better results help us increase our credibility and self-confidence, which leads to more positive self-expectancy, and more winning - and the upward cycle continues. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.”

Source: The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything

“Being humble does not mean being weak, reticent, or self-effacing. It means recognizing principle and putting it ahead of self. It means standing firmly for principle, even in the fact of opposition.”

Mean Doe Self Facts Motivational Principles Standing Weak Humble Opposition Recognizing Be Humble Stand Firm

Book:The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything

Source: The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything

“How does humility manifest itself in leadership and in life? A humble person is more concerned about what is right than about being right, about acting on good ideas than having the ideas, about embracing new truth than defending outdated position, about building the team than exalting self, about recognizing contribution than being recognized for making it.”

Persons Doe Ideas Self Motivational Acting Team Position Humility Building Concerned Humble Contribution Manifest Good Ideas Recognizing Outdated Humble Person

Book:The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything

Source: The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything

“The gulfing whale was like a dot in the spell. Yet look upon it, and 'twould size and swell To its huge self, and the minutest fish Would pass the very hardest gazer's wish, And show his little eye's anatomy.”

Looks Littles Self Shows Eye Wish Huge Size Fishes Hardest Look Up Spells Whales Dots Anatomy My Wish

Author:William Blake

“To be "integrally developed" does not mean that you have to excel in all the known intelligences, or that all of your lines have to be at level 3. But it does mean that you develop a very good sense of what your own psychograph is actually like, so that with a much more Integral self-image you can plan your future development.”

Mean Doe Self Lines Levels Known Plans Development Very Good Intelligence Our Future Your Future Good Sense Future Development

Book:Integral Spirituality: A Startling New Role for Religion in the Modern and Postmodern World

Source: Integral Spirituality: A Startling New Role for Religion in the Modern and Postmodern World

“The principle of fasting is taught in almost all major world religions as a means of developing a higher level of self-mastery and self-control, and also a deeper awareness of how really dependent we are.”

Source: The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness

“The creator made us creative. Our creativity is our gift from God. Our use of it is our gift to God. Accepting this bargain is the beginning of true self-acceptance.”

Inspirational Made Self Use Accepting Creativity Creative Acceptance Creator Self Acceptance True Self Bargains Gift From God

Book:The Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition

Source: The Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition

“You are living in a time when opportunities for self-empowerment, expanded awareness and spiritual growth appear to be unlimited.”

Self Spiritual Opportunity Growth Awareness Self Esteem Empowerment Self Confidence Esteem Spiritual Growth Unlimited Self Empowerment Boost Self Confidence Boost Self Esteem

Book:Path of Empowerment: New Pleiadian Wisdom for a World in Chaos

Source: Path of Empowerment: New Pleiadian Wisdom for a World in Chaos

“Our connection with our intuitive self is ever present and always a part of ourselves.”

Self Self Esteem Connections Self Confidence Esteem Intuitive Boost Self Confidence Boost Self Esteem

Author:James Van Praagh

“We use intuition as a way to connect with our Divine Self.”

Way Self Use Self Esteem Divine Intuition Self Confidence Esteem Boost Self Confidence Boost Self Esteem

Author:James Van Praagh

“Friendship with oneself is all important.”

Source: What I Hope to Leave Behind: The Essential Essays of Eleanor Roosevelt

“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 become conscious of God, to become God's consciousness, to become God, to be God and to be beyond God, God being beyond God, God having an existence separate from the creation, to be that, to merge with that, to lose one's self and find one's self endlessly again and again in that is self-realization.”

Self God Loses Existence Consciousness Creation Conscious Self Realization Realization Again And Again

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Most people's Gods are self-reflective. God just has to be like you. You get concerned, so you assume God must get concerned. You get pissed off, so you assume God must get pissed off. You're attached to things that you create, so you assume that God would be.”

People Self God Would Be Like You Concerned Assuming Pissed Off

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It's amazing to me how many people who profess to be spiritual seekers are self-seekers, and how few of them ever consider God.”

People Self God Spiritual Seekers

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Souls have different journeys. The best thing to know is, not what everybody else does, but what you do. Self-discovery essentially is finding your own dharma, your own rhythm.”

Knows Doe Different Soul Self Journey Buddhism Findings Discovery Self Discovery Rhythm Best Things Dharma

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Of the four major pathways to self-realization, jnana yoga, from the point of view of the beginner, is the most difficult.”

Self Difficult Views Four Majors Yoga Point Of View Self Realization Realization Pathways Beginners

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We examine everything in existence and we come to see that everything is transitory and temporal, that which is left over is God, is eternity, is the Self.”

Self Left Existence Yoga Eternity Transitory

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When we talk about self-realization, we're talking from the point of view of limitation of the mind. Real knowledge is to see that you are that - you are eternity.”

Mind Real Self Views Talking Yoga Eternity Point Of View Self Realization Realization Limitation Real Knowledge

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

“This is not the case. There is nothing that is not the Self. The Self does not have to be realized.”

Doe Self Cases Yoga

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There has never been anything but the Self. There is no world, there is no time, there is no place, there is no condition. There is nothing and there can be nothing else.”

World Self Conditions Yoga

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The whole objective universe is created, ordered, by our perception and by our sense of self.”

Self Whole Universe Perception Yoga Objectives Sense Of Self

Author:Frederick Lenz

“What is self? Self is the mind viewing itself. That's all. The mind stops viewing itself and turns towards infinity. There is no self, there's only infinity.”

Mind Self Turns Yoga Infinity

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Where do these images comes from and where do they return? What is it that projects these images? How is it that we are the screen? How is it that we have forgotten that we are the Self and that nothing but the Self exists?”

Self Return Projects Yoga Forgotten Screens

Author:Frederick Lenz

“All questions about the Self, fall away in the white light of eternity, in nirvana, because then we have awakened from the dream.”

Self Dream Light Fall White Yoga Eternity Awakened White Light

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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

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