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“Without birth or death, eternal, ever-existing, free, unchangeable and beyond all conditions is this Soul of man - the real Self of Man - the Atman.”

Men Real Soul Self God Spiritual Spirituality Conditions Birth Eternal Real Self Unchangeable Atman

Author:Swami Vivekananda

“All beings exist in an invisible state and then come to a state of visibility. Change occurs only on the surface, for the self-existent glory remains unchanged; changing form does not affect the self-existent Reality. Atman, Soul or the Self, dwells in all that is perishable, yet it remains imperishable.”

Doe Soul Self States God Reality Spiritual Form Spirituality Glory Remains Surface Invisible Visibility Atman

Author:Rama Swami

“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

“It's a basic fact about being human that sometimes the self seems to just melt away.”

Humans Soul Self Sometimes God Facts Seems Spirituality Being Human

Author:Jonathan Haidt

“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

“Conscious business.. business that is conscious of inner and outer worlds.. would therefore be business that takes into account body, mind, and spirit in self, culture, and nature. Put differently, conscious business would be mindful of the way that the spectrum of consciousness operates in the Big Three worlds of self and culture and nature.”

World Way Mind Self God Body Bigs Would Be Spirit Culture Spirituality Three Business Consciousness Self Help Conscious Accounts Spectrum Outer Worlds

Author:Ken Wilber

“The individual may be understood as one particular focal point at which the whole universe expresses itself - as an incarnation of the self, or of the Godhead, or whatever one may choose to call it.”

May Self Whole Spirituality Universe Individual Particular Understood Incarnation Focal Point

Book:The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

Source: The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

“If we practice the science of yoga, which is useful to the entire human community and which yields happiness both here and hereafter - if we practice it without fail, we will then attain physical, mental, and spiritual happiness, and our minds will flood towards the Self.”

Ifs Mind Humans Self Spiritual Spirituality Community Practice Failing Yoga Yield Flood Hereafter Yoga Practice Spiritual Happiness

Book:Yoga Mala: The Seminal Treatise and Guide from the Living Master of Ashtanga Yoga

Source: Yoga Mala: The Seminal Treatise and Guide from the Living Master of Ashtanga Yoga

“Sometimes river flows very strong, sometimes it flows very small, but it makes no difference to the ocean because it is satisfied in itself with its own quantity of water. Similarly, when our heart is cleansed with spirituality, we find pleasure and ecstasy with our own selves that is so sweet, so wonderful and so satisfying, that the so-called pleasures of this world no longer have any values, no appeal at all.”

“If you deny yourself access to the child within because you're too serious, you also block your connection to the divine Light and your feminine self. Every creator who's any good uses their feminine side to create with.. Whether a scientist working on a hunch, a painter working on the interplay of colors, or a musician dealing with the juxtaposition of notes and chords.”

Ifs Children Self Use Light Spirituality Sides Divine Color Serious Musician Connections Scientist Notes Creator Deny Access Block Painter Feminine Chords Hunches Juxtaposition Divine Light

Author:Stuart Wilde

“The secret to peace-of-mind is to not identify with anything other than your true self.”

Mind Self Spiritual Spirituality Secret Peace Of Mind True Self

Author:Robert Adams

“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

“My mother ... had a very deep inner spirituality that allowed her to rebuild her life. It's extraordinary that she had such a strong sense of self and such a commitment to the future and such a strong creative sense that she could build new worlds for herself and for us out of the total devastation in her life.”

World Self Inspiration Mother Spirituality Strong Creative Mom Commitment Extraordinary New World Sense Of Self Very Deep Happy Mothers Day Devastation Strong Sense Of Self

Author:Caroline Kennedy

“Overcome any bitterness that may have come because you were not up to the magnitude of the pain entrusted to you. Like the mother of the world who carries the pain of the world in her heart, you are sharing in a certain measure of that cosmic pain, and are called upon to meet it in joy instead of self pity.”

World Heart May Self Pain Spiritual Joy Mother Certain Spirituality Overcoming Pity Carrie Bitterness Cosmic Magnitude Self Pity

Author:Vilayat Inayat Khan

“We are all more or less ill till we find -Self-enquiry our Oneness with everyone else.”

Self Spirituality Ill Oneness Enquiry

Author:Douglas Harding

“The word Atman (Soul) means the "breath of life". Atman is the principle of man's life, the Soul that pervades his being, his breath, his intellect and transcends them. Atman is what remains when everything that is not the self is eliminated. It is the unborn and immortal element in man, which is not to be confused with body, mind or intellect.”

Men Mind Mean Soul Self God Body Spiritual Spirituality Principles Elements Breaths Remains Intellect Confused Immortal Unborn Atman

Author:Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

“The self (Soul) is the constant-witness consciousness. Through all months, seasons and years, through all divisions of time, the past, present and future the consciousness remains one and self luminous. It neither rises nor sets. The ultimate self is free from sin, free from old age, free from death and grief, free from hunger and thirst, which desires nothing and imagines nothing.”

“Bad Gardens copy, good gardens create, great gardens transcend. What all great gardens have in common are their ability to pull the sensitive viewer out of him or herself and into the garden, so completely that the separate self-sense disappears entirely, and at least for a brief moment one is ushered into a nondual and timeless awareness. A great garden, in other words, is mystical no matter what its actual content.”

“Authentic spirituality is revolutionary. It does not legitimate the world, it breaks the world; it does not console the world, it shatters it. And it does not render the self content, it renders it undone.”

World Doe Self Spirituality Break Revolutionary Mysticism Undone Console

Author:Ken Wilber

“Every man contemplates an angel in his future self.”

Men Self Spirituality Inspiring Angel Every Man Mysticism Contemplating My Angel Future Self Angels On Earth

Book:The complete works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: The complete works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“To start from the self and try to understand all things is delusion. To let the self be awakened by all things is enlightenment.”

Trying Self Spiritual Spirituality Enlightenment All Things Delusion Awakened

Author:Dogen

“Authentic spirituality... does not render the self content, it renders it undone.”

Doe Soul Self Spiritual Spirituality Undone

Author:Ken Wilber

“When you examine the lives of the most influential people who have ever walked among us, you discover one thread that winds through them all. They have been aligned first with their spiritual nature and only then with their physical selves.”

People Firsts Has Beens Soul Self Spiritual Spirituality Wind Thread Influential Spiritual Nature Influential People

Author:Albert Einstein

“The spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which can be pointed out by your finger.”

Self Spirit Spirituality Figures Fingers Mysticism True Self

Book:De Re Publica

Source: De Re Publica

“Self-realisation means that we have been consciously connected with our source of being. Once we have made this connection, then nothing can go wrong.”

Mean Has Beens Made Self Spirituality Source Connections Connected Realisation Self Realisation

Author:Swami Paramananda

“Just try to learn the truth by approaching a spiritual master. Inquire from him submissively and render service unto him. The self-realized soul can impart knowledge unto you because he has seen the truth.”

Trying Soul Self Truth Spiritual Spirit Spirituality Masters Impart Spiritual Masters

Book:Bhagavad-Gita as it is: Abridged edition with translations and elaborate purports

Source: Bhagavad-Gita as it is: Abridged edition with translations and elaborate purports

“Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.”

Self Spiritual Spirituality Common Virtue Sacrifice Deny Common Sense Philanthropy Self Sacrifice Dissipation Personal Sacrifice

Author:Margaret Deland

“Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.”

Art Self Spiritual Spirituality Risk Sacrifice Art Is Self Sacrifice Unthinkable

Author:Boris Pasternak

“Learn to self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it.”

Self Wisdom Spiritual Spirituality Fun Gains Advantage Persistence Perceive Conquest Persevere

Author:Teresa of Avila

“One who is established in a comfortable posturewhile concentrating on the inner self alonenaturally becomes immersed in the spontaneousarising of the heart's ocean of bliss.”

Heart Self Spirituality Ocean Comfortable Yoga Bliss Inner Self Concentrating

Author:Jaideva Singh

“To share your spiritual self or grounding with anyone brings about a reality that must assert itself.”

Self Reality Spiritual Spirituality Share Mysticism Grounding

Author:Roger A. Kaufman

“The most intimate question we can ask, and the one that has the most spiritual power, is this: What or who am I?”

Self Spiritual Spirituality Asks Intimate Spiritual Power

Book:True Meditation: Discover the Freedom of Pure Awareness

Source: True Meditation: Discover the Freedom of Pure Awareness

“"Spirituality" in business sounds lofty. How practical is it? The answer is "very." There's a fundamental way in which Spirit and consciousness contribute to worldly success-and it has long been ignored. [. . .] As experts, authors and gurus often note, the game of business is to influence the external world. But here's the point: How can you control your environment if you can't even manage your own thoughts and emotions? In other words, how do you rule the world without first mastering yourself? The cornerstone of effective leadership is self-mastery.”

“Knowing has two poles, and they are always poles apart: carnal knowing, the laying on of hands, the hanging of the fact by head or heels, the measurement of mass and motion, the calibration of brutal blows, the counting of supplies; and spiritual knowing, invisibly felt by the inside self, who is but a fought-over field of distraction, a stage where we recite the monotonous monologue that is our life, a knowing governed by internal tides, by intimations, motives, resolutions, by temptations, secrecy, shame, and pride.”

Source: Finding a Form: Essays

“...(I)ndividual selfhood is expressed in the self's capacity for self-transcendence and not in its rational capacity for conceptual and analytic procedures.”

Self Spirituality Capacity Rational Transcendence Procedures Analytics

Book:The Nature and Destiny of Man: A Christian Interpretation : Human Nature

Source: The Nature and Destiny of Man: A Christian Interpretation : Human Nature

“Seen through the eyes of faith, religion's future is secure. As long as there are human beings, there will be religion for the sufficient reason that the self is a theomorphic creature - one whose morphe (form) is theos - God encased within it. Having been created in the imago Dei, the image God, all human beings have a God-shaped vacuum built into their hearts. Since nature abhors a vacuum, people keep trying to fill the one inside them.”

“There are books in rivulets and sermons in stones. You can gather lessons from everything. If a man does nothing whatsoever he recedes into his own self. God didn't do anything; He was one and wished to be many. He wished - and there were many. If He had not wished there to be many, it would have been sufficient-there would still be the wordless state. So to be in a wordless state is very supreme.”

Ifs Men Doe Has Beens Stills Book Self States Spirituality Lessons Stones Supreme Sufficient Sermons

Author:Kirpal Singh

“The premises being thus settled, I proceed to observe that the concatenation of self-existence, proceeding in a reciprocal duplicate ratio, naturally produces a problematical dialogism, which in some measure proves that the essence of spirituality may be referred to the second predicable.”

May Self Spirituality Existence Produce Prove Essence Premises Ratios Proceeding Reciprocal Duplicate

Book:Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield employed as a means of reading made easy without any alteration of orthography ... By Charles Theodor von Kersten

Source: Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield employed as a means of reading made easy without any alteration of orthography ... By Charles Theodor von Kersten

“Understand this if nothing else: spiritual freedom and oneness with the Tao are not randomly bestowed gifts, but the rewards of conscious self-transformation and self-evolution.”

Ifs Self Spiritual Spirituality Understanding Evolution Conscious Transformation Rewards Oneness Taoism Tao Self Transformation Spiritual Freedom

Author:Laozi

“The sense of an entailed disadvantage - the deformed foot doubtfully hidden by the shoe, makes a restlessly active spiritual yeast, and easily turns a self-centered, unloving nature into an Ishmaelite.”

Self Spiritual Turns Spirituality Nature Feet Shoes Active Self Centered Disadvantages Yeast

Book:Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus

Source: Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus

“The hope for the twentieth century rests on recognition that war and depression are man-made, and needless. They can be avoided in the future by turning from the nineteenth-century characteristics just mentioned (materialism, selfishness, false values, hypocrisy, and secret vices) and going back to other characteristics that our Western Society has always regarded as virtues: generosity, compassion, cooperation, rationality, and foresight, and finding a increased role in human life for love, spirituality, charity, and self discipline.”

“Self-awareness is not self-centeredness, and spirituality is not narcissism. 'Know thyself' is not a narcissistic pursuit.”

Knows Love Inspirational Self Spirituality Peace Awareness Forgiveness Self Awareness Pursuit Narcissism Thyself Narcissistic Know Thyself Self Centeredness Centeredness Life Altering

Author:Marianne Williamson

“Without the body, the wisdom of the larger self cannot be known.”

Self Wisdom Body Spirituality Known Garden Gardening

Book:Jung & Reich: The Body as Shadow

Source: Jung & Reich: The Body as Shadow

“Spirituality is a journey inward that connects the Self to yourself. When you know who you are from the inside out, when you do what you sense is right for you, when your thoughts lead you to actions that serve others as well as make you feel good, then you have encountered spirituality.”

Knows Feels Wells Self Action Spirituality Journey Who You Are Feel Good Inward Make You Feel Good

Author:Iyanla Vanzant