Top 1200 Self-Realization Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

What good are thoughts and emotions-in fact all of our experiences-if not to increase our realization?

Self-blame usually has an undertone of self-congratulation.

Self-esteem comes from the self, not from acquisitions and approval.

Self-respect leads to self-discipline.

Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?

The integration of the Negro into American society is one of the most exciting challenges to self-development and self-mastery that any nation of people ever faced.

He lost his Self a thousand times and for days on end he dwelt in non-being. But although the paths took him away from Self, in the end they always led back to it. Although Siddhartha fled from the Self a thousand times, dwelt in nothing, dwelt in animal and stone, the return was inevitable; the hour was inevitable when he would again find himself in sunshine or in moonlight, in shadow or in rain, and was again Self and Siddhartha, again felt the torment of the onerous life cycle.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

It isn't that greed's increased. What's increased is the realization that you've got a free field to reach out for what you'd like to do.

Gratitude is liberating. It is subversive. It helps us to realize that we are sufficient, and that realization frees us.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

Love your self's self where it lives.

Ignorance is the source of hatred, and the way to get rid of ignorance is realization.

When you are in the mundane from what is deeper than your self, you realize the mundane to be more than your self, and your self opens. It opens in its structuring and in its form, enabling you as the form of your self to move in the deeper levels of the mundane

The state we call realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything.

Self knowledge is the beginning of self improvement.

Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.

A realization and a dissection of the canon gave rise to the work. But there's also a sneaking suspicion of the canon.

It is the photographs that gives one the vivid realization of what actually took place. (On photographs from Abu Ghraib prison.)

Self-forgiveness is essential to self-healing.

There is that whole realization that I'm not just speaking to Filipinos anymore: I'm speaking to a global audience.

I can't describe it in words, but I can see it in my head, its color, its light, its shapes, and I've managed to synthesize my love for myself by way of many different reasonings and processes, and I've been able to really synthesize my own satisfaction and things that do it for me. They've usually been self-taught, self-instructed, self-refined. So to be with anybody else has to somewhat lie in that comfort zone I've created with myself so well.

There's a lot to be said for being in a room with a casting agent or a director. There are things you can't really replicate when you're self-taping and there's the bonus of having someone to direct you, which is extremely helpful. The benefit of self-taping is, I suppose, being on your own clock. It's certainly more relaxing to self-tape than to audition with someone in the flesh but I don't know if it's necessarily better.

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.

The rewards are profound. Shadow-work enables us to alter our self-sabotaging behavior so that we can achieve a more self-directed life.

It is implicit in the self that the self will automatically evolve if you can dissolve it. It re-patterns itself after archetypal formations that exist deep within the mind.

Few things are as encouraging as the realization that things can be different and that we have a role in making them so.

My usual self is a very unusual self.

Fear comes from personal self-acceptance and not the self.

So I came to the realization: Nothing in life is unfair. It's just life.

Everyone has a private self and a public self.

Self-government means self support.

Dharma is one and one only. Ahimsa means moksha, and moksha is the realization of Truth.

Self-doubt is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Self care isn't selfish. It's self esteem.

I realized early on I was not an actor. And it was a great thing to have that realization. To see actors and see what that talent is... it wasn't me.

Sanctification consists of the daily realization that in Christ we have died, and in Christ we have been raised.

I'm not exactly ambitious as much as I have a very good realization of what I am and what I am capable of.

The child is born with a Self but not with an ego. The child develops the ego. As he becomes more and more social and related, ego develops. This ego is just on your periphery where you are related with others - just on the boundary of your being. So ego is the periphery of your being, and Self is the center. The child is born with a Self, but unaware. He is a Self, but he is not conscious of the Self.

......at this point the self has obviously outworn its function; it is no longer needed or useful, and life can go on without it. we are ready to move on, to go beyond the self, beyond even its most intimate union with God, and this is where we enter yet another new life- a life best categorized, perhaps, as a life without a self.

You do your best with the realization that nothing gets you in ring-shape better than being in the ring.

Self-discipline is the key to personal greatness. It is the magic quality that opens all doors for you, and makes everything else possible. With self-discipline, the average person can rise as far and as fast as his talents and intelligence can take him. But without self-discipline, a person with every blessing of background, education and opportunity will seldom rise above mediocrity.

A certain amount of contempt for the material employed to express an idea is indispensable to the purest realization of this idea.

We're trying to give a young man life lessons - sacrifice, commitment, teamwork, self-confidence, self-esteem. That's what this sport does for kids.

What might once have been called whining is now exalted as a process of asserting selfhood; self-absorption is regarded as a form of self-expression.

Major theme of the book ["Hotels of North America"], from my point of view: what is persona, what is self, in the digital sphere, and/or what is the effect of it on self in a prolonged interaction.

The truest self-respect is not to think of self.

What does God hate or punish except self-will? Let self-will cease, and there will be no hell. On what does that fire feed except on self-will?

Obesity is the result of a loss of self-control. Indeed, loss of self-control might be said to be the defining social (or anti-social) characteristic of our age: public drunkenness, excessive gambling, promiscuity and common-or-garden rudeness are all examples of our collective loss of self-control.

Translate all self-judgments into self-empathy.

All the classical meditation traditions, in one way or another, stress nonattachment to the self as a goal of practice. Oddly, this dimension is largely ignored in scientific research, which tends to focus on health and other such benefits. I suppose the difference has to do with the contrast in views of the self from the spiritual and scientific perspectives. Scientists value the self; spiritual traditions have another perspective.

Having seen and felt the end, you have willed the means to the realization of the end.

No one seriously doubts Socrates' maxim: The unexamined life isn't worth living. Self-assessment and attempts at self-improvement are essential aspects of "the good life." Yes, we should engage in ruthless self-reflection and harsh scrutiny, but we should simultaneously acknowledge that such introspection will, at best, only result in a partial view of our minds at work. Complete objectivity is not an option.

Self worship is different from self love.

Man is spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is the self? The self is a relation which relates itself to itself.

Heroism, self-denial, and magnanimity, in all instances where they do not spring from a principle of religion, are but splendid altars on which we sacrifice one kind of self-love to another.

Self-awareness is a key to self-mastery

What you really are isn’t loyal to your self. It won’t favor your self. It will turn your self into what you really are.

Self-righteousness is a manifestation of self-contempt.

I came to a stark realization: chronic surpluses could be almost as destabilizing as chronic deficits.