Self Realization Quotes

Sincerity is that whereby self-completion is effected, and its way is that by which man must direct himself.

You sought the heaviest burden: there you found yourself.

The curtain falls, and man once more finds himself a child playing with whole worlds - a child, awoken by the first glow of morning, who laughingly wipes the frightful dreams from his brow.

Man is very well defended against himself... The actual fortress is inaccessible, even invisible to him, unless his friends and enemies play the traitor and conduct him in by a secret path.

We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge-and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves-how could it happen that we should ever find ourselves? It has rightly been said: Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

But to show you my heart fully, my friends: if there were gods, how could I bear to be not a god! Therefore, there are no gods.

This is a call to arms. A call to be gentle, to be forgiving, to be generous with yourself. The next time you look into the mirror, try to let go of the storyline that says you're too fat or too sallow, too ashy or too old, your eyes are too small or your nose too big; just look into the mirror and see your face. When the criticism drops away, what you will see then is just you, without judgment, and that is the first step toward transforming your experience of the world.

No matter how far away from yourself you may have strayed, there is always a path back. You already know who you are and how to fulfill your destiny. And your ruby slippers are ready to carry you home.

If you peel back the layers of your life-the frenzy, the noise-stillness is waiting. That stillness is you.

It's the greatest discovery of life: to recognize that you're more than your body and your mind.

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

I awoke only to find that the rest of the world was still asleep.

At some point, if you're lucky, you realize you're not the story. You're part of the story. The story is much bigger than you.

I always thought it was me against the world and then one day I realized it's just me against me.

When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.

When you love and accept yourself, when you know who really cares about you, and when you learn from your mistakes, then you stop caring about what people who don't know you think.

It is so liberating to really know what I want, what truly makes me happy, what I will not tolerate. I have learned that it is no one else's job to take care of me but me.

Cool means being able to hang with yourself. All you have to ask yourself is 'Is there anybody I`m afraid of? Is there anybody who if I walked into a room and saw, I`d get nervous?' If not, then you`re cool.

When you feel in your gut what you are and then dynamically pursue it - don't back down and don't give up - then you're going to mystify a lot of folks.

The deeper I go into myself, the stronger I become, because I realize that my real self is much bigger than any fear.