Quotes About Self-discovery

The person who is talking and making promises, however, is not the entity that commits the violence, and so you can be sure that it will happen again and again unless he becomes present, recognizes the pain-body within himself, and thus disidentifies from it.

Paradójicamente, lo que mantiene en marcha la llamada «sociedad de consumo» es el hecho de que intentar encontrarte a ti mismo a través de las cosas no funciona. La

una persona ya inconsciente tiende a volverse más profundamente inconsciente y una persona consciente más intensamente consciente. Usted puede utilizar un reto para despertar, o puede permitir que lo empuje a un sueño aún más profundo. El sueño de la inconsciencia ordinaria se convierte entonces en una pesadilla.

finding your true nature beyond name and form.

I]t is through knowing who you are not that the greatest obstacle to truly knowing yourself is removed.

Me encanta la sencilla definición de la iluminación dada por Buda como "el fin del sufrimiento". No hay nada sobrehumano en esto, ¿cierto? Por supuesto, como toda definición, es incompleta. Sólo dice lo que la iluminación no es: no es sufrimiento. ¿Pero qué queda cuando ya no hay sufrimiento? El Buda no habla sobre esto y su silencio implica que usted tiene que averiguarlo por sí mismo.

There is nothing wrong with psychoanalysis or finding out about your past as long as you don't confuse knowing about yourself with knowing yourself. ... It is content, not essence.

Know Thyself. What those words imply is this: Before you ask any other question, first ask the most fundamental question of your life: Who am I?

There is nothing wrong with psychoanalysis or finding out about your past as long as you don't confuse knowing about yourself with knowing yourself.

You cannot find yourself by going into the past. You find yourself by coming into the present.

So the single most vital step on your journey toward enlightenment is this: learn to disidentify from your mind.

It is a mind-structure needed for sensory perception, indispensable for practical purposes, but the greatest hindrance to knowing yourself.

Nu deveniÈ›i mai buni încercând s? fiÈ›i buni, ci g?sind bun?tatea care deja se afl? în voi È™i permiÈ›ându-i s? ias? la iveal?. Dar acest lucru este posibil doar dac? se schimb? ceva fundamental în starea voastr? de conÈ™tiin??.

but by finding the goodness that is already within you, and allowing that goodness to emerge. But it can only emerge if something fundamental changes in your state of consciousness

The beginning of freedom is the realization that you are not the possessing entity — the thinker.

But it is through knowing who you are not that the greatest obstacle to truly knowing yourself is removed.

When you realize that what you react to in others is also in you (and sometimes only in you), you begin to become aware of your own ego.

In the seeing of who you are not, the reality of who you are emerges by itself.

Spiritual realization is to see clearly that what I perceive, experience, think, or feel is ultimately not who I am, that I cannot find myself in all those things that continuously pass away. The

You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you, and allowing that goodness to emerge... [which happened] if something fundamental changes in your state of consciousness.

As you become more conscious of your present reality, you may suddenly get certain insights as to why your conditioning functions in those particular ways — for example, why your relationships follow certain patterns — and you may remember things that happened in the past or see them more clearly.

The whole advertising industry and consumer society would collapse if people became enlightened and no longer sought to find their identity through things.

Sustained conscious attention severs the link between the pain-body and your thought processes and brings about the process of transmutation. It is as if the pain becomes fuel for the flame of your consciousness, which then burns more brightly as a result.

An essential part of the awakening is the recognition of the unawakened you, the ego as it thinks, speaks, and acts, as well as the recognition of the collectively conditioned mental processes that perpetuate the unawakened state.