Quotes About Self

Thought is not essential to existence nor its cause, but it is an instrument for becoming; I become what I see in myself. All that thought suggests to me, I can do; all that thought reveals in me, I can become. This should be man's unshakable faith in himself, because God dwells in him.

Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests.

The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.

Man is by nature a lover. Only he has yet to discover the real thing to love. This quest awakens him to the fulfillment of his real Self.

You unite me with Yourself, O True God. Through perfect good karma You are obtained.

Love says 'I am everything.' Wisdom says 'I am nothing.' Between the two, my life flows.

All you want is to be happy. All your desires, whatever they may be, are longing for happiness. Basically, you wish yourself well...desire by itself is not wrong. It is life itself, the urge to grow in knowledge and experience. It is choices you make that are wrong. To imagine that some little thing-food, sex, power, fame-will make you happy is to decieve oneself. Only something as vast and deep as your real self can make you truly and lastingly happy.

Whatever happens, happens to you by you, through you; you are the creator, enjoyer and destroyer of all you perceive.

When I look inside and see that I am nothing, that is wisdom. When I look outside and see that I am everything, that is love. And between these two, my life flows.

Wisdom tells me I am nothing, love tells me I am everything. Between the two, my life flows.

The way back to yourself is through refusal and rejection.

You must know your own true being as indomitable, fearless, ever victorious. Once you know with absolute certainty that nothing can trouble you but your own imagination, you come to disregard your desires and fears, concepts and ideas, and live by truth alone.

The sensation of beingness is a matter of experience, but I am beyond that. Some people claim that they have memories of past lives. I do not have even the experience of myself at anytime.

The light which you see outside arises from your own light. The light of the sun and the moon cannot be compared to the light of your Self.

I am Atma, the Self, formless, without modifications and pure,

The problem is not yours—it is your mind's only. Begin by disassociating yourself from your mind. Resolutely remind yourself that you are not the mind and that its problems are not yours.

Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.

You do not grow by acquiring something nor wither away by losing it. You remain what you always are.

Unless a man live the ordinary life and check every incident as the projection of the Self, not swerving from the Self in any circumstances, he cannot be said to be free from the handicap of ignorance

Moksha is defined as the steady glow of the Self in perfection.

Science is about learning 'what something is' and spirituality is about knowing 'who I am'. The

Let a man lift himself by his own Self alone, let him not lower himself; for the Self alone is the friend of oneself and this Self alone is the enemy of oneself (5).

i can nourish myself on nothing but truth

It is as if he should feel that there is an enemy who could be more destructive to himself than that hatred which excites him against his fellow man; or that he could destroy him whom he hates more completely than he destroys his own soul by this same hatred.