Quotes About Self

One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error.

Nearly all the wisdom we possess, that is to say, true and sound wisdom, consists of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves.

Belief in ourself is like a muscle - it is strengthened by constant and careful use.

Most perfect self-understanding is the capability to directly (immediately) transcend dilemma, all problems, all seeking.

Knowledge studies others, wisdom is self known.

The fool is willing to pay for anything but wisdom. No man buys that of which he supposes himself to have an abundance already.

Don't believe everything you think.

The fatal flaw of human wisdom is that it promises that you can change your relationships without needing to change yourself.

Allowing the truth of who you are-your spiritual self-to rule your life means you stop the struggle and learn to move with the flow of your life.

Knowledge is an affair of symbols and is, all too often, a hindrance to wisdom, the uncovering of the self from moment to moment

The death of the self lies in the life of the heart

Till man destroys "self" he is no true friend of God.

We can and do control the direction of our own evolution.

Man's ideal state is realized when he has fulfilled the purpose for which he is born. And what is it that reason demands of him? Something very easy-that he live in accordance with his own nature.

One hand I extend into myself, the other toward others.

Wisdom and inner peace must be created by yourself.

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

Buddha had said: "Each of us is a God. Each of us knows all. We need only open our minds to hear our own wisdom.

Do we not realize that the basic condition for a spiritual walk is to fear our self and its wisdom and to rely absolutely upon the Spirit?

When you are the Spirit, you are like a brilliant diamond, which is giving light by itself.

What a man 'learns' is really what he 'discovers,' by taking the cover off his own soul, which is a mine of infinite knowledge.

hypnotise our minds into the belief that we are brave.

Krishna is the higher Self, or God. He sees through the argument at once. In this case [the motive] is weakness.

We see the world as we are.