adversity is a great tool to self discovery.

Let the darkness find you if it must. Throw off the quick and tempting escapes, and seek help only from those who would teach you to grow, feed your soul, embrace your heart, but would...

Perhaps defining a self begins with simply making the first choice, simply rising up and deciding what you desire, and then methodically, like writing, putting one word after the other until you have created a...

I know that I’ve never been perfect. I think we determine what’s perfect to us. I think we understand perfect doesn’t come perfectly. If I was to be bare face or a face full of...

YOU ARE NOT HERE TO LISTEN TO YOURSELF,YOU ARE HERE TO LISTEN TO YOUR SOUL.

Enlightenment is the ability to comprehend ourselves, it is the power to peer into our hearts and minds and reach that state of spiritual bliss, which may or may not lead us to salvation.

Those who do not attempt to appear more than they are but are simply themselves, stand out as remarkable and are the only ones who truly make a difference in this world.

Sometimes we need to look at everything going wrong in our lives and admit to ourselves, “I am the only common denominator here.

The mystic, identifying neither with his-her race-religion-gender nor with any mind-made blunder, lives and dies in One’s splendor.

How can we succeed, if we never tried?

It is the man who loves reading books who gets to know himself

Question: You seem to advise me to be self-centered to the point ofegoism. Must I not yield even to my interest in other people?Maharaj: Your interest in others is egoistic, self-concerned, self-oriented. You are not...

The Buddhists or the Jains do not depend upon God; but the whole force of their religion is directed to the great central truth in every religion, to evolve a God out of man. They...

My job as a coach isn’t to ‘fix’ people it is to ‘break’ them and empower them to connect to their spirit and trust that they will be re-built into a new improved version given...

Any self-realized being has access to the dynamic genius which nature gives all beings.

If you are satisfied, you bring your satisfaction to the moment and fill the circumstances of your life with that satisfaction. If you are dissatisfied, however, no one and nothing can produce contentment for you.

It’s only the ego that wants to surrender the ego; the real meaning of surrender does not involve anything external. It means to surrender to your true nature.

To live in denial of caring deeply, to hold oneself back from speaking from the heart as a means of self protection, to speak in whispers, to describe what you have together as “this.” Oh...

All are at war with the one who wars against self.

One shouldn’t forget his goal ever, whether he has to lose his personality on way to get it. Because to recognize aim and to achieve it, is the real life.

Sometimes our Biggest Nightmare turns out to be our Biggest Gift. And it all comes down to our attitude. Life will throw us curve balls and disappointments, even heartbreak. But ultimately we can choose if...

You know how sometimes you can be going along and do something or say something, and suddenly you *know* yourself? I mean, it’s like you’re looking at somebody else, and it’s just so fucking clear...

On a surface level, all one finds is repeated forms of shallow whispers. Having the courage to explore deeply, a wealth of buried infinite lifetimes emerge – an undeniable force.

Courage doesn’t happen when you have all the answers. It happens when you are ready to face the questions you have been avoiding your whole life.

Don’t worry about wanting to change; start worrying when you don’t feel like changing anymore. And in the meantime, enjoy every version of yourself you ever meet, because not everybody who discovers their true identity...

Her mother had once told her that one could run away from home, from husband, from children, from trouble, but it was impossible to run away from oneself. “You always have to take yourself with...

Whatever experiences we may come across in our spiritual journey we are not any of those experiences but rather the one who is witnessing them, the pure awareness cognizing them without thought.

Your attitude determines your altitude and your altitude your accolades, access and success.

Fulfilling your special calling brings the greatest happiness.

Stop listening to people who don’t experience happiness, success, peace, and fulfillment themselves. Don’t let them tell you what is right and wrong!

For within your flesh, deep within the center of your being, is the undaunted, waiting, longing, all-knowing. Is the ready, able, perfect. Within you, waiting its turn to emerge, piece by piece, with the dawn...

What are we if we are not disciplined?

It doesn’t seem like you’re living a life, it’s almost like you’re travelling on a train with the destination unknown.You’re sitting on a seat near the window looking outside, imagining how things are there outside,...

Why does it matter what I own,how I look, what I wear,if I don’t help out a friend in need,if I’ve forgotten to love and care.

Bliss is inherent in the Self as fragrance is inherent in a flower. As the flower of the Self-love blossoms, bliss comes spontaneously as the fragrance.

When you are truly awakened, you have completely stopped trying to become awakened. You simply are. You know that you did not locate awakening; awakening located you.

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We’re shadows! of naught;living, dying! for what’s not.

When you have a command over your thoughts and how they are creating, you are the center of your creation. When you put your responsibility outside of yourself and subject yourself as a victim of...

It just seemed like telling the truth would mean admitting some weakness

What would be the best therapy? Punching the evil sod in the knob! […]It doesn’t undo it though. You’d feel good for a second and then there’s just emptiness. It’s like bingeing. After the chocolate...

You can never clear a thought from someone’s mind, which is incepted by a external cause. thy you know the truth, let it pass patience and self realization is the key to clearance.

A selfish person can still love someone else, can’t they? Even when they’ve hurt them and let them down.

Don’t behave like your heart and mind are strangers to you; they are yours, don’t depend on others to understand them, you got to understand them.

Dare to dream! If you did not have the capability to make your wildest wishes come true, your mind would not have the capacity to conjure such ideas in the first place. There is no...

What is constant? Is the mind anything more than a conglomeration of thoughts? Where is the mind apart from thought? If there is no thought, can there be a mind? They cancel each other out,...

Life isn’t about self realization; it’s about self creation.

Go realize your dreams.

I spent too long worrying about what other people think.

Your success can’t be measured by anyone else. You have to set your own goals and do what gives you a sense of fulfillment.