Top Self Quotes

How far is the Soul from attaining moksha (ultimate liberation)? Only the obstructive (antray) karmas.

There is no samkit (vision with right belief that I am Pure Soul) where there are kashays [anger, pride, deceit and greed], and where there are no kashays, there is samkit (self realization).

Self Definition

(a.) Same; particular; very; identical.

(n.) The individual as the object of his own reflective consciousness; the man viewed by his own cognition as the subject of all his mental phenomena, the agent in his own activities, the subject of his own feelings, and the possessor of capacities and character; a person as a distinct individual; a being regarded as having personality.

(n.) Hence, personal interest, or love of private interest; selfishness; as, self is his whole aim.

(n.) Personification; embodiment.

Like it or not, we are all in business and the products we are selling is our unique selves.

In a swamp, as in meditation, you begin to glimpse how elusive, how inherently insubstantial, how fleeting our thoughts are, our identities. There is magic in this moist world, in how the mind lets go...

We lavish more attention onto our past, after its done, than in the making of it. as a result; "What is done" and "Could have been" becomes ruthless killers lurking in the darkness of our consciousnes...

To seek contentment is to release the novelty that lies within monotony

You are greater than you can possibly imagine, if you would only free yourself up to imagine.

But the shadow is merely somewhat inferior, primitive, unadapted, and awkward; not wholly bad. It even contains childish or primitive qualities which would in a way vitalize and embellish human existe...

We guarantee rude emptiness for ourselves; later in life, when we treat children as - "empty buckets", today.

Listen to your inner self, it knows you best.

When is one considered a vitarag (free of attachment)? It is when he has no fear of anything in this world.

If you keep finding yourself in the same situations, the Universe is prompting you to confront self! YOU are the common denominator.

Humility is by far the most spiritual virtue of the lot. The only way by which one may cease obsessing over himself is to wholly step outside his flesh. But who could do this by himself? And who would...

Gnan (knowledge of the Self) can never become agnan (knowledge other than the self, of relative world). It is called agnan only when the focused applied awareness of the Self changes.

The Soul is neither a Jain nor a Vaishnav. The Soul is Vitarag (free from attachment). This is the religion of the Vitarag (the enlightened ones).

The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense.

Humility is attentive patience.

Then you are a poet?' she asked, fingering the flyer in her pocket.'No not at all,' he waved his hand. 'I am merely a character in a poem.

There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character.

Knowledge that brings closure [settlement] to the mind in every way is Absolute Knowledge and it indeed is the all encompassing Knowledge that always gives complete closure [settlement, solutions].