Quotes Tagged "self-awareness"

You are not just the vessel that gets poured with enlightenment from the source of enlightenment, but you are the source as well.

The rain reminds him that one travels to sacred places in order to awaken that which lies sleeping within. He journeys on this path not to escape the world, but to enter it more deeply. Sometimes that is the only way we can open the doors to our own hearts, to realize that the whole of the earth lives inside the human heart.

If this is a dream, I hope I remember it.

Sometimes I have trouble telling my dreams from reality. The farther I travel from some experience, the more unsure I am that it actually happened. Just like a dream, the closer I am to it, the more sure I am that it's real.

From my low perch, I watch the world as it passes by on these dirty side streets. There are no westerners in this corner of the city. Just locals going about their business. Weighing out brightly colored spices, walking back from the fish market, stopping at the paan shop, socializing over tea. Old men in lungis and flip-flops walking hand in hand and dirty-faced children who are all bright smiles and wild eyes. I am comfortable here. Sitting on this board, in this tiny chai stall, hidden away from the recognizable world. For the moment, I have disappeared.

You will never experience the true self by using the mind in an attempt to find it.

All gods are worthless if your inner godliness remains asleep all through your life.

Being able to be aware that we have thoughts, but that we are not our thoughts, is a major breakthrough for people seeking emotional health and spiritual wellbeing.

Many people in recovery find that they feel spiritually grounded when in regular contact with the great outdoors. Others feel a deep serenity after lighting a candle in a church or temple or by chanting a sacred mantra. The point is that, unlike a typical religion that lays out a non-negotiable ideology, spirituality is expansive and deeply personal.

Are our lives like car-worn ruts In the face of the ground Created through habitual use And so set in place that they dictate An unalterable course of drudgery, Complaints, and same 'ol same 'ol, Which if bucked threatens our security? That is one long sentence, isn't it? You can change it.

The best path is to have no path.

Self is the source of all courage and self is the source of all weakness. Self is the source of all joy and self is the source of all sorrows. That very self can make this world a beautiful place and that very self can also make this world a miserable place. The only thing that distinguishes the one from the other, is your intention.

Compassion is a quality in those who are able to understand beyond right and wrong.

There is a link between living an unauthentic life and depression.

Only those who are compassionate toward themselves can be compassionate toward others.

When seeing life for what it is becomes more important than seeing it your way, you’ll finally understand what “courage” means.

I have been confused. I have been hurt. I have been depressed. But never believed these states defined the “real” me.

I believe that the heart is the master of our lives, the mind our powerful servant, and the body the bridge between them.

Physical adoration has driven many of us away from our unique and true gifts. Some of us have become so obsessed with a fit body, or so ashamed for not having one, that unnecessary suffering alongside exercise has grown to be part of our lifestyle.

In the land of liberty, the self and others are all one all-pervading system of magnificent harmony, but what keeps most humans to live in that land, is non-acceptance of their own self, which is a form of denial of the self - therefore, the first step is acceptance of the self.