Realization Quotes

Even amazing states of bliss, peace, clarity and spaciousness have nothing to do with awakening as these are just experiences coming and going in the impersonal awareness that you are.

In enlightenment, the seer and the seen disappear. Or, more accurately, are seen through as illusions. In reality, they were never there, apart from being concept and misunderstanding.

In order to know the Truth, you have to be out of your mind.

I live in the realm of love and light.

Being your own light ensures that you will never need another to pull you out of darkness again.

When you find out that there was never anything in the dark side to be afraid of … Nothing is left but to love.

We walk in the path of light.

Without deep darkness, we fail to appreciate the light.

The path of light is quest for knowledge.

The light within us gives power for good actions.

There is light within your soul. Let it shine.

Trusting the resolve in my heart is but a stepping stone to the future I now see clearly.

There was something in her eyes that made me trust her. Maybe it was because they held the same cynicism, the same world-weariness I saw in my own every morning when I looked at myself in the mirror.

[He] made me feel lonely, and being alone with another person is much worse than being alone all by yourself.

Falling in love is a kind of wonder.

She had died, I just never told her. So still, we walk, eat and sleep together, in fear one day she'll come to realize it.

Nothing in this universe is complex to understand than the universe itself. Everything else is as frugal as a cold wave.

Pray within. Stay within. Seek, find the Within. For, there's no heaven or hell or god anywhere but herein.

Anger-pride-deceit-greed are in the form of ‘discharge’. But if one does not have ‘knowledge of True Self’ (realization of the self), then he ‘charges’ new karmas within.

Seek and fulfil your divine purpose.

Those who are actively seeking enlightenment will not find it because the act of looking for it is the distraction from it.

The essence of death is discovered in the gap between one moment ceasing and another one beginning. That essence is the wakefulness that is our true nature.

Our lives are a divine expression no matter how messy and weird they may be. How much more meaningful can it get? The source is experiencing itself in form in a conscious, awake way.

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.

It is not you as the ego who moves through life, but that life flows before you, and you are the immutable awareness containing it all.

When it comes to love and loss, acceptance is never easy. We can't make someone see all we have to give, make them love us, or make them change. All we can do is move on and stop wasting time.

I have a RAGING SEA inside of me, trying to break free from ALL of me.

All my life I'd been a believing Christian. ... But that instant in the ER--the instant Annette [his wife] died--I seemed to feel my religious faith die

Life is the lover's responsibility.

What is yours is yours

The religion that I advocate, and so did the mortal humans known as Jesus, Buddha and Nanak, is the religion of love, compassion and self-realization.

I don’t want to take away anybody’s religion, but simply to make them see what religion really means.

Respect yourself and the whole world will respect you.

Life is always beautiful when we focus on the greatness of our God.

she drew me. But not who I see in the mirror. Nia saw the Oscar i keep hidden. And she put him on paper. Nobody sees the real me.

Learn to be true to yourself, and everything good will follow.

Education is acquisition of intellectual knowledge to be what we ought to be.

Make time daily for the development of your spiritual life.

Age is not specified by years, but how you feel and right now I am 99 year old

We fit the pieces of our life together in a pattern, but there is no image on the puzzlebox to guide us.

Wonder is a beautiful bliss.

No matter what the odds say, be even with who you truly are.

The spirit of divinity is the spirit of being.

Nothing else you want to do after all your dreams come true. You've become numb. You shouldn't have ever stopped dreaming.

If you wish for it, you can have it.

You ought to be curious and daring.

Life is a journey of realization, which often ends in that place where dreams never begin.

We nurture our own being by respecting all people and consciously working to mitigate the pain of the world.

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.

If you banish the dragons, you banish the heroes...