Self Quotes - Page 13

I always believed that If I’m not carrying at least a slight poetically painful crack in my heart I’ve been cheated by nature.

I know many people who believe in God, and I expected to find Him on my way to the South Pole if he exists. My religious experiences were very different however, [only] involving myself, nature and the universe.

When we first believe we think we can do it all; our passion is so strong. But after a time we start to learn that passion doesn't equal strength, and our sinful nature rears its ugly head.

There are many going afar to marvel at the heights of mountains, the mighty waves of the sea, the long courses of great rivers, the vastness of the ocean, the movements of the stars, yet they leave themselves unnoticed!

When my turn on the program comes, I am not nervous at all - because all this is happening out of time, out of space. I am, for a moment, a figure of my own fantasy, and I play my appointed role as if I were in the movies.

إن عقلكم و هواكم هما الدفة والشراع لنفسكم الماخرة عباب اليم

Purify your intentions, your inner being, your heart and be
sincere in your actions,’ he wrote. ‘God looks into your heart, not at your outer form. He looks at
what lies behind the clothes … He looks into your private sphere, not at your public show.

There's more than what the eye can see, the heart can love, and the brain can understand.

You wanted to believe that getting older, growing up, would change everything, transform you into the amazing person you were meant to be. But what if it didn't? What if you had to stay you forever?

I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor - to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself.

You can only get outside yourself by looking inside.

Doffing the ego's
safe glory, he finds
his naked reality.

The highest goal of spirituality is Self-realization, but what does that mean? It means to feel your Self as a living reality in this moment, and there is always only this moment. (10)

It is ourselves we encounter whenever we invent fictions.

I suspected once that any human life, however intricate and full it might be, consisted in reality of one moment: the moment when a man knows for all time who he is.

Then he realized: 'I, indeed, am this creation; for I have poured it forth from myself.' In that way he became this creation. And verily, he who knows this becomes in this creation a creator.

You are here on earth to unearth who on earth you are.

Like the appearance of silver in mother of pearl, the world seems real until the Self, the underlying reality, is realized.

When I fall in love, I manifest my true soul.

Love is that which gives of itself, not because anyone needs it or deserves it, but because that is what love does.