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Our own private intuition is the catalyst for self-improvement and self-realization, because when it comes to making deep and lasting changes in one's personal life, it is only subjective experience, not facts, that registers as real. -- Penney Peirce
It turns out that our notions of what a 'self' is and how it might feel fulfilled have no more objective status than most of the rest of reality. It seems we make ourselves up as we go along. -- Maureen O'hara
Trying to pretend to oneself that a life of constant self frustration was in fact a great spiritual attainment. -- Alan W. Watts
It was psychobabbler Abraham Maslow who wrote of the phenomena of self-actualization. What Maslow failed to grasp is that reaching true self-actualization can only be ultimately achieved when you have your own brand of ammunition. -- Ted Nugent
Self Realization is the first encounter with reality. -- Nirmala Srivastava
Essential acts to master for self realisation;
Master the act of learning.
Master the act of writing.
Master the act of reading. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Self -developments helps you to set and achieve goals -- Sunday Adelaja
Self-awareness: the ability to realize what we are doing as we do it, and understand why we are doing it. -- Kelly Mcgonigal
Self-realization is the knowing in all parts of body, mind, and soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God; that you do not have to pray that it come to you; that God's omnipresence is your omnipresence; and that all that you need to do is improve your knowing. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
To explore what it would mean to live fully, sensually alive and passionately on purpose, I have to drop my preconceived ideas of who and what I am. -- Dawna Markova
Many people dedicate their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like, rather than actualizing themselves.
This difference between self-actualization and self-image actualization is very important. Most people live only for their image -- Bruce Lee
A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming. -- Madeleine L'engle
Self expression is a vital part of understanding life, and enjoying it to the full. -- Oliver Bowden
One of the salient facts of a self is that a person is constantly undergoing a series of actions in the immediacy of time that they must later reflect upon and synthesize new experiences, thoughts, feelings, and mental impression along with their latent memories into a collaborative sense of being. -- Kilroy J. Oldster
The true self, once discovered, is the source of creativity, intelligence and personal growth. No external solution has such power. -- Deepak Chopra
Self motivation leads to acceptance of thyself. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
In life, you don't get instant satisfaction. In life, you get to slog. You work. You grow. You take the long view. You fill the void with self-actualization. -- Amy Dickinson
Self-realization means to know truth through yourself, and not through others. By seeking God first, through Self-realization, all things-strength, power, prosperity, wisdom, health, and immortality-will be added unto you. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
Self-realization doesn't imply loss, gain, even transition; it's only a settling. The separate sounds on the beach, the birds, the waves, the wind. They all come together again, they blend, they harmonize. -- Frederick Lenz
Realizing your true self apart from the mind-created ego self is profoundly liberating, and when you do, suddenly the universe appears immensely blissful. -- Rajeev Kurapati
We talk about self-expression but need to pause and remember that self-expression requires a self to express ... -- Julia Cameron
Self-actualizing people - highly functioning people who live at extraordinary levels of awareness - train their minds to focus on what they intend to create and what they intend to manifest, and they won't let anybody change their mind. -- Wayne Dyer
Life is the constant process of self-creation. We constantly make and remake our personal version of the self. Personal introspection is critical to ascertain who we want to become by ascertaining what traits we wish to eradicate and what qualities we wish to embody. -- Kilroy J. Oldster
[I]nternalized experiences of selfhood are linked to autobiographical narratives, which are linked to biographies, legal testimonies, and medical case histories, which are linked to forms of therapy and theories of the subject. . . -- Anthony Kenny
The realization of the self is only possible if one is productive, if one can give birth to one's own potentialities. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The great wisdom traditions of the world all recognize that the main impediment to living a life of meaning is being self-absorbed. -- Barbara Brown Taylor
Man is not at peace with himself till he has become like unto God. The endeavour to reach this state is the supreme, the only ambition worth having. And this is self-realization. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Realisation is a matter of becoming conscious of that which is already realised. -- Wei Wu Wei
Self-percepts foster actions that generate information, as well as serve as a filtering mechanism for self-referent information in the self-maintaining process -- Albert Bandura
I'm trying to eliminate every vestige of my own personality, style, approach and get into somebody else's skin. Sometimes I feel I've accomplished it. But when I don't, I'm nobody at all, having left myself at home. -- Judy Holliday
Self dedication is a spiritual experience. -- Cesar Chavez
Realizing that nothing can last, that all is as dreamlike illusion ... -- Tilopa
unconscious self-love -- David Eagleman
Generally, people who are not self-realized are full of themselves. One who is self-realized sees that the whole world is full of one. -- Jaggi Vasudev
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) -- Gay Hendricks
Self-observation is the first step of inner unfolding. -- Amit Ray
Contacting and living from our True Self is the central task of personal growth. -- Charles L. Whitfield
Building a good relationship with ourselves is essential for inner fulfilment, especially when we run into a large reality gap. -- Russ Harris
When we experience the power of the Self, there is an absence of fear, there is no compulsion to control, and no struggle for approval or external power. -- Deepak Chopra
Learn to live without self-concern. For this you must know your own true being as indomitable, fearless, ever victorious. Once you know with absolute certainty that nothing can trouble you, you come to disregard your desires and fears, concepts and ideas and live by truth alone. -- Nisargadatta Maharaj
To realize the Self involves an action, it implies that there is something to realize, that there is time, a temporal world, and that Self is not yet realized, but will be realized by the actor through action. -- Frederick Lenz
When one is seized with a passion to understand one's self, one has to leave behind all normal life and habitual modes of thought. -- R.k. Narayan
The moment you understand yourself as the true Self, you find such peace and bliss that the impressions of the petty enjoyments you experienced before become as ordinary specks of light in front of the brilliant sun. -- Swami Satchidananda
The central idea of this book is that the self is a process, not a thing or an entity. The self isn't something outside experience, hidden either in the brain or in some immaterial realm. -- Evan Thompson
That wonderful and terribly frightening journey of self-discovery. That process of growth, of being an independent person, of learning who you are and what you want from life, is the real secret of life, happiness and beauty. -- Diane Von Furstenberg
The self-life manifests itself in self-indulgences, such as self-love, self-will, self-seeking, self-pride ... It takes self-denial to turn off the television and spend [time] in prayer ... and read the Scriptures ... the only object in life is that Christ may be honored. -- Billy Graham
By the inquiry 'Who am I?'.
The thought 'who am I?' will destroy all other thoughts,
and like the stick used for stirring the burning pyre, it will itself in the end get destroyed. Then, there will arise Self-realization. -- Ramana Maharshi
Self-discipline is a self-enlarging process. -- M. Scott Peck
The central premise of this book is that the Western psychological notion of what it means to have a self is flawed. -- Mark Epstein
Self-expression is something that you've crafted, something that you've found. You've practiced on that piano for hours, you didn't hang out with your buddies, you didn't go after the girls, you stayed in your own little geeky room or you wrote for hours. -- John Leguizamo
How can one learn to know oneself? Never by introspection, rather by action. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
I'm fascinated by what makes up a self, how one becomes a self, how much is it an answer to others and how much is it an essence of self. -- Rebecca Miller
The self is not a thing, but a process. -- Thomas Metzinger
The reality of en-masse inner transformation of human beings by self-realisation is the most revolutionary discovery of the present age. -- Nirmala Srivastava
Self-satisfaction is the ultimate thing one can achieve in life. -- Manish Pradhan
This is the process of mental analysis, sifting through the selves, sifting through your thoughts, practicing mindfulness, learning to control thought. -- Frederick Lenz
In the end one only experiences oneself. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
It's in giving yourself that you possess yourself -- Lou Andeas-Salome
The true goal of action is knowledge of the Self. -- Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa
For the optimal realization of our possibilities, we need to trust ourselves and we need to admire ourselves, and the trust and admiration need to be grounded in reality, not generated out of fantasy and self-delusion. -- Nathaniel Branden
The greatest achievement is self awareness. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
The power of self goes beyond words. Self confidence, self improvement, self esteem, self enhancement, self love ... Get yourself right first! -- Behdad Sami
Discover that we are capable of solitary joy and having experienced it, know that we have touched the core of self. -- Barbara Ascher
We have an obligation to ourselves to foster the environment that allows for our self-actualization. Rather than my gifts serving me, I must serve them. I want to be a steward of the best aspects of my character and assist them in their fulfillment through proper discipline and habits. -- Chris Matakas
We live with many thoughts, emotions, and habits, but at the same time we have other eyes, another mind capable of watching all of these things. Those who practice self-cultivation find that mind; they live with it and they die with it. -- Ilchi Lee
Self-Realisation. Soul recognition. The entering of Soul into the Soul Plane and there beholding Itself as pure Spirit. A state of seeing, knowing, and being. -- Harold Klemp
One has to get rid of the self. Once the self is thrown away, nothing is lacking. You start overflowing and blossoms start falling on you. -- Osho
A person becomes a real individual when he has set and accurately defined his goal -- Sunday Adelaja
Cultivating self-love is an odyssey with moments of difficulty and joy. It's an excursion into knowing ourselves, learning to accept and deal with what we discover... and struggling with our fear of allowing in a little madness to set us free. -- Bud Harris
To fully experience this life as a human being, we all need to connect with our desire to realize something larger than our individual selves. -- Thich Nhat Hanh
Living life instead of just thinking about it. -- David Levithan
Self-awareness is the key to find our uniqueness. The latter increases our chance to succeed in our personal, career, and business lives... -- Assegid Habtewold
Realization consists of getting rid of the false idea that one is not realized. -- Ramana Maharshi
Know this also to be one of the spiritual practices, a discipline for God - realisation. Its aim also is Self - realisation. -- Swami Vivekananda
Self-discovery is the process of learning about who you are as an individual, independent from your friends, family, employer, or nation. -- Scott Berkun
consciousness-raising. -- Richard Dawkins
My goal in this chapter and the next is to convince you that the conventional sense of self is an illusion - and that spirituality largely consists in realizing this, moment to moment. -- Sam Harris
It takes time to understand yourself, to go inside yourself and to question yourself and really take yourself to task. That's self-expression. -- John Leguizamo
Successful self-actualization can prevent inferiority complexes -- Sunday Adelaja
Person you want to be and assume that you are already that person. If this assumption is persisted in until it becomes your dominant feeling, the attainment of your ideal is inevitable. -- Neville Goddard
Another clue to finding true self and vocation: we must withdraw the negative projections we make on people and situations-projections that serve mainly to mask our fears about ourselves-and acknowledge and embrace our own liabilities and limits. -- Parker J. Palmer
Self-awareness is self adventure. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
The self is a repeatedly reconstructed biological state. -- Antonio R. Damasio
Most people don't form a self and then lead a life. They are called by a problem, and the self is constructed gradually by their calling. -- David Brooks
Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives -- Vernon Howard
Without self-expression, life lacks spontaneity and joy. Without service to others, it lacks meaning and purpose. -- Laurence Boldt
Inhabit ourselves that we may indeed do what we want to do. -- Mary Caroline Richards
Once you understand non-self, then the burden of life is gone. You'll be at peace with the world. When we see beyond self, we no longer cling to happiness and we can truly be happy. Learn to let go without struggle, simply let go, to be just as you are - no holding on, no attachment, free. -- Ajahn Chah
Understanding who you are within comes through self- awareness and self-education -- Sunday Adelaja
The self is ... a creation, the principal work of your life, the crafting of which makes everyone an artist. This unfinished work of becoming ends only when you do, if then, and the consequences live on. -- Rebecca Solnit
Self-awareness moves us beyond the old, well-worn pathways in the brain that support fixed, unconscious habits. -- Deepak Chopra
Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life. This is what makes us human. But it comes with a costly price: the wound of mortality. Our existence is forever shadowed by the knowledge that we will grow, blossom, and, inevitably, diminish and die. -- Irvin D. Yalom
Our self- development is all about cultivating the traits that we need to achieve our life purpose, success and to carry out our mission -- Sunday Adelaja
I think of the self-actualizing man not as an ordinary man with something added, but rather as the ordinary man with nothing taken away. The average man is a full human being with dampened and inhibited powers and capabilities. -- Abraham Maslow
Every person who comes into this world must make the decision as to what type of person they want to be. Establishing yourself once is not enough. It's an ongoing, constant effort to separate yourself from who you feel that you are, and from who you want to become. -- Ali Warren
Inside each of us dwells a more-perfect self waiting to unfold. It cries loudly for release, yet it is sometimes ignored. To answer its call, you must take time to listen. -- Debarra Mayo
The self is a perpetually recreated neurobiological state. -- Antonio Damasio
Very unconscious people experience their own ego through its reflection in others. When you realize that what you react to in others is also in you (and sometimes only in you), you begin to become aware of your own ego. -- Eckhart Tolle
Without understanding the process of the self, there is no bais for thought, there is no basis for right thinking. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Loving the self involves faith and trust and belief in who you are, and a willingness to take action upon it. -- Sanaya Roman
