Selected Quotes on finding the True Self from past and present teachers. Life affirming quotes on the self inquiry process that leads to awakening and liberation.
2. When there is more doubt, there
comes more love. A dawn of new life
stretches across the expanse of being,
a fresh sky in beautiful hues of love
that is ever renewing, ever alive,
reverberating in present awareness.
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Nearly all mankind is
more or less unhappy
because nearly all do
not know the true Self.
Real happiness abides
in Self-knowledge
alone. All else is
fleeting. To know one’s
Self is to be blissful
always.
Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi
What is the
True Self ?
4. He alone who has
realized the self in
the heart has
known the Truth.
Having
transcended the
dualities, he is
never perplexed.
What is Self
Realization ?
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Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi
5. It is only your
self-
identification
with your mind
that makes you
happy or
unhappy.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
What can make
me happy?
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6. Rebel against
your slavery to
your mind, see
your bonds as
self-created and
break the chains
of attachment
and revulsion.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
What can make
me happy?
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7. Liberation is not
an acquisition
but a matter of
courage, the
courage to
believe that you
are free already
and to act on it.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
What is
Liberation?
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8. Self is what gives
breath to Life.
You need not search
for It, It is Here.
You are That through
which you would
search. You are what
you are looking for!
And That is All it is.
Sri H. W. L. Poonja-Papaji
What is it I am
looking for?
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9. Trust your Heart.
Value its intuition.
Choose to let go of
fear, and to open
to the True and
you will awaken to
the freedom,
clarity and joy of
Being.
Mooji
What is the joy
of Being?
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10. Awareness is the
Unchanging,
in which all
arises and
is perceived as
an ephemeral
play.
Mooji
What is
Awareness ?
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11. Relinquish your
attachment to the
outcome. This means
giving up your rigid
attachment to a specific
result and living in the
wisdom of uncertainty.
It means enjoying
every moment in the
journey of your life, even
if you don’t know the
outcome.
Deepak Chopra
How can I deal
with uncertainty?
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12. Contemplation is
asking the right
questions.
Revelation is a creative
leap of insight that
comes from stillness,
Redemption is the
freedom that comes
from that knowledge,
Grace is the outcome.
Deepak Chopra
What Am I
Right Now?
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15. That pure consciousness
which is the reality, and
which shines without a
break, as "I AM" when
the mind becomes calm,
is the supreme bliss.
Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi