Quotes about Self-realization

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!

Confused to find that the power of the presidency had limitations, he came to see the limitations as his own

To begin with, you have to grasp the fact that Christian virtue isn't about you—your happiness, your fulfillment, your self-realization. It's about God and God's kingdom, and your discovery of a genuine human existence by the paradoxical route—the route God himself took in Jesus Christ!—of giving yourself away, of generous love which constantly refuses to take center stage.

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

A saint is not to take the initiative toward self-realization, but toward knowing Jesus Christ. A spiritually vigorous saint never believes that his circumstances simply happen at random, nor does he ever think of his life as being divided into the secular and the sacred. He sees every situation in which he finds himself as the means of obtaining a greater knowledge of Jesus Christ, and he has an attitude of unrestrained abandon and total surrender about him.

Self-realization only leads to the glorification of good works, whereas a saint of God glorifies Jesus Christ through his good works.

The aim of a spiritually vigorous saint is "that I may know Him." Do I know Him where I am today? If not, I am failing Him. I am not here for self-realization, but to know Jesus Christ. In Christian work our initiative and motivation are too often simply the result of realizing that there is work to be done and that we must do it. Yet that is never the attitude of a spiritually vigorous saint. His aim is to achieve the realization of Jesus Christ in every set of circumstances.

Jesus bases everything on God-realization, while other teachers base everything on self-realization.

I said "Somebody should do something about that." Then I realized I am somebody.

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

Jennings, barely listening to the little girls' chatter, sat amazed at the way life continued. He was not the same person.