Quotes about Self-realization

When I retired first time around, injury had beaten me, and I hated that. Now I realise I'm no longer good enough. And I can handle that. It's fine that I'm not good enough.

Romola had had contact with no mind that could stir the larger possibilities of her nature; they lay folded and crushed like embryonic wings, making no element in her consciousness beyond an occasional vague uneasiness.

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

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

Every time you suppress some part of yourself or allow others to play you small, you are in essence ignoring the owner's manual your creator gave you and destroying your design.

There was no active, conscious decision-making point, just a gradual realization over time that I'm very happy minus children and marriage.

That's the greatest miracle, and ultimately the only one: that you awaken from the dream of separation and become a different kind of person. People are constantly concerning themselves with what they do: have I achieved enough, written the greatest screenplay, formed the most powerful company? But the world will not be saved by another great novel, great movie, or great business venture. It will only be saved by the appearance of great people.

Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.

The difference between those people living their potential and those who don't, is not the amount of potential itself, but the amount of permission they give themselves to live in the present

The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.

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

We may experience a realization of our true Self the first time we meditate, but most often the process of awakening is gradual.