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Even after the Truth has been realised, there remains that strong, obstinate impression that one is still an ego - the agent…
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The treasure I have found cannot be described in words, the mind cannot conceive of it.
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There is sorrow in finitude. The Self is beyond time, space and objects. It is infinite and hence of the nature of…
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Each thing tends to move towards its own nature. I always desire happiness which is my true nature. My nature is never…
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Loud speech, profusion of words, and possessing skillfulness in expounding scriptures are merely for the enjoyment of the learned. They do not…
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When your last breath arrives, Grammar can do nothing.
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Who but the Atman is capable of removing the bonds of ignorance, passion and self-interested action?
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Like the appearance of silver in mother of pearl, the world seems real until the Self, the underlying reality, is realized.
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Give up identification with this mass of flesh as well as with what thinks it a mass. Both are intellectual imaginations. Recognise…
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Do not be proud of wealth, people, relations and friends, or youth. All these are snatched by time in the blink of…
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Do not look at anybody in terms of friend or foe, brother or cousin; do not fritter away your mental energies in…
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But the jiva [living being] is endowed with ego and his knowledge is limited, whereas Ishwar is without ego and is omniscient.
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In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does…
— Saint Basil
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To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
— Albert Camus
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The purpose of life is undoubtedly to know oneself. We cannot do it unless we learn to identify ourselves with all that…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Truth has no path. Truth is living and, therefore, changing. Awareness is without choice, without demand, without anxiety; in that state of…
— Bruce Lee
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To know oneself is to disbelieve utopia.
— Michael Novak
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To dance, above all, is to enter into the motions of life. It is an action, a movement, a process. The dance…
— Unknown Author
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It is wisdom to know others. It is enlightenment to know oneself.
— Laozi
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It is not only useless, it is harmful, to believe in oneself until one truly knows oneself. And to know oneself means…
— Sydney J. Harris
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To know oneself is to study oneself in action, which is relationship.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. To know oneself, one should assert…
— Albert Camus
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Is a little experience too much to pay for learning to know oneself?
— Carl Van Vechten
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It is truly strange how long it takes to get to know oneself. I am now sixty two years old, yet just…
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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