36 Self-Realization Quotes For Inspiration

In a fast-paced world brimming with distractions, the journey to self-realization can be both a challenging and rewarding endeavor. It invites us to reflect, recognize our true selves, and align our lives with our deepest values and aspirations. Quotes, with their succinct wisdom, have the power to guide and inspire us on this transformative path. Whether you’re seeking motivation to begin your journey or looking for words to resonate with your experiences, our curated collection of 36 self-realization quotes will provide a refreshing dose of inspiration. Dive in to explore insights from thinkers, philosophers, and spiritual leaders who have illuminated the way to personal awakening.

1. “I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.” - Annie Dillard

2. “Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.” - Rumi

3. “Keep your best wishes, close to your heart and watch what happens” - Tony DeLiso

4. “I can last two months on a good compliment.” - Mark Twain

5. “Life is obsession and so is reading :D” - Rukamanee Maharjan

6. “Your expectation of something unique and dramatic, of some wonderful explosion, is merely hindering and delaying your Self Realization. You are not to expect an explosion, for the explosion has already happened - at the moment when you were born, when you realized yourself as Being-Knowing-Feeling. There is only one mistake you are making: you take the inner for the outer and the outer for the inner. What is in you, you take to be outside you and what is outside, you take to be in you. The mind and feelings are external, but you take them to be intimate. You believe the world to be objective, while it is entirely a projection of your psyche. That is the basic confusion and no new explosion will set it right! You have to think yourself out of it. There is no other way.” - Nisargadatta Maharaj

7. “Some people walk through a hallway with covered mirrors– the hallway is lined with mirrors but there are blankets covering each of them. They go through life believing in an image of themselves that isn't real, and an image of themselves standing in the world and relative to the world, that isn't real. If you happen to be in that hallway and pull the blankets off the mirrors, they're going to think that you're hurting them; but they're actually just seeing their reflection for the first time. Sometimes the most horrendous thing a person can see, is all the hidden things inside them, the things they've covered, the things they choose not look at. And you're not hurting them, you're setting them free.” - C. JoyBell C.

8. “Question: You seem to advise me to be self-centered to the point ofegoism. Must I not yield even to my interest in other people?Maharaj: Your interest in others is egoistic, self-concerned, self-oriented. You are not interested in others as persons, but onlyas far as they enrich, or enoble your own image of yourself.And the ultimate in selfishness is to care only for the protection,preservation and multiplication of one's own body. By body Imean all that is related to your name and shape--- your family,tribe, country, race, etc. To be attached to one's name andshape is selfishness. A man who knows that he is neither bodynor mind cannot be selfish, for he has nothing to be selfish for.Or, you may say, he is equally 'selfish' on behalf of everybodyhe meets; everybody's welfare is his own. The feeling 'I am theworld, the world is myself' becomes quite natural; once it is es-tablished, there is just no way of being selfish. To be selfishmeans to covet, to acquire, accumulate on behalf of the partagainst the whole. I Am ThatNisargadatta Maharaj” - Nisargadatta Maharaj

9. “Pursue your goal. Opinions be damned.” - Stacy Verdick Case

10. “When life gives you lemons, use Cosmic Ordering!” - Stephen Richards

11. “Whatever your desire, use Cosmic Ordering to get what you require!” - Stephen Richards

12. “In the beginning man was poor, then along came Cosmic Ordering.” - Stephen Richards

13. “Human beings are incredibly slow, Cosmic Ordering is incredibly fast!” - Stephen Richards

14. “Twenty years from now you will be disappointed you never used Cosmic Ordering today.” - Stephen Richards

15. “Everybody talks about being rich, Cosmic Ordering does something about it.” - Stephen Richards

16. “A man may fail many times, and then he turns to Cosmic Ordering.” - Stephen Richards

17. “Often the only difference between success and failure is not using Cosmic Ordering.” - Stephen Richards

18. “To fail is nothing, unless you continue to ignore Cosmic Ordering.” - Stephen Richards

19. “Whatever you are seeking is also seeking you.” - Shakti Sharan

20. “I'm afraid to go into myself and see what's going on in there.” - Muriel Barbery

21. “While there are many that journey who seek, not all that travel will find, for they are bound by what they have been taught and not of what they know.”- The Tapestry of Spirit” - Erik Paul Rocklin

22. “Willful blindness sees no end of damage done.” - Stephen Richards

23. “The only real conflict you will ever have in your life won’t be with others, but with yourself.” - Shannon L. Alder

24. “What makes the self?Experiences. Acculturation.What else?I don't know.What's within you.She says, I don't know what was within me and what got put there by my life as it was lived.You can never know that.No.But there is a you that was there before you were born and that nobody shaped or changed or could have changed.” - Carolina De Robertis

25. “Saya melihat tumor itu semacam pemicu untuk saya mencari lebih dalam, mempertemukan saya dengan lebih banyak pengetahuan, membuka mata saya bahwa penyakit bukan sekadar gangguan. Tapi kode. Kode dari tubuh bahwa ada hal dalam hidup kita yang harus dibereskan.” - Dee

26. “A strong man cannot help a weaker unless the weaker is willing to be helped, and even then the weak man must become strong of himself; he must, by his own efforts, develop the strength which he admires in another. None but himself can alter his condition.” - James Allen

27. “To control your life, control your mind. To control your mind, control your breath.” - Stephen Richards

28. “Stop harboring grudges against those who have wronged you, it just holds you back when you really want to be in the NOW.” - Stephen Richards

29. “While you'll feel compelled to charge forward it's often a gentle step back that will reveal to you where you and what you truly seek.” - Rasheed Ogunlaru

30. “A psychic reading is not just about career opportunities, good fortune or meeting tall, dark strangers. It is a sacred portal to manifesting your true destiny.” - Anthon St. Maarten

31. “Our mind takes an inventory of past events and uses them to project the probability of success in the future. Depending on the information it gathers, we either move forward—or thefear response is triggered and forward progress is circumvented. Page 48” - Nick Ortner

32. “Confidence is a life ingredient that is essential to success and wholeness. It is perhaps the single most important trait that enables seemingly average people to do and become all that they can. And the good news is – it can be learned. No one has to suffer a lifetime of low confidence.” - Steve Goodier

33. “He hadn't meant to get so angry at Morgan. He didn't often get angry at other people. There was no sense in it. The person you were angry at was rarely ever repentant. Now, getting angry with yourself had some merit. It showed you had sense enough to chastise the one person who had any hope of benefiting from it. And he was plenty angry with himself. For many things.” - Sarah Addison Allen

34. “Run and hide or rise and shine ...” - Stephen Richards

35. “There's a way, a way way too long but reachable, not for everyone a way but possible... Go and don't lose your way!” - Rossana Condoleo

36. “We must become reacquainted with our true human selves.” - Bryant McGill