Self Realization Quotes

"When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll end up as the Pope.' Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso." "And obviously, from our own personal point of view, the principal challenge is a personal challenge." "When you make a choice and say, ‘Come hell or high water, I am going to be this,’ then you should not be surprised when you are that. It should not be something that is intoxicating or out of character because you have seen this moment for so long that—whe" "Love sometimes wants to do us a great favour: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out." "The source of now is here." "What is planted in each person’s soul will sprout." "I am not this hair, I am not this skin, I am the soul that lives within." "Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion." "You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop." "The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development." "We must know that we have been created for greater things, not just to be a number in the world, not just to go for diplomas and degrees, this work and that work. We have been created in order to love and to be loved."