Real Self Quotes

“At the beginning of our life, we may feel bare and helpless and gradually adorn ourselves with the most fanciful trappings, trying to be ‘someone else’. After erring and drifting, we eventually realize we want to discover ‘ourselves’, without any airbrushing, so as to meet our real self and not the one imposed on us. ("Lost the global story.")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Throughout our emotional odyssey in the unembellished narrative of our life, we may sense many alluring voices that are enticing us into a beguiling, seamless story. Our inner monologue, however, might start raising consequential questions about the scintillation of that story, about our vulnerability during the tempting process and the danger of losing our real self. The question may be asked, whether the lure might enlighten, weaken or destroy our living. While our interior monologue mostly listens to the wisdom of our experience and the guidance of our memory, it may happen that it prefers not to listen. In that event, however, unreason and passion will be calling all the shots. ( “Woman in progress” )”
― Erik Pevernagie

“In a world increasingly dominated by external validation such as fame, social media, or public recognition, we may acknowledge having misplaced our sense of worth in the eyes of others. Only by cultivating our own sense of intrinsic meaning and self-worth can we rediscover our real selves. ("Like a fallen star")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“That was with me for years--feeling I wasn't myself. And I do think I wasn't my real self then. Of course, I'm not sure there is such a thing as a real self. You could ransack your innards looking for the real you and never find it--slice yourself open and all you'll find is blood and muscle and bone.”
― Ryū Murakami, In the Miso Soup

“Brainpower is our inner genius that craves to radiate creativity, positivity, hope, and ideas for the greater good of our real self and the world.”
― Dr Prem Jagyasi

“We should always be ready to explore our positive and negative traits by evaluating our real self from time to time.”
― Dr Prem Jagyasi

“For the analyst it is a source of never-ending astonishment how comparatively well a person can function with the core of himself not participating.”
― Karen Horney, Neurosis and Human Growth: The Struggle Towards Self-Realization

“In spite of the horror, in spite of the
tragedy, in spite of the weeks of sleepless
nights, I'm finally alive. I'm not pretending.
I feel real. I'm not playing charades anymore. I wouldn't go back to the way I was for anything. I'm really like a different person. I'm where I am, and I'm making the most of it. I know I'm courageous now. I found out I had it in me to face this. — Barbara”
― Ellen Bass, The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse

“Deciding to actively heal is terrifying because it means opening up to hope. For many survivors, hope has brought only disappointment.
Although it is terrifying to say yes to yourself, it is also a tremendous relief when you finally stop and face your own demons.
There is something about looking terror in the face, and seeing your own reflection, that is strangely relieving. There is comfort in knowing that you don't have to pretend anymore, that you are going to do everything
within your power to heal. As one survivor
put it, "I know now that every time I accept
my past and respect where I am in the present, I am giving myself a future."
- The Courage to Heal”
― Ellen Bass, The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse

“The Shadow Life is real life but it can only be for those who don’t deny the truth about themselves, the world, and reality by becoming AWARE, cultivating unconditional ACCEPTANCE, and talking real ACTION.”
― Oli Anderson, Shadow Life: Freedom from Bullshit in an Unreal World

“Being yourself is the greatest gift you can give yourself and the world because the world needs more authentic and real souls.”
― Hiral Nagda

“The lesson? To respond to the unexpected and hurtful behavior of others with something more than a wipe of the glasses, to see it as a chance to expand our understanding, even if, as Proust warns is, 'when we discover the true lives of other people, the real world beneath the world of appearance, we get as many surprises as on visiting a house of plain exterior which is full of hidden treasures, torture-chambers or skeletons.”
― Alain de Botton, How Proust Can Change Your Life

“Right now you are in a scene in which the main character is reading these words. In the next moment, you may enter into some far away scene (Imagination). After sleeping, you move through many random scenes (Dreaming). So, you are not a fixed thing which enters in the body at birth and moves out at death. You are a thing which moves constantly from one scene to another, from one character to another.”
― Shunya

“You can't stay with your body even for a minute. You wander off in thoughts, imaginations and dreams.

So you are certainly not the body. To know who you are, ask yourself this: Are you coming to the same body after each trip outside?”
― Shunya

“The False Self constructs all sorts of layers of ego and angst and striving and foolishness, while the True Self, deep at the center of a person, waits for the time when the False Self will die and allow the real life to begin.”
― Vinita Hampton Wright, The Art of Spiritual Writing: How to Craft Prose That Engages and Inspires Your Readers

“Whether you know it or you don’t, whether you accept it or not, everything you do is about the reclamation of your own ‘soul’.”
― Oli Anderson, Shadow Life: Freedom from Bullshit in an Unreal World

“For some, their 'self-love' was really just a hell that felt numb; they'd made themselves so protected, so delicate, that like jail-cells their boundaries had become.”
― Criss Jami

“The equivalent of humans searching for their “real selves” is small cats chasing their tails. For it seems to me that there is no “real self”. We humans are ever-shifting, dynamic entities and not unchangeable, rigid selves. And even if there were a kind of centrum within us that we could call an “inner self”, we would never reach down to it, because of our natural biases about what we are and what our place in the world is. When we look in the mirror, we don’t see what we are, but we see what we want to be. Yet, as elusive as the search for self is, so clear is what we have to do on earth: to love and take care of each other. Life is too short and too miraculous to waste it on something other than love and joy!The equivalent of humans searching for their “real selves” is small cats chasing their tails. For I believe that there is no “real self”. We humans are ever-shifting, dynamic entities and not unchangeable, rigid selves. And even if there were a kind of centrum within us that we could call an “inner self”, we would never reach down to it, because of our natural biases about what we are and what our place in the world is. When we look in the mirror, we don’t see what we are, but we see what we want to be. Yet, as elusive as the search for self is, so clear is what we have to do on earth: to love and take care of each other. Life is too short and too miraculous to waste it on something other than love and joy!”
― Giannis Delimitsos

“Anyone who wants a Prakruti (relative self) that brings worldly benefits, they should worship Mataji,the goddess mother. And those who want Moksha [ultimate liberation] should worship the Soul [Real Self]. Those who want both should worship both.”
― Dada Bhagwan

“Things do not give unhappiness, ignorance (of one’s real Self) does.”
― Dada Bhagwan

“Worldly knowledge (laukik gnan) is understood through the intellect (buddhi). Knowledge of that which is beyond the world (alaukik gnan) cannot be understood through the intellect. That is understood through ‘Gnan’ [Knowledge of the Real Self].”
― Dada Bhagwan

“Our inherent form is as the absolute Self (Parmatma). How can one remain negligent like this? It is not worth remaining negligent in this world even for a moment.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Fault is of the Sufferer

“The one who misses out on remaining as the Self (Nischay), his worldly interactions (vyavahaar) can never really be ‘vyavahaar’.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Generation Gap

“Action without intention is action without direction. It is ineffective and lacking in credibility. It may also lack your basic integrity. Search for your principles within, always realizing that they are meant to define your presence in the world. Ask your heart and your intuition what would be your best presence in the world. Be ready for the answer and do not waiver in your desire to be your real self.”
― Michael G Sawaya

“Don't make life an illusion filled with fake, perceived, and ignorant self. Go out see the world as it is so you will see that it is not what you think it is, as you grow you will see that people have perceived your image, limited you with what they think you are not with what you actually are. don't worry it's the role you are assumed in their life but remember in your life you are the one who you are so arise, awake and conquer.”
― Aiyaz Uddin, Science Behind A Perfect Life

“Yes. I sometimes feel like that when I read the stories you write for the club magazine. You're always so lively and bright in your own stories.'
'Because that's a made-up world.' Orczy turned away from Agatha's gaze and smiled awkwardly. 'I'm not so good with reality. I'm not really very keen on my real self.”
― Yukito Ayatsuji, The Decagon House Murders

“Knowledge is knowing things as they really are, as differentiated from how they appear. Knowledge then is the ontological state.”
― Dr Janki Santoke, How Do You Know What You Know?: Manage Thoughts, Manage Life

“If you simply see the wave, it is impermanent.
If you look deep into it and you can find the ocean, it is eternal.

The eternal is not permanent, the eternal is beyond time.

'Permanent' means staying longer in time; but what does it matter whether you are a sannyasin for one day or one year or one thousands years - what does it matter? The impermanent is impermanent - one day, one year, one thousand years.

Seek something which is beyond time. Then once it is there you know: it has always been there, and it will be always there. The eternal is your innermost nature, SWABHAVA. It is your innermost being.”
― Osho

“The real ‘You’ is like a lake as smooth as glass but the world has conditioned you to identify with the things that disturb your peace.”
― Oli Anderson, Trust: A Manual for Becoming the Void, Building Flow, and Finding Peace

“From now on, they could never be strangers again.”
― Saekisan, The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten, Vol. 4