Self Development Quotes

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The source of all the problems in the world is ignorance - the limited view point or narrow mindedness or the conditioned state of mind. As the individual learn the fundamental truths of life and move up in the scale of life, to that extent his/her ignorance go away and become open/free.

Thomas Vazhakunnathu

We create our life moment by moment. Only those things that can match our inner vibrational frequency can come into our life.

Thomas Vazhakunnathu

Many do not have the courage to face the truth of life and instead dwell upon some delusions to escape it. Any such escapism is a major hurdle in spiritual development.

Thomas Vazhakunnathu

We become a master of something only when we know the truth of it. Similarly, when we know the truth of our soul and the oneness of the Universe then we are a Master of Life.

Thomas Vazhakunnathu

When we understand the mechanism of life then we can cooperate with it and live an abundant life.

Thomas Vazhakunnathu

When we change, our environment also has to change so as to be in alignment with what we are.

Thomas Vazhakunnathu

When we realize the truth that every creation is an individualized portion of the Creator and we are always one with It then we are ready to live in harmony.

Thomas Vazhakunnathu

Mind can comprehend things only at its particular level of vibration. As the mind become calm and quiet it can see and understand deeper things.

Thomas Vazhakunnathu

Spiritual Laws ensures that every entity will be at the exact place where it has earned the right to be, by all its previous thoughts, words and actions, including those of the previous lives.

Thomas Vazhakunnathu

Mind is not a product of brain rather an integral part of the soul, our eternal being. Those who understand this truth can think beyond the material reality and move to higher states of consciousness.

Thomas Vazhakunnathu

Our environment, including the physical body, reflect our inner state - what we are inwardly, our eternal nature. When we renew our mind and transform ourselves, our environment responds to this change automatically.

Thomas Vazhakunnathu

We know the truth of a matter when we are able to see and understand it. The truth does not change, only our perception of the truth changes depending on how clearly we see and how much we understand.

Thomas Vazhakunnathu

We have the free will to choose how we react to those stimuli every moment of our life and what we choose creates our destiny.

Thomas Vazhakunnathu

We should keep in mind that there are always more truths to know, and we will know more as we evolve. Being faithful to what we already know is the key that opens the door to higher truths.

Thomas Vazhakunnathu

The purpose of each incarnation is the transformation \ spiritual development of the individual. To the extent our day-to-day activities become harmonious with this purpose, that much peace and happiness we can experience

Thomas Vazhakunnathu

When we know our true nature, especially the functioning of the mind, we stop being judgmental and become an inspiration and support to others.

Thomas Vazhakunnathu

An individual being will go through lives and events in cycles on earth until it learns those specific lessons that it had come to learn in each incarnation.

Thomas Vazhakunnathu

Whether you practice a traditional religion or a universal version of spirituality, it is necessary to keep an open mind for learning and growing.

Thomas Vazhakunnathu

We are all born with extraordinary powers of imagination, intelligence, feeling, intuition, spirituality, and of physical and sensory awareness. (p.9)

Using your imagination means that you are using your most powerful tool of creation, manifestation and modification

If somebody asks me what enlightenment is, I say that it is simply recovering conscience.

Ilchi Lee

What is missing in our economic system is a central value that can encompass everything that can be transacted and used to assign the proper relative value to everything.

Ilchi Lee

Relatively speaking, science can provide reliable standards to verify truth in a physical, material sense, but values are not its strength. What one generation takes to be true is debunked and made obsolete by new discoveries.

Ilchi Lee

If we see our relationship to this planet in a wide perspective, one thing is clear: we belong to this planet, not the other way around.

Ilchi Lee

Rather than the kind of change that takes what we already have and augments it, like power to our cars and speed to our computers, I believe the kind of change we need now is a change of direction.

Ilchi Lee

Breathing well means breathing more slowly and deeply. Relax, feel your breathing, and breathe comfortably. Once aware, it naturally becomes deeper and slower.

Ilchi Lee

By becoming aware of how you eat your eating will become a rich experience blessed with tasteful flavor, joyful texture, a deep sense of gratitude, and pleasurable contentment.

Ilchi Lee

While sleeping, we’re free to be what we really are, nothing more, nothing less.

Ilchi Lee

Before you sleep, experience yourself as what you really are by recognizing the vast space inside you, and feeling the Energy-Consciousness, LifeParticles, overflowing through the space and through your body.

Ilchi Lee

There is much work to be done, and we are the ones privileged to do it.

Ilchi Lee

We did not - and could not - purchase Earth with money. We have just been granted temporary stewardship.

Ilchi Lee

We are currently too attached to our worldly toys, rather than to the lessons our playing could impart to further the maturity of our collective soul.

Ilchi Lee

Before we ask the cosmos for the power to have all our thoughts manifest, we need to train ourselves to become more aware, or mindful, of our thoughts, and think wisely enough to use this power for the benefit of all.

Ilchi Lee

Given that you desire to change things in your life much bigger than particles, how long do you maintain your observation and how much mental power do you invest in observing those things?

Ilchi Lee

Consciousness is part of our nature as sentient beings, but doesn’t mean we are aware at a particular moment. By perceiving our consciousness - becoming conscious of consciousness, we become aware.

Ilchi Lee

You know what awareness is only when you are aware. Awareness is the perception of your presence in the now.

Ilchi Lee

Awareness, when managed and directed, becomes attention. By turning into attention, awareness becomes localized, and attains a focal point. Because of this feature, attention has the power to direct energy.

Ilchi Lee

Attention has its most powerful expression in purposeful action.

Ilchi Lee

Thoughts become things? True, but that analysis is not complete - we need to add two more words: thoughts become things through energy.

Ilchi Lee

The best among us are not more gifted than the rest. They just take small steps each day as they march towards their biggest life.

Robin S. Sharma

Thoughts become things through action. The most powerful tool for creating changes in your life is attention and action. No action means no creation.

Ilchi Lee

Meditation is a powerful way to enhance your attention, develop your ability to think mindfully, and to use the unlimited creative potential of your mind.

Ilchi Lee

Action is something you do purposefully with attention. If you really want something, you will use as much energy for it, and you will use it through action.

Ilchi Lee

The universe likes change. All that appears solid and substantial is built on the shifting sands of ceaseless transformation on the quantum level. Ironically, that’s the one steady factor about the universe - it is always changing, which means our efforts to change are supported by the very nature of Life.

Ilchi Lee

The only thing you need to be present here and now is your breathing. When you feel your breath, your mind is with your body.

Ilchi Lee

When your breath is slow and deep, your mind calm, raise your hands and focus on your palms. You will feel the subtle energy that connects body and mind: LifeParticles.

Ilchi Lee

Be aware of your breathing and breathe naturally. This will lead you into unity with the great flow of Life, your true nature.

Ilchi Lee

The deeper and slower your breathing becomes, the more space you will create inside you. Eventually, it will become so big that all your thoughts and emotions look trivial in the vastness of your inner space.

Ilchi Lee

By attuning your breathing, you can become one with the natural rhythm of life that flows through you all the time.

Ilchi Lee

You are infinite intelligence, creativity and Energy-Consciousness which gives you the power and wisdom to attain fulfillment and completion in life.

Ilchi Lee

The moment you choose your vision, great confliction comes along. You have confliction even if you don't choose the vision. Our soul grows not by living life within a small confliction, but rather living with big conflictions inside a big vision. A soul with a vision can succeed.

Ilchi Lee

Some changes we can control, but we find that many things are inseparably wired into the life we share in local, national, and global communities. For example, the healthy lifestyle you are determined to live and take to be a personal choice of which you have control, is heavily influenced and limited by the culture and industries of the communities you belong to.

Ilchi Lee

Although we have refined our behavior over many centuries, the basic perception that we are individual beings, separate from the rest of the world, remains unchanged, and so how we relate to the world remains unchanged. Because separation is an illusion, control is also an illusion.

Ilchi Lee

How do we meditate? It is not thinking about the past or future. It starts with being present.

Ilchi Lee

The life I am experiencing, good or bad, is the collective result of the choices I have made, knowingly or unknowingly. When I accept this, I acknowledge that I have the power to create my destiny.

Ilchi Lee

Make your mind quiet of disturbing thoughts by focusing on subtle energy on your palms, inside your body and all around.

Ilchi Lee

When you experience being present, there is no separation between you and other things. If you feel separate, you are already out of the present and returned to your familiar land of names and concepts.

Ilchi Lee

The common factor in all our experiences is wakeful consciousness which turns what happens into an experience or a meaningful reality.

Ilchi Lee

Consciousness is not confined within an individual brain. Otherwise, how can it cause changes in the physical state of things outside the brain?

Ilchi Lee

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