C. S. Lewis Quotes

When you give yourself away you find that a new and more real self has somehow been given to you.

All these years you've been searching and looking and trying to change things, trying to add thing onto yourself, trying to acquire things when you have been the source of everything to begin with. Everything you've been looking for has been within yourself you have been that. You then begin to surrender everything to yourself. You surrender all of your thoughts, all of your feelings, you surrender all of your desires, all of your wants to the Self. You pull it in all inwardly.

The only journey is the one within.

Hiddenness is the place of purification. In hiddenness we find our true selves.

Until you have given up yourself to Him, you will not have a real self.

Cut out the love of self, like an autumn lotus with thy hand!

By listening to your higher self, or Atman, you can return to the truth that's already inside of you and in the process change not only yourself, but the entire world, through positivity and love.

The finding of God is the coming to one's own self.

It is only by frequent deaths of ourselves and our self-centered desires that we can come to live more fully.

Dive deep into the chambers of your heart. Find out the real, infinite 'I'. Rest there peacefully for ever and become identical with the Supreme Self.

A man in the view of absolute goodness, adores, with total humility. Every step downward, is a step upward. The man who renounceshimself, comes to himself.

Renunciation, and renunciation alone, is the real secret, the Mulamantra, of all Realisation.

When we finally give up the struggle to find fulfillment "out there," we have nowhere to go but within. It is at this moment of total surrender that a new light begins to dawn.

The man who renounces himself, comes to himself.

Realize thy Simple Self, Embrace thy Original Nature.

Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work.

Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority.

Enlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity.

The road to enlightenment is paved with authenticity, not imitation.

A disciple said to him, "I am ready, in the quest for God , to give up anything: wealth, friends, family, country, life itself. What else can a person give up?" The Master calmly replied, "One's beliefs about God.

Meditation is simply a strange surgical method that cuts you away from all that is not yours and saves only that which is your authentic being.

Silence tells the seeker in us to love, to love himself. It tells us it is wrong to hate ourselves because of our imperfections. When the seeker loves himself, loves the Divine within himself, he eventually realises the Ultimate Truth.

The more we let God take us over, the more truly ourselves we become - because He made us. He invented us. He invented all the different people that you and I were intended to be. . .It is when I turn to Christ, when I give up myself to His personality, that I first begin to have a real personality of my own.

In order to have a peace that surpasses all understanding, you have to give up your right to understand

Find your true self. The old question, asked in many ages, "Who am I?" Once you figure out who am I, and you know who am I, then you have that knowledge of self.