Gabrielle Bernstein Quotes

Our practice rather than being about killing the ego is about simply discovering our true nature.

The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.

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

Meditation isn't to disappear into the light. Meditation is to see all of what we are.

The only service you can do for anyone is to remind them of their true nature.

The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.

The Truth is inseparable from who you are. Yes, you are the Truth. If you look for it elsewhere, you will be deceived every time.

It's better to become who God created you to be than to try to promote yourself to become something you're not.

Realize your true nature. That is all there is to do. Know yourself as you are - infinite Spirit. That is practical religion. Everything else is impractical, for everything else will perish.

I've tried to become someone else for a while, only to discover that he, too, was me.

The true purpose of yoga is to discover that aspect of your being that can never be lost.

For me to be a saint means to be myself. Therefore the problem of sanctity and salvation is in fact the problem of finding out who I am and of discovering my true self.

Everything you want to be, you already are. You're simply on the path to discovering it.

The realization of our true substance and potential is the purpose of creation.

The ability to find sparks may be buried so deep in you that you stop believing there's a God. Until someone comes along, with so much light in her that you can't help but see your own, and when you're together,that light grows even brighter.

Without seeing the origin of light, the true form of one's Self, the ordinary man sees by the mind different things and is deluded.

What I believe is that we have this extraordinary spirit inside ourselves, which for me is our Buddha nature. I believe we are in the process of opening and getting closer and closer to our Buddha nature and stripping away all that is covering it. I don't think I'm going to end up meeting this one being up there or out there.

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 most strongly enforced of all known taboos is the taboo against knowing who or what you really are behind the mask of your apparently separate, independent, and isolated ego.

Realize thy Simple Self, Embrace thy Original Nature.

Take no notice of the ego and its activities, but see only the light behind.

The physical ego, the active consciousness in man, should uplift its body-identified self into unity with the soul, its true nature; it should not allow itself to remain mired in the lowly delusive strata of the senses and material entanglement.

What's in your soul is in your soul.

We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.

Ego is to the true self what a flashlight is to a spotlight.