Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

A complete fast is a complete and literal denial of self. It is the truest prayer.

O Lord, self-renunciation is not the work of one day, nor children's sport; yea, rather in this word is included all perfection.

The great solution to all human problems is individual inner transformation.

When we die to something, something comes alive within us. If we die to self, charity comes alive; if we die to pride, service comes alive; if we die to lust, reverence for personality comes alive; if we die to anger, love comes alive.

Humility and self-restraint is the True Objective of Kenpo

Self-denial does not belong to religion as characteristic of it; it belongs to human life; the lower nature must always be denied when you are trying to rise to a higher sphere.

God does work through both pure and impure vessels but that does not mean that one should keep nature impure for ever. When the vessel will become pure the urge for action coming from within will be a flawless, definitive action. As long as that does not happen one has to minimize one's activities.

Your lower self sees you as the center of the universe- your higher self sees you as a cell in the body of humanity.

Some form of self-discipline is necessary to transmute material desires into spiritual aspirations.

Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself. Self-transformation and the transformation of others have constituted the radical interest of our century, whether in painting, psychiatry, or political action.

There is more security in self-denial, mortification, and other like virtues, than in an abundance of tears.

Stay in the spiritual fire. Let it cook you.

Discipleship is the pursuit of holiness and happiness. It is the path to our best and happiest self.

When an ecstatic is asked the question, What is it that love dares the self to do? she will answer: Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.

The greatest of all crosses is self. If we die in part every day, we shall have but little to do on the last. These little daily deaths will destroy the power of the final dying.

Doubtless the world is wicked enough; but it will not be improved by the extension of a spirit which self-righteously sees more to reform outside of itself than in itself.

Ridicule is often harder to bear than self-denial.

Every time I deny myself I commit a kind of suicide.

The act of self-denial seems to confer on us the right to be harsh and merciless toward others.

To reach perfection, we must all pass, one by one, through the death of self-effacement.

Nothing of spiritual significance comes without sacrifice. Your spirituality will always be measured by the size of your sacrifice.

Perhaps the best place to begin with an integral approach to business is with.. oneself. In the Big Three of self, culture, and world, integral mastery starts with self. How do body and mind and spirit operate in me? How does that necessarily impact my role in the world of business? And how can I become more conscious of these already operating realities in myself and in others?

Solitude is the furnace of transformation. Without solitude we remain victims of our society and continue to be entangled in the illusions of the false self.

Wanting to reform the world without discovering one's true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes.

Making conclusions about life is a sure way to deny yourself the possibility of a human being transforming himself into the Divine.