Immanuel Kant Quotes

Every person, on coming to the knowledge of himself, is not only urged to seek God, but is also led as by the hand to find Him.

The final mystery is oneself... Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul.

An enlightened man had but one duty - to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope his way forward, no matter where it led.

I wish there were shortcuts to wisdom and self-knowledge: cuter abysses or three-day spa wilderness experiences. Sadly, it doesn't work that way. I so resent this.

Know thyself, for through thyself only thou canst know God.

You have to be an original individual; you have to find your innermost core on your own, with no guide, no guiding scriptures. It is a dark night, but with the intense fire of inquiry you are bound to come to the sunrise. Everybody who has burned with intense inquiry has found the sunrise. Others only believe. Those who believe are not religious, they are simply avoiding the great adventure of religion by believing.

It is evident that man never attains to a true self-knowledge until he has previously contemplated the face of God, and come down after such contemplation to look into himself.

Dig deep. Find your way to your soul.

Come to the Root of the Root of your Self

Sometimes when we awaken from the bad dream of disowning ourselves, we think that the sojourn to self-discovery is a new one. But it is an ancient quest.

What is realisation? Realisation is my conscious and constant sailing with my Inner Pilot in His Golden Boat towards the uncharted land, where sooner than at once beauty, divinity and Immortality seeds grow into the richest harvest.

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.

My appointed work is to awaken the divine nature that is within.

I saw Krishnamurti speak one time. And I thought, I'm not going to live here.

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.

Since 2005, I have been on a steadfast journey inward as a self-proclaimed Spirit Junkie. And I've never looked back.

Spirituality is not about looking up or down - it's about looking inward.

Gail Sheehy tells us that "the delights of self-discovery are always available." All Fools' Day is the perfect day to engrave this wisdom in our hearts.

The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else.

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

Life is finding yourself. It is a spirit development.

I want to learn from myself, want to be my student, want to get to know myself, the secret of Siddhartha.

I know of no other advice than this: Go within and scale the depths of your being from which your very life springs forth.