Khalil Gibran Quotes

To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.

What is it worth to possess the riches of the world, when a man comes to face Eternity?

Your nature is the Buddha.

I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.

The ordinary surroundings of life which are esteemed by men (as their actions testify) to be the highest good, may be classed under the three heads — Riches, Fame, and the Pleasures of Sense: with these three the mind is so absorbed that it has little power to reflect on any different good.

Material things ain't nothing. You feel me? At the end of the day, it's who you is. You wasn't born with it; you gon' die without it.

Zazen is the ultimate practice. This is indeed the True Self. The Buddhadharma is not to be sought outside of this.

We must find out for ourselves that inside us is a god or goddess in embryo that wants to be born so that we can express our divinity.

Anybody who says that love is a hindrance on the path of self-realization is not a sage.

There is no mind to control if you realise the self. The mind having vanished, the self shines forth. In the realised man, the mind may be active or inactive, the self remains for him.

Self-realization is the object of the Gita, as it is of all scriptures.

Our identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are.

Gold thou mayst safely touch; but if it stick Unto thy hands, it woundeth to the quick.

The gift of Truthovercomes all gifts.The joy of Truthovercomes all pleasures.The taste of Truthovercomes all sweetness.

All the great teachers have left a similar message: Go within, discover your invisible higher self and know God as the love that is within you.

We loosely talk of Self-realization, for lack of a better term. But how can one realize that which alone is real? All we need to do is to give up our habit of regarding as real that which is unreal. All religious practices are meant solely to help us do this.

You are here for no other purpose than to realize your inner divinity and manifest your inner enlightenment.

Discover your undying Self and be immortal and happy.

Like the ocean is your god-self; It remains for ever undefiled. And like the ether it lifts but the winged. Even like the sun is your god-self; It knows not the ways of the mole nor seeks it the holes of the serpent. But your god-self does not dwell alone in your being. Much in you is still man, and much in you is not yet man, But a shapeless pigmy that walks asleep in the mist searching for its own awakening.

For human beings, the most daunting challenge is to become fully human. For to become fully human is to become fully divine.

Self is the opaque veil that hides the Face of God from us. It can be removed only in spiritual experience, never by mere instruction.

The ego is nothing but condensed unawareness. When you become aware by and by that condensed unawareness we call 'ego' disappears. Just as if you bring a lamp into the room - and the darkness disappears. Awareness is the lamp, the lamp we were talking about the first day. Be a lamp unto yourself.

We are aspects of Divinity, in the process of knowing ourselves experientially.

Where riches hold the dominion of the heart, God has lost His authority.

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.