Mason Cooley Quotes

Our own self-realization is the greatest service we can render the world.

What I realized was that CrossFit wasn't what defined me as a human being, it was the sacrifice that Christ made for me and all of us that defined who I was.

Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees.

There is no higher or lower goal. There is only one goal, Self-Realization.

If you wish to shine like day, burn up the night of self-existence. Dissolve in the Being who is everything.

There is no such thing as disappointment for those who continue to cherish the selflessness of which is born the noblest inner self. There is no such thing as failure for those who invest in the potentialities of the Ideal of the Soul.

Your own experience keeps taking you towards something. My book adds the hope that it's a better something.

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

The good news of suffering is that it brings us to the end of ourselves - a purpose it has certainly served in my life. It brings us to the place of honesty, which is the place of desperation, which is the place of faith, which is the place of freedom.

I am turning into the person I knew I would.

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

Sometimes I attract roles that are necessary either for personal growth or enlightenment.

One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Truth is not a matter of fact but a state of harmony with progress and hope. Enveloped only in its wings will we ever soar to the promise of our greater selves.

Now I know that this energy within me is seeking more than the mate or the profession or the religion - more even than pleasure or power or meaning. It is seeking more of me; or better, it is, thank God, releasing more of me.

Self-actualization is what educated existence is all about. For members of the educated class, life is one long graduate school. When they die, God meets them at the gates of heaven, totes up how many fields of self-expression they have mastered, and then hands them a divine diploma and lets them in.

Self-improveme nt is no more God's plan than self-salvation.

As we move toward our dreams, we move toward our divinity.

Remain true to yourself, but move ever upward toward greater consciousness and greater love! At the summit you will find yourselves united with all those who, from every direction, have made the same ascent. For everything that rises must converge.

By growing a spiritual practice, we are given all that we need.

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

Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.

How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization!

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