Paracelsus Quotes

Knowing yourself is to be rooted in Being, instead of lost in your mind.

He who looks without, dreams; he who looks within, awakes.

Only within yourself exists the other reality for which you long. I can give you nothing that has not already its being within yourself. I can throw open to you no picture gallery but your own soul.

Be thou a true yogi. A yogi who understands that everything he's looking for is really inside himself. Learn to live more in the Self.

To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.

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.

Meditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your highest self.

But deluded people don't realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.

When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.

Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority.

We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.

You can fool a lot of yourself but you can't fool the soul.

Focus your mind on what your Highest Self chooses to be.

When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself. When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world. Your innermost sense of self, of who you are, is inseparable from stillness. This is the I Am that is deeper than name and form.

Become aware of the silent witness that is observing the unfolding of all the external events of your life. This eternal presence is your true Self.

Meditation will drop all the masks. It is a search for the original face.

You are not your body; you are not your brain, not even your mind. You are Spirit. All you have to do is reawaken to the memory, to remember.

How can one become enlightened? One can, because one is enlightened - one just has to recognize the fact.

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

The part of you that is unhampered by illusion-the illusion of time, the illusion of powerlessness, the illusion of impossibility-i s waiting for you to slow down and open up so that it can speak to your consciousness. In some unguarded moment, you will hear its wildly improbable words and know that they are guiding you home.

Self-inquiry is the process and the goal also. 'I am' is the goal and the final reality. To hold to it with effort is self-inquiry. When spontaneous and natural it is realization.

The seat of Realization is within and the seeker cannot find it as an object outside him. That seat is bliss and is the core of all beings. Hence it is called the Heart.

The entire heavenly realm is within us, but to find it we have to relate to what's outside.

Realize thy Simple Self, Embrace thy Original Nature.