Nalini Nadkarni Quotes

People are people, and they want to know about their own experiences.

I believe there is a spirit within us, which we nurture based upon our efforts and what we bring to the world. But it doesn't come from the outside; it comes from the inside.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It's already there.

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

We saw in him what we seek in ourselves.

It's weird, the evolution of a person. You understand yourself, you understand your surroundings. Then, when you understand who came before you, once you understand that about yourself and the energy that you came to this planet with, you understand more about yourself.

My experience is that the universal is the personal. If you can get past your navel-gazing into the deepest part of yourself as a writer, you find everyone - we're all there.

A teacher cannot give you the truth The truth is already in you You only need to open yourself – body, mind and heart- so that his or her teachings will penetrate your own seeds of understanding and enlightenment If you let the words enter you, the soil and the seeds will do the rest of the work

Books simply help you to see what is already within your self. That's what enlightenment is all about.

You are meant to understand the nature of your inner self, and to manifest it outward.

When your ego is no more, only then will you know who you are.

The only journey is the one within.

It is important for you to know who you are and who you may become. It is more important than what you do, even as vital as your work is and will be.

I think most people are interested in our origins; once we understand, it might be easier to become the people we'd like to be. Or, better, become the people we think we already are.

The mystery at the center of 'Burial Rites' is not who killed whom on the night of March 13, 1828. It is the mystery each of us encounters: Can we every truly know another? Can we ever truly know ourselves?

One of the things that I've come to understand is that as I talk a lot about Picard, what I find is that I'm talking about myself.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

Spiritually, we're all on a path. I haven't declared of defined myself because as soon as you declare yourself you're identifying with a certain dogma.

I feel there's something about becoming a character that helps people understand themselves.

I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know.

Within ourselves, there are voices that provide us with all the answers that we need to heal our deepest wounds, to transcend our limitations, to overcome our obstacles or challenges, and to see where our soul is longing to go.

What is it in you that brings you to a spiritual teacher in the first place? It's not the spirit in you, since that is already enlightened, and has no need to seek. No, it is the ego in you that brings you to a teacher.

I'm trying to learn how to tap into the power of my own being. I know it sounds corny.