Morihei Ueshiba Quotes

As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha.

Nirvana is something within you. It is not an external reality. No god thunders down from the mountaintop. Just as the great mystics in the Christian, Jewish and Muslim faiths all discovered, God is within the self. God is virtually inseparable from ourselves.

One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.

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

Enlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity.

The final goal of all human endeavor is the development of the human soul.

All of us, at different times of life, are looking for answers. It happened to me a decade ago and led me to the path of wanting to know more. I read Osho, Sadhguru, Deepak Chopra, and Parmananda Yogi. I haven't found the ultimate answer. The journey is the answer.

When you find your place where you are, practice occurs, actualizing the fundamental point.

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

Our purpose is to grow up and become love

The best thing you can give is God consciousness. Manifest your own divinity first. The truth is there. It's right within us all. Understand what you are.

Enlightenment is not a complete remedy.

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

You find God the moment you realize that you don't need to seek God

Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.

He who knows himself is enlightened.

This is my spiritual journey through life, my way of making sense of the world. I don't need permission from anyone or accolades from anyone; it is completely internal.

Our greatest human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain.

Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own infinitude, and his infinitude is, in one sense, overcome.

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.

Everyone has a spirit that can be refined, a body that can be trained in some manner, a suitable path to follow. You are here to realize your inner divinity and manifest your innate enlightenment.

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

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

The deeper you get into Yoga you realize it is a spiritual practice. It's a journey I'm making. I'm heading that way.