... if you seek wise sayings, then you will find them on this page. Since I believe that the greatest wisdom is knowledge of the self, the quotes on this page are focused on spiritual growth and self-realization. When you see yourself and begin to understand who you truly are, beyond the definitions placed on you, you awaken to the truth of life.

It is my greatest hope that these words will touch your heart and stir the sage within.

Copyright © 2006 by Laura Ramirez. All rights reserved.

Don't be satisfied with stories,
how things have gone with others.
Unfold your own myth.

~Rumi

Self realization is real religion, all the rest
is only preparation—hearing lectures, or
reading books, or researching, is merely
preparing the ground ...

~Vivekananda

We are here, charged with the task
of completing (one might say creating)
ourselves.

~William Cook

Create yourself anew by learning how to change your mind

A human being is part of the whole called
by us universe, a part limited in time and
space. We experience ourselves, our
thoughts and feelings as something
separate from the rest. A kind of optical
delusion of consciousness. This delusion
is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to
our personal desires and to affection for
a few persons nearest to us. Our task must
be to free ourselves from the prison by
widening our circle of compassion to
embrace all living creatures and the
whole of nature in its beauty. ... We
shall require a substantially new manner
of thinking if mankind is to survive.

~Albert Einstein

Words of Wisdom

It's never too late—in fiction or in life—
to revise.

~Nancy Thayer

Human life has been given to you for the
sole purpose of realizing the Self. If you
die without realizing the Self, your life has
been wasted.

~Annamalai Swami

No action is more fascinating that the
action of self-transformation. Nothing on
earth can compare with its drama or its
value.

~Vernon Howard

Learn the art of self transformation

Go within every day and find the
inner strength so that the world will
not blow your candle out.

~Katherine Dunham

Words of Wisdom

I will not die an unlived life.
I will not live in fear
of falling or catching fire.
I choose to inhabit my days,
to allow my living to open me,
to make me less afraid,
more accessible,
to loosen my heart
until it becomes a wing,
a torch, a promise.
I choose to risk my significance,
to live so that which came to me as seed
goes to the next as blossom,
and that which came to me as blossom,
goes on as fruit.

~Dawna Markova

The self is hidden in the deepest cave of
the heart.

~The Upanishads

Find that self and transform your life

Words of Wisdom Daily Faith Affirmation

Begin with loss and see how
the world contradicts you,
How the horizon implies that beyond it
the water is not empty
but full of ships
all docking at another island.

~Lynn Emanuel