"O SON OF SPIRIT! I created thee rich, why dost thou bring thyself down to poverty? Noble I made thee, wherewith dost thou abase thyself? Out of the essence of knowledge I gave thee being, why seekest thou enlightenment from anyone beside Me? Out of the clay of love I molded thee, how dost thou busy thyself with another? Turn thy sight unto thyself, that thou mayest find Me standing within thee, mighty, powerful and self-subsisting."Baha'i Faith
Baha'u'llah
The Hidden Words, Arabic #13If you think the Law is outside yourself, you are embracing not the absolute Law but some inferior teaching.
Buddhism
Maja writings of Nichinen Daishonion
Vol. 1, pg.3-5
The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there?! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.Christianity
Luke 17:20
King James Version
The Superior Man seeks within himself. The inferior man seeks within others.Confucianism
Analects 15:20
Bright but hidden, the Self dwells in the heart.
Everything that moves, breathes, opens, and closes
Lives in the Self. He is the source of love
And may be known through love but not through thought.
He is the goal of life. Attain this goal!
The shining Self dwells hidden in the heart.
Everything in the cosmos, great and small,
Lives in the Self. He is the source of life,
Truth beyond the transience of this world.
He is the goal of life. Attain this goal!
Hinduism
Mundaka Upanishad 2.2.1-2
The deity is immanent in man and man is inherent in the deity; there is neither the divine nor the human; there is no difference in essence at all between them.
Shintoism
This is a wonderful, unique discourse:
The living self is the image of the Supreme Being.
It is neither old nor a child;
Neither it suffers pain, nor in death's snare is caught;
It is not shattered nor dies;
In all time it is pervasive.
It feels not heat nor cold;
Neither has it friend nor foe;
It feels not joy nor sorrow:
All is its own; to it belongs all might.
It has neither father nor mother;
Beyond the limits of matter has it ever existed.
Of sin and goodness it feels not the touch--
Within the heart of each being it is ever awake.Sikhism
Adi Granth, Gaund, M.5, p. 868
