“There is no one to change but self; that self is simply your awareness, your consciousness

There is nothing to change but our concept of self.

There is no one to change but self. All you need do to make men and women holy in this world is to make yourself holy.

To attempt to change the world before we change our concept of ourselves is to struggle against the nature of things.

show you that you have no one to change but self

Now I know I cannot change another unless I first change myself.

You will change the world only when you become the embodiment of that which you want the world to be.

I could never see it perfect until I myself become perfect

We must become the thing that we want others to be or we will never see them be it.

You are already that which you seek and you have no one to change but Self in order to express it.

My mystical experiences have convinced me that there is no way to bring about the perfection we seek other than by the transformation of ourselves.

we must begin at the very beginning with our own individual regeneration

The essential revolution must happen within ourselves.

The day a man achieves victory over himself, history will discover that to have been a victory over his enemy.

If man does not know that he himself is the earth spoken of, he thinks he must go out into the world and conquer it. The world reflects the work done on man.

He has to start with self and then he will see this outer wonderful world

When man begins to awake he sees everything subjectively related; everything he meets is part of himself

any changes desired in the outer world can be brought about only if I change the source of the thing I see growing in my world

If I hope to see changes there before I myself will start the change on the inside, the chances are I will hope in vain.

You persuade yourself of the changes you desire expressed in her.

You will produce in him the change of heart because you first produced it in yourself

If you change, everything will change.

Any change in the drama must take place within him and not them, so he never appeals to one on the outside to change.

You cannot appeal to the actress to change, they cannot even hear you. Any change in the script must take place where it first originated, not here.

If someone offends you, change your concept of self. That is the only way others change.

there is no one in my world I need change but myself, so that I don’t need to change you as an individual but I do need to change my attitude towards you

but she was locked out by herself for two years

When you look at him and you are displeased, look within and you will find the source of the displeasure. It did not originate there.

for if this is the truth, then there is no one to change, no one to make whole, no one to purify but self

He said, “Neville, you must first start with self.

Any attempt to change the outer world before he changes the inner structure of his mind, is to labour in vain.

I start with the self, having discovered, and start with change of that self.

For the only field of activity for man is within himself and on himself. You do not work on the other. The day you change self, that day you change your world.

For this reason, I have always preached self-help, knowing that if we strive passionately after this kind of self-help, that is, to embody a new and higher concept of ourselves, then all other kinds of help will be at our service.