Top 140 Ilchi Lee Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Now is a time for change, a time to become the greatest version of yourself. And a time to to make your grandest vision of the world .”

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2. “You must believe you have limitless potential in order to manifest your genius fully. Tell yourself every day, “I am a genius,” and believe it.”

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3. “Your mind creates everything. Your conscious mind has much greater power than you can ever imagine. Your mind can create blessings or disasters, can heal or harm, can bring abundance or absence. It is up to your mind whether the world looks hopeful or hopeless.”

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4. “I believe in the goodness of fellow human beings. We have a true desire for greatness and genuine good intention to be helpful to others. That’s enough. Change is possible.”

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5. “We may not be able to create or control all of the events that impact our lives but we can create and control our responses to everything that we experience.”

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6. “The energy of life entering and leaving your body flows evenly throughout the universe. With that current, the mind of the cosmos communicates with all things.”

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7. “We live with many thoughts, emotions, and habits, but at the same time we have other eyes, another mind capable of watching all of these things. Those who practice self-cultivation find that mind; they live with it and they die with it.”

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8. “Life is a long journey meant for leaping beyond loneliness to find unchanging freedom and truth.”

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9. “The human brain represents the infinity opportunity our powers are endless if we understand, harness, and empower ourselves to look inside and educate ourselves on our potential.”

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10. “To see truth as truth, we don’t need a lot of study. It’s not complicated. What we need is pure observation. An open mind and fresh eyes will serve us well.”

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11. “The best way to become more creative is to create nothing. By this, I mean that you should return to zero point. Rid yourself of all the mental and emotional blocks that keep you from manifesting your full creative potential.”

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12. “When you find the absolute values, you are important to this world because you know what is important. Those who know what is truly important are helpful to this world, because they won’t put their personal concerns before what is important to all.”

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13. “Recalibration of the mind means clearing our perceptions and recovering our capacity for pure observation.”

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14. “People’s hearts color the heart of the earth and the earth colors the hearts of people.”

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15. “Change is the very nature of nature.”

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16. “Our exclusive dependence on rational thought and language has obscured our natural ability to sense the flow of energy.”

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17. “Truth is truth, not the explanations of Truth. Truth is a living, moving process. Truth is constantly undulating and vibrating. You can become one with the Truth, but you cannot adequately explain it.”

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18. “Choice is the doorway to our creative power. To unleash this power, we must begin from the state of beingness.”

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19. “Find your own rhythm, and confidently go with that rhythm. When you become one with the rhythm and flow of your own life, you will encounter the rhythm of the universe that bestows harmony and order upon all things: the pulse of the cosmos, Yullyeo.”

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20. “Your body is a flower that life let bloom...”

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21. “The umbilical cord is a precious lifeline that began in my primal mother and has come down to me.”

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22. “In order to be the master of your life, you must first recognize that you are the rightful master of your brain, its owner and operator.”

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23. “Even when it encounters an obstacle, flowing water always goes on its intended way. If it meets a rock, even if it parts, it goes around and around again and keeps flowing. If there is no path, it makes one.”

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24. “Create the temperature of your passion!”

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25. “Attention has its most powerful expression in purposeful action.”

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26. “The sensation of energy expands with increasing relaxation.”

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27. “Because we have a sense of completion within us, and because we have the will and desire to reach that state of completion, human beings have the potential for greatness and can become greater at any time.”

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28. “Observing is not just seeing. It is watching with attention.”

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29. “Dreams are reality that has not become true. However, in the hearts of some people, they have already come true. People whose dreams are already achieved in their hearts, and who can see that as they boldly throw themselves into it, have true courage.”

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30. “The key to meditation is to exist one hundred percent in the here and now.”

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31. “Believe in the life inside you, believe in the great and holy mind within you, and push forward with the dream you have chosen until you make it.”

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32. “The key to solving problems such as violence, discrimination, inequality, human rights violations, and environmental destruction is to be found not in systems or technology but in recovering empathy.”

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33. “Meditation is earnest prayer, and when prayer progresses, it becomes true meditation.”

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34. “Sit down comfortably. As you control your breathing, have your mind watch your body. And tell yourself, “It’s okay.” Then your soul will find rest, and your body, too, will find comfort and new strength.”

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35. “When we are aware that we are eternal beings, when we become enlightened to the fact that our life is something eternal that cannot be harmed by anything, then we have no attachments to the past of anxiety about the future and are able to focus on the present moment the now.”

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36. “When we stop dreaming and believing in our dream, we stop being human.”

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37. “It will be impossible for us to maintain the health of the organism called the earth unless we feel and care for other organisms as we do for ourselves – and unless we take action.”

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38. “Everyone has a “greatness within” to be of service and to benefit their family, friends, neighbors, their community and humanity. From that “Greatness,” the beautiful and holy intention to benefit all life springs forth. At that moment when you have heard your inner voice, what did you do? The moment you became aware of your greatness within, what did you do? Did you acknowledge and accept it? Or did you turn away from it?”

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39. “Death is a stage on which our souls can be completed. We must one day take the stage of death, which is already prepared for us. Will you crawl onto that stage, trembling in fear, or will you walk out into the spotlight with boldness and confidence?”

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40. “Even if certain suffering is in the future, you have to take the path that your real True Self wants. Until you take that path, your soul will feel its thirst forever.”

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41. “Peace of mind come when we let go of attachments.”

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42. “Everything in existence undergoes constant change. The things that surround us, even our selves are temporary manifestations of Ki energy.”

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43. “To take another breath, we must first exhale. When we have breathed out and emptied our lungs, we can breathe in again.”

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44. “Sedona is a apace of infinite creation in your heart, your greatest dream, and the most sacred moments of your life. And it is the power of your choice to choose hope even in the most difficult moments.”

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45. “If we follow the ancestral line of our umbilical cord from our mother, to her mother’s mother, her mother’s mother’s mother, and so on, eventually we will reach our primal mother – the one we all share.”

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46. “Now the choices you make are not about finding your path. Rather, they are choices to open the path you have found.”

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47. “Recalibration comes from experiencing Nothingness, opening our awareness to emptyness as the ultimate reality and our essential nature.”

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48. “Confucius said, “at 15 I set my heart on learning; at 30 I firmly took my stand; at 40 I had no delusions; at 50 I knew the mandate of heavan; at 60 my ear was attuned; at 70 I followed my heart’s desire without overstepping the boundaries of what was right.”

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49. “I existed before I received this body. I am the external and fundamental life energy of the universe.”

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50. “You can encounter the great life within you when you recover the zero point. When you encounter that great life, all limits created by the thoughts and emotions vanish and infinite creativity springs forth.”

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