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Top 25 Steve Hagen Quotes (2025 Update)

Steve Hagen Quote: “There’s nothing to prove, nothing to figure out, nothing to get, nothing to understand. When we finally stop explaining everything to ourselves, we may discover that in silence, complete understanding is already there.”

1. “There’s nothing to prove, nothing to figure out, nothing to get, nothing to understand. When we finally stop explaining everything to ourselves, we may discover that in silence, complete understanding is already there.”

— Steve Hagen

Steve Hagen Quote: “What makes human life – which is inseparable from this moment – so precious is its fleeting nature. And not that it doesn’t last but that it never returns again.”

2. “What makes human life – which is inseparable from this moment – so precious is its fleeting nature. And not that it doesn’t last but that it never returns again.”

— Steve Hagen

Steve Hagen Quote: “This will never come again.”

3. “This will never come again.”

— Steve Hagen

Steve Hagen Quote: “Nothing holds us back but our thoughts.”

4. “Nothing holds us back but our thoughts.”

— Steve Hagen

Steve Hagen Quote: “We can only be here. We can’t leave. We are always here.”

5. “We can only be here. We can’t leave. We are always here.”

— Steve Hagen

Steve Hagen Quote: “The only way we can be free in each moment is to become what each moment is.”

6. “The only way we can be free in each moment is to become what each moment is.”

— Steve Hagen

Steve Hagen Quote: “Your breath is a unique object to meditation because it resides right at the boundary between inside and outside, between you and the outside world.”

7. “Your breath is a unique object to meditation because it resides right at the boundary between inside and outside, between you and the outside world.”

— Steve Hagen

Steve Hagen Quote: “Good and bad aren’t absolutes. They are beliefs, judgements, ideas based on limited knowledge as well as on the inclinations of our minds.”

8. “Good and bad aren’t absolutes. They are beliefs, judgements, ideas based on limited knowledge as well as on the inclinations of our minds.”

— Steve Hagen

Steve Hagen Quote: “We’re never called on to do what hurts. We just do what hurts out of ignorance and habit. Once we see what we’re doing, we can stop.”

9. “We’re never called on to do what hurts. We just do what hurts out of ignorance and habit. Once we see what we’re doing, we can stop.”

— Steve Hagen

Steve Hagen Quote: “Each of you be a light unto yourself; betake yourself to no external refuge. Hold fast to the Truth. Look not for refuge to anyone beside yourself.”

10. “Each of you be a light unto yourself; betake yourself to no external refuge. Hold fast to the Truth. Look not for refuge to anyone beside yourself.”

— Steve Hagen

Steve Hagen Quote: “True freedom doesn’t lie in the maximization of choice, but, ironically, is most easily found in a life where there is little choice.”

11. “True freedom doesn’t lie in the maximization of choice, but, ironically, is most easily found in a life where there is little choice.”

— Steve Hagen

Steve Hagen Quote: “And here we are with our improved human world that we’ve spent a great deal of time and energy working on. We’ve improved the rivers and the lakes and the land and our society and our ways of living to the point where we now wonder if the human race will survive.”

12. “And here we are with our improved human world that we’ve spent a great deal of time and energy working on. We’ve improved the rivers and the lakes and the land and our society and our ways of living to the point where we now wonder if the human race will survive.”

— Steve Hagen

Steve Hagen Quote: “Belief is at best an educated, informed conjecture about Reality.”

13. “Belief is at best an educated, informed conjecture about Reality.”

— Steve Hagen

Steve Hagen Quote: “Socrates pointed out that we carry on as though death were the greatest of all calamities-yet, for all we know, it might be the greatest of all blessings. What are we going to call good? What are we going to call bad? Good or bad is never our choice, or even the issue.”

14. “Socrates pointed out that we carry on as though death were the greatest of all calamities-yet, for all we know, it might be the greatest of all blessings. What are we going to call good? What are we going to call bad? Good or bad is never our choice, or even the issue.”

— Steve Hagen

Steve Hagen Quote: “When we latch on to an identity, it is easy to take offense. But we offend ourselves. We lock ourselves into very rigid ways of seeing and thinking and feeling and reacting. It doesn’t have to be this way. The fact is, I’m not anything in particular. Nor are you. Nor is anyone.”

15. “When we latch on to an identity, it is easy to take offense. But we offend ourselves. We lock ourselves into very rigid ways of seeing and thinking and feeling and reacting. It doesn’t have to be this way. The fact is, I’m not anything in particular. Nor are you. Nor is anyone.”

— Steve Hagen

Steve Hagen Quote: “The impossibility of arriving at Truth by giving up your own authority and following the lights of others. Such a path will only lead to an opinion.”

16. “The impossibility of arriving at Truth by giving up your own authority and following the lights of others. Such a path will only lead to an opinion.”

— Steve Hagen

Steve Hagen Quote: “Whatever the world dishes up, we take it on – not on our own terms, but on the world’s.”

17. “Whatever the world dishes up, we take it on – not on our own terms, but on the world’s.”

— Steve Hagen

Steve Hagen Quote: “Normally, a view of the world is nothing more than a set of beliefs, a way to freeze the world in our minds. But this can never match Reality, simply because the world isn’t frozen. Nevertheless we carry on as though the way we’ve frozen it in our minds is the way it actually is.”

18. “Normally, a view of the world is nothing more than a set of beliefs, a way to freeze the world in our minds. But this can never match Reality, simply because the world isn’t frozen. Nevertheless we carry on as though the way we’ve frozen it in our minds is the way it actually is.”

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Steve Hagen Quote: “We’ve formed many a theory and belief, but as we look about the human world, it is clear that nobody actually knows what’s going on. Yet claims to Truth are being made at every hand, including the claim that there is no Truth.”

19. “We’ve formed many a theory and belief, but as we look about the human world, it is clear that nobody actually knows what’s going on. Yet claims to Truth are being made at every hand, including the claim that there is no Truth.”

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Steve Hagen Quote: “It’s called enlightenment. It’s nothing more or less than seeing things as they are rather than as we wish or believe them to be.”

20. “It’s called enlightenment. It’s nothing more or less than seeing things as they are rather than as we wish or believe them to be.”

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Steve Hagen Quote: “We have to realize what we are. The range of what is human is vast, ranging from the saintly to the monstrous. When we speak of other human beings as if they somehow do not belong to our species, we ignore the reality of our very nature.”

21. “We have to realize what we are. The range of what is human is vast, ranging from the saintly to the monstrous. When we speak of other human beings as if they somehow do not belong to our species, we ignore the reality of our very nature.”

— Steve Hagen

Steve Hagen Quote: “Socrates pointed out that we carry on as though death were the greatest of all calamities – yet, for all we know, it might be the greatest of all blessings.”

22. “Socrates pointed out that we carry on as though death were the greatest of all calamities – yet, for all we know, it might be the greatest of all blessings.”

— Steve Hagen

Steve Hagen Quote: “As we live out of such a mind, we become generous, with no sense of tolerance. We become patient, with no sense of putting up with anything. We become compassionate, with no sense of separation. And we become wise, with no sense of having to straighten anyone out.”

23. “As we live out of such a mind, we become generous, with no sense of tolerance. We become patient, with no sense of putting up with anything. We become compassionate, with no sense of separation. And we become wise, with no sense of having to straighten anyone out.”

— Steve Hagen

Steve Hagen Quote: “We determine what is good, what is bad, what ought to be, and what ought not to be- all out of our inclinations of mind. But we seldom recognize the total relativity- the total meaninglessness – of all our defining. We don’t see that it’s through our obsession with meaning that we create meaninglessness.”

24. “We determine what is good, what is bad, what ought to be, and what ought not to be- all out of our inclinations of mind. But we seldom recognize the total relativity- the total meaninglessness – of all our defining. We don’t see that it’s through our obsession with meaning that we create meaninglessness.”

— Steve Hagen

Steve Hagen Quote: “You want to not have any problems.”

25. “You want to not have any problems.”

— Steve Hagen

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