Quotes About Authenticity

You playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightening about shrinking so others won't feel insecure around you. As you let your own light shine, you indirectly give others permission to do the same.

You've done the bourgeois thing, perhaps, but let's not call that love.

We were taught that things like grades, being good enough, money, and doing things the right way, are more important than love.

Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people will not feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone, and as we let our light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Grandiosity is always a cover for despair.

It is an act of gracious generosity to accept a person based on what we know to be the truth about them, regardless of whether or not they are in touch with that truth themselves.

The more room you give yourself to express your true thoughts and feelings, the more room there is for your wisdom to emerge.

The heart's transformation is not attained through the mind—it's attained through surrender, authenticity, forgiveness, faith, honesty, acceptance, vulnerability, humility, willingness, nonjudgment, and other characterological values that have to be learned and relearned continuously.

He reminds us that, in every situation, the love you've given is real, and the love you have received is real. Nothing else exists.

are meant to shine. Look at small children. They're all so unique before they start trying to be

Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists.

Eastern religions tell us that if we go for God, all that is not authentically ourselves will drop.

And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.

The "face of Christ" is the innocence and love behind the masks we all wear

Today I accept myself as I am.

Cuando nos aceptamos tal como somos, y en el lugar donde estamos, disponemos de mayor energía para entregársela a la vida. No perdemos tiempo intentando cambiar las cosas.

Until your knees finally hit the floor, you're just playing at life, and on some level you're scared because you know you're just playing. The moment of surrender is not when life is over. It's when it begins.

Deep down, the woman inside us is different from the one we show in the light of day. She is more authentically sexual, more glamorous, more glowing, and she knows more...She is afraid of being laughed at except when she is clearly desired. The whole world desires her actually, but doesn't usually let her know.

Dear God,        Please remove from me        All falsity and illusion,        That I might be a shining example        Of a person        Set free from fear.        Amen.

Jesus is his name. There's no point in pretending that his name is Herbert.

Few authers feel sufficiently themselves to make others ''feel

Par exemple, tu vois, là, tu crois que tu es en train de me parler, mais peut-être pas. Peut-être que tu imagines que tu me parles, et moi en vrai je ne t'écoute pas. Alors qu'on pourrait se parler directement de soi à soi. Tu vois, il vaut mieux rencontrer l'altérité, quitte à être malheureux, que rester dans sa petite sûreté personnelle. L'essentiel c'est d'avoir des failles. Pas sa petite conscience tranquille. (p154)

Be sure that you speak with unfeigned lips.

Just tell me what you saw this morning like in two ines. I saw a water glass on a brown tablecloth, and the light came through it in three places. No metaphor. And to resist a metaphor is very difficult because you have to actually endure the thing itself, which hurts us for some reason.