Quotes About Authenticity

Personal meaning must be created, not accepted, and the process of creating it requires testing and experimentation. A false self will neither test nor experiment; it is a defense against experimenting.

A basic rule of life for reporters is that you should spend your time talking with and learning about people who are not sending you press releases, rather than those who are.

You mean how do I know you are who you say you are?" Merle shrugged. "How do you know anybody is who they say they are?" She shook her head. "We lie to ourselves about who we see, we lie to ourselves about who we are. Then we buy our own lies and try to spend them as our lives.

There are only two types of people who can be totally honest with each other, lovers and strangers. Everyone else is just negotiating.

This book extends some original implications of mindfulness. It explores the many positive, helpful subconscious aspects of remindfulness. It suggests ways that long-term meditative retraining can help cultivate hidden, affirmative resources of our subconscious memories. Accessing these subtle processes of transformation can enable us to adapt more effectively and to live more authentic lives. To

We do this basically for ourselves. People appreciate it, which is cool, but I think they appreciate that we're doing it for ourselves. We're doing it our way, and how people like it is not up to us. We like it.

As most real writers do, he wrote because he had something to say, not because of any specific ambition to be a writer.

We are not here to fit in, be well balanced, or provide exempla for others. We are here to be eccentric, different, perhaps strange, perhaps merely to add our small piece, our little clunky, chunky selves, to the great mosaic of being. As the gods intended, we are here to become more and more ourselves.

To become a person does not necessarily mean to be well adjusted, well adapted, approved of by others. It means to become who you are. We are meant to become more eccentric, more peculiar, more odd. We are not meant just to fit in. We are here to be different. We are here to be the individual.

The goal of individuation is wholeness, as much as we can accomplish, not the triumph of the ego.

Who do you see when you think of you? Are you an outsider, Cool, distant, angry, swimming against the current, or are you in the flow? When they tell you, This is who you are, do you say yes or no? Who do you see when you look beyond the skin and the surface, when you drift to sleep, when you are the person no one else knows? Who are you on the inside? Don't answer these questions. Not yet. First, open your eyes, your mind, your heart. See.

He had not the makings of that honest man to whom success comes naturally.

I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defense the only arms I allow myself to use --silence, exile and cunning.

I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it calls itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defense the only arms I allow myself to use -- silence, exile, and cunning.

are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Vuestro tiempo es limitado —dijo Steve Jobs en su famoso discurso en Stanford en 2005—, no os quedéis atrapados en el dogma… Y, lo más importante, tened la valentía de seguir vuestro corazón y vuestra intuición. De alguna manera, ellos ya saben en lo que os queréis convertir. Todo lo demás es secundario.»

Most leaders who fail,' Bill George says in an interview with Pamela Hawley, 'really suffer from a lack of a strong identity, belief in themselves and, to be frank, respect for themselves.

for love cometh of the heart and not by constraint." "That is true," said the king; "for love is free.

Be yourself, no one can ever tell you you're doing it wrong.

One needn't worry about turning heads if keeping one's own was a matter left unresolved.

If your writing doesn't keep you up at night, it won't keep anyone else up either

WHO ARE YOU?" This is the first question your constituents want you to answer for them. Your leadership journey begins when you set out to find the answer and are able to express it.

When we ask people what they want in church instead of giving them what they were created to long for, we play in the very idolatry that church was created to dismantle.

Revival is not emotional extravagance where people are caught up in the moment and fall down, act bizarrely, unbiblically, and out of control. That's not revival.