Quotes About Authenticity

To love is, first of all, to accept ourselves as we are.

Although different from Indian Buddhism from the standpoint of form and practice, in the end Zen seems to be more authentic than many other Buddhist schools. In particular, Zen emphasizes the necessity of practice aiming at enlightenment which is the very foundation of Buddhism.

The third door is aimlessness. We already are what we want to become. We don't have to become someone else.

Master Linji used language that was particularly harsh and strong to remind the monks in clear terms that the only role of a practitioner is to live simply, as an ordinary person, and not to put on airs. This is still a fundamental challenge for us today.

Without the qualities of solidity, freedom, peace, and joy, fine manners are not really fine manners. They are just a camouflage called false Zen (a false sign of meditation practice).

Often, we live a life of compromise so that there's peace in the house. We buy a small peace so that we can get through the day. And if we live like that then we aren't a great person, but a cracked vase, unable to contain the rice soup.

If we are still seeking or pursuing something else, something more, we're not yet aimless. We're not yet free, and we're not yet our true self. Our true self is already there within us, and as soon as we can see it, we become a free person.

To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

We're not all Jon Stewart. I know I'm not. I dropped out of college. Why would you come to me for anything that may influence your fact-based perspective? I think that the job of a comic is to be emotionally true.

I don't want people to follow Scarface. I want people to follow Brad Jordan, man.

I don't journal that much, honestly.

I've kept a journal since I was 15. And I feel like it's been crucial to who I've become and trying to maintain stuff, a sense of who I am just for myself and not for other people.

I'm a person who does not like to journal; I don't like to sit down and write... I don't even like sending emails.

I wrote songs when I was little, and I wrote a journal, but I don't think I knew how to let that truth come out yet.

I went into journalism to do journalism, not advertising.

I'm doing real journalism.

I fully acknowledge that I am not a journalist.

I think the hardest stories we tell are always the ones about ourselves. And as a journalist, I was taught that I'm never supposed to put myself in the story. So I spent what, 11, 12 years of my life writing about other people so I don't have to face my own life.

Trust is the most important aspect of being a journalist. If people don't trust or find you relatable - you will not have success.

Whatever my critics say, I've been a hard-core journalist all my career.

It's kind of a journalistic thing to say, 'This person is the next so and so.' I think actual musicians are never really into those kinds of comparisons.

All in all, I just don't trust journalists - and I don't think it's a good practice for me to trust journalists.

Knowing yourself and expressing it is hip. I think knowing yourself is the real journey, for me anyway.

As comedians, if nothing else, we're certainly allowed to make fun of ourselves and our own journeys and our own experiences.