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Quotes About Authenticity

When a man says to me, "I have the intensest love of nature," at once I know that he has none.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
We must not tamper with the organic motion of the soul.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Be and not seem.
Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
What you are shouts so loud in my ears I cannot hear what you say.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself.
~ Ralph Waldo Trine
In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight.
~ Ram Dass
Wanting to reform the world without discovering one's true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes.
~ Ramana Maharshi
Be as you are. (p. 118)
~ Ramana Maharshi
A man conscious of his pain is more real than a man who is unconscious of his happiness thus exhibiting his unreal nature.
~ RAMANA PEMMARAJU
Always remember the primary purpose of your life is living in tune with your energy pattern, find the true expression for the energy and go with the flow!"
~ RAMANA PEMMARAJU
As long as you're taking advice from others, you are not integrated nor total - every move will be out of compulsion, only a half-hearted attempt; but the moment you act from within, you move into a totally different dimension, you enter a new space of a self-propelled & motivated, driven by no-mind state.
~ RAMANA PEMMARAJU
As long as you're taking advice from others, you are not integrated, total - every move will be out of compulsion, only a half-hearted attempt; but the moment you act from within, you move into a totally different dimension, you enter a new space of a self-propelled & motivated no-mind state.
~ RAMANA PEMMARAJU
Now I get why I'm incapable of Flirting for I can't Lie!
~ RAMANA PEMMARAJU
Only he qualifies to be an INDIVIDUAL, who has created an IMAGE for himself, in tune with his INTRINSIC NATURE, for majority only succumb to the human stupidity and perish!
~ RAMANA PEMMARAJU
Stop manipulating yourSELF!
~ RAMANA PEMMARAJU