Quotes About Authenticity

Allow yourself to undertake this journey exactly as you are. Be free to be your imperfect, messy, unenlightened self as well as your magnificent, extraordinary, fabulous self.

What makes life worth living is being actively engaged in becoming the finest, most delicious human being you can possibly be in this lifetime.

True love feels perfectly safe to explore and admit one's weaknesses, because doing so is not an admission that one is bad or inferior in any way.

If it lasts, then it's real. If it doesn't, then it wasn't. Either that, or someone screwed it up really badly.

And you don't have to be perfect before, during, or after doing this course. Just stay authentic and risk telling the truth—first to yourself and then to others, because that's where the healing happens.

Love is the wrecking ball that is pulverizing every relationship of record that isn't wide enough or brave enough to let real love in. —Daphne Rose Kingma

For love, by definition, happens when it is safe to be flawed in the presence of another. Think

We are never lonely because we have lost contact with others. We are lonely because we have lost contact with ourselves.

When human relationships fail . . . they fail because they were entered into for the wrong reason. —Neale Donald Walsch, Conversations with God, Book 1

Soulful marriages are often odd on the surface. —Thomas Moore

each of us holds at our core a deep desire to become "more of who we really are.

Él no debe sentirse obligado a brindarme más amabilidad de la que desea. Si no la ofrece por su propia voluntad, no significa nada.

Wild is a word like 'soul'. Such a thing may not exist, but we want it, and we know what we mean when we talk about it.

Meditation is not spacing-out or running away. In fact, it is being totally honest with ourselves.

Because we are made in God's image, in fleeing from a relationship with a loving God, we are also running from being our most authentic selves.

Do you live by your standards?" "Sometimes...sometimes I do, and other times I do what's expected of me.

Heaven isn't a place, Fanning!...Why does everyone assume it's a destination - some cerebral version of Grand Central Station? It's a state of being! The unshakeable certainty of who you are and where you fit in the world! The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune aside, we suffer most when we try to be someone or something we're not." (page 220)

The secret life is the only real life. Everything else is just a disguise.

As I stared back at myself in the reflected grandeur of the room, I remembered what Mr. Kessler had told me: a good counterfeit is as much a work of art as the real thing.

Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should do, the never get around to doing what they want to do.

once described fiction as a monumental lie that has to have the absolute ring of truth if it is to succeed. And that ring of truth invariably comes from research, which in turn gives a novel its authenticity. It is this kind of authenticity plus good storytelling that made Forever Amber a bestseller 56 years ago. Now

Character is who you are, when nobody is looking.

Some people think what you're supposed to do in life is fill yourself up with loads of things like names, the more the better. But that's not how it works.

Kabir I recently came across: "…just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things, and stand firm in that which you are.