Quotes About Authenticity

If you've ever wished for a friend who would love you as you are, appreciate your genius, and make space for your foibles, welcome you when you're funny and shiny and when you're a complete mess—well, I can introduce you to this person. Rather, your meditation practice can. He or she has been there the whole time. You are the one you've been waiting for, as they say.

Here was a path that led you, not away from strong emotion but directly toward it; one that applauded the ability to feel deeply—not for its dramatic qualities but for its vividness and intelligence.

if you try to prevent strong emotion, you're always on the defensive. If you never put up your guard in the first place, you have nothing to defend and therefore nothing to worry about.

A Dark Night of the Soul is not the universe's attempt to rob you of happiness or beat you into submission—on the contrary. It is a natural cycle of life that teaches you the meaning of happiness beyond pleasure. It offers the opportunity for liberation from inauthenticity. If you acknowledge the Dark Night and open to it, it will teach you extraordinary lessons about who you are and what your life is about.

The Buddhadharma is not, however, associated with the practice of being a candy-ass.

This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy.

Love is being honest with yourself at all times being honest with the other person at all times telling, listening, respecting the truth and never pretending Love is the source of reality

Because I have willed it. And I am not a fairy tale.

Very few people are original. There's very little original anything out there. Because to be original means you have to stand alone.

Sex is one of the arenas where a person is most themselves, and reveals that self most early and openly in a relationship

Leadership Wisdom refers to authenticity, compassion, insight, discernment, selflessness, purpose-driven behavior, and making decisions for the greater good over the advancement of the self. We can only develop wisdom as we learn to let go of our defenses and act out of choice rather than defensiveness. Robertson, Susan . Real Leadership: Waken To Wisdom . The Books Factory. Kindle Edition.

To be REAL means waking up. Waking up to the inner-truth of who we are and what drives us. It requires an honest look in the mirror to acknowledge that we are not perfect. Waking up means we are willing to transform ourselves from fear-based mindsets and behaviors to become a better person than who we are today. Becoming a REAL leader requires authenticity, humility, caring, transparency, and discernment. Robertson, Susan. Real Leadership: Waken To Wisdom. The Books Factory. Kindle Edition.

An encounter with God is not achieved by stripping us of our human nature, but rather by entering into it honestly, as Jesus did. As a

live accordingly to the truths within yorself

There is something within us that responds deeply to people who level with us.

Has a sense of humor. (Preferably warped.) We know who we are

Ask yourself, "How did I get here? How is it that I find myself in a company, a role, a relationship, or a life from which I've absented my spirit? How did I lose my way?

If you are open, vulnerable, disclosing, more likely than not it will be reciprocated and walls will come down.

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Maya Angelou said, "When someone shows you who he is, believe him the first time." Or her.  What we do is who we are.  When someone says, "That's not me," after doing something or saying something hurtful, they are mistaken.  That is them.  That is exactly them or at least a part of them and it may be a part of them that you do not want in your life.

What is needed now is for leaders to become more open, more flexible, less egoistic and less hypocritical. We must loosen our death grip on whatever we believe to be the truth simply because it is how we want the truth to look. We must be honest with ourselves and invite honesty from others.

The truth will set you free - but first it may thoroughly irritate you.

Love wasn't love if she had to try too hard to feel it.