Quotes About Authenticity

There is only one reason to do anything: as a statement to the universe of Who You Are.

Kun når din gjøren strømmer ut fra din værens basis, idet du erklærer den heller enn at du forsøker å skape den, kan du bli tilstrekkelig fokusert til å bli en Lysbringer.

Radite ono što želite. Radite ono što vas odražava, predstavlja, kao ve?u viziju vašeg ja. Ako želite da se ose?ate loše, ose?ajte se tako. Ali nemojte da osu?ujete niti okrivljujete jer ne znate zašto se nešto doga?a, niti sa kojim ciljem. Upamtite slede?e: to što okrivljujete ?e okriviti vas, i to što osu?ujete - jednog dana ?ete postati.

For true love is always free, and obligation cannot exist in the space of love.

Seek, then, to create change not because a thing is wrong, but because it no longer makes an accurate statement of Who You Are.

Can you help me to better understand how to do that? Yes. Go first to your Highest Thought about yourself. Imagine the you that you would be if you lived that thought every day. Imagine what you would think, do, and say, and how you would respond to what others do and say. Do you see any difference between that projection and what you think, do, and say now?

Marriage, as most of you have practiced it, is not particularly beautiful. For it violates two of the three aspects of what is true about each human being by nature.

Si se ve como Buda, camina como Buda, habla como Buda y actúa como Buda, con seguridad no es Buda, sino un impostor que tan sólo busca tu atención y adulación. Porque el verdadero Buda no querría nada de ti, mucho menos el reconocimiento de su grandeza, y sólo desearía tu propia realización.

Alt du er, er du fordi du velger å være det.

You can _know_ yourself to be generous, but unless you _do_ something which displays generosity, you have nothing but a concept. You can _know_ yourself to be kind, but unless you _do_ someone a kindness, you have nothing but an idea about yourself.

total nakedness, that is absolute transparency, that is utter and unfettered and profound visibility, is the only way that we can truly love. anything less, is self-defense

You are free to announce and declare Who You Are in every moment of Now. Indeed, you are doing so, without even knowing it. You are not free, however, to declare who someone else is, or who they must be.

Feeling is the language of the soul. If you want to know what's true for you about something, look to how you're feeling about it. Feelings are sometimes difficult to discover — and often even more difficult to acknowledge. Yet hidden in your deepest feelings is your highest truth. Neale Walsch

I like how you don't hide your problems like everyone else, and I don't have to hide mine when I'm around you.

And when you say the truth you get stronger.

So now live for real, Craig. Live. Live. Live. Live.

Is that the truth, Jimmy? I ask without looking at him. It's the truth and it come to ya! I smile.

I didn't want to be part of some trend. I wasn't doing this for a fashion statement

I raise my wrist, show him the bracelets. I have pride in them now. They're true, and people can't screw with them. And when you say the truth you get stronger.

But you know what, it's time for me to stop putting other people's emotions ahead of my own. It's time for me to be true to myself, like the popstars say. And my true self wants to blast off this rock.

It started with blogs; now, through social media, anyone who is active on the internet creates a digital projection of themselves for public consumption. We are all stars, all heroes in our own online productions. What does this do for our authenticity? It destroys it.

How could I ask for "horse" with a straight face? And, if I were doing heroin, then I'd be a depressed teenager on heroin. I didn't need to be that cliché.

People are screwed up in this world. I'd rather be with someone screwed up and open about it than somebody perfect and…you know…ready to explode.

People are screwed up in this world. I'd rather be with someone screwed up and open about it