Quotes About Authenticity

Sometimes the things we hide—aren't the parts of us that matter most.

Maybe being known by someone, really being known by someone, wasn't a party trick like ESP. Maybe it was about opening your heart to that person, consciously and on purpose.

it's your birthright to be snarky. Own it. Live it. Rejoice in it.

Even in the snarkiest of times, stay true.

It's not my fault I can't be like you, okay? I don't get up in the morning thinking the world is one big, shiny, happy place, okay? That's just not how I work. I don't think I can be fixed.

That's the way I feel, at least: like there's a real me and a reflection of me, and I have no way of telling which is which.

Everyone knows that a lot of memoirs have made-up scenes; it's obvious. And everyone knows that half the time at least fictions contain literal autobiographical truths. So how do we decide what's what, and does it even matter?

has even been suggested that Marco Polo never made it to China, despite his apparently firsthand descriptions of that region.

the East, notably Prester John, which added to its readability and appeal, even as they compromised its claims to authenticity.

The maxim 'Know thyself,' can be a sharp and painful sword, but it must be endured in order to be a True Human Being.

This is Gnosis: the casting off of all that is inauthentic and entering in all your nakedness into the waters of the Real Authenticity.

However, some realities lack an integral congruence, they lack an alignment with the attributes of the nature of the Absolute. When people say, 'Something smells rotten,' they are intuitively referring to the fact that something is not in harmony with the truth or it is synthetic (lacking in authenticity).

Here is the beginning of integrity. A human being who deeply looks into himself or herself and asks: Who am I? What is the meaning of life? Why am I here? Why is anything here? Why are other people here? Where is here? and so forth, begins to find within himself or herself their authentic beliefs.

You need clear thinking to prevent an invasion of Alien Parasites, and to battle them. The 'reality' of Las Vegas, Hollywood, Haute Couture, politics, pornography, advertising, supermarket tabloids, are all false realities designed to deceive and confuse you with what is truly authentic. They also weaken your mind, because these false realities hypnotize you. You mind becomes weak and passive, and so therefore you have no mental defenses against the mind parasites.

Dare to live the truth of your myth.

Journey to the Heart of Beauty; do not be obsessed with mental and egoic ideas of form and perfection. Get your hands and feet dirty, dance in the rain, and rejoice in the Life that is Living Itself through the Uniqueness of You!

Dive right into the Heart of Blame and leave your titles, your imagined "position" in the tekke, your sense of being "special," and other subtle ways that try to communicate to people that you are 'spiritual'.

When we fear something, when we are faced with the frightening unknown, this is a call to take notice that our fear, this unknown, contains wisdom that will make you much stronger. People are terrified of themselves, and often turn to external means and techniques with the intention of controlling their outer lives, creating the false belief that all is well. If you can go to the place of the deepest parts of yourself, and then proceed from that profundity, you can manifest real magick.

There's no beauty in the false, the artificial and the lie.

If you can go to the place of the deepest parts of yourself, and then proceed from that profundity, you can manifest real magick.

Paradoxically, the more we try to change ourselves, the more we prevent change from occurring. On the other hand, the more we allow ourselves to fully experience who we are, the greater the possibility of change.

Love that is conditional upon looks and performance is not love at all

These individuals need to see that as long as they continue to choose to please others at their own expense, they will be trapped. They need to discover how they try to control other people's responses by being the "good boy" or "nice girl" for them. They need to find the courage to give up that control by being frank and honest with people and allowing them to respond as they will.

Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to the garage makes you a car.