Quotes About Authenticity

Why should I listen to my heart ? Because you will never again be able to keep it quite . Even if you pretend not to have heard what it tells you .

Kau bisa menemukan Pasangan Jiwamu dengan melihat cahaya di mata mereka, dan sejak awal, begitulah cara orang mengenali cinta sejati mereka.

When you grow tired of being what you're not, go and have fun and celebrate life... In time, you'll discover that it will give you more than pleasure, it will give you meaning.

The path to wisdom is to be yourself. Stop seeking.

He hadn't planned anything like that, and when things happen without planning or expectations they are that much more enjoyable and worthwhile—talking to a stranger without an eye to any romantic connection had allowed things to flow more naturally.

I'm tired of having such a happy, perfect life. And that can only be a sign of mental illness. That's what I fall asleep thinking. Perhaps I really do have a serious problem.

What do you want? You can't want to be happy, because that's too easy and too boring. You can't want only to love, because that's impossible. What do you want? You want to justify your life, to live it as intensely as possible. That is at once a trap and a source of ecstasy. Try to be alert to that danger and experience the joy and the adventure of being that woman who is beyond the image reflected in the mirror.

The outer self, that which you believe yourself to be. is nothing more than a limiting place, a stranger to the true self. This is why people have such a hard time listening to what their souls are telling them; they try to control the soul so that it does exactly as they have already decided - their wants. their hopes, their futures.

Because a lie can never make you stronger, no matter how many times you tell it.

This is I. I am as you see me. I do not care to be otherwise.

If we start with that, with wanting girls to see themselves from the inside out rather than outside in , we will go a long way toward helping them find their true happily-ever-afters.

The essence of bravery is being without self-deception.

Meditation practice isn't about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It's about befriending who we are already.

Affirmations are like screaming that you're okay in order to overcome this whisper that you're not... maybe you're not okay. Well, no big deal. None of us is okay and all of us are fine.

Meditation practice is not about later, when you get it all together and you're this person you really respect.

you're never going to get your act together, fully, completely.

Meditation takes us just as we are, with our confusion and our sanity. This complete acceptance of ourselves as we are is called maitri, or unconditional friendliness, a simple, direct relationship with the way we are.

IN practicing meditation, we're not trying to live up to some kind of ideal—quite the opposite.

Even though there are so many teachings, so many meditations, so many instructions, the basic point of it all is just to learn to be extremely honest and also wholehearted about what exists in your mind - thoughts, emotions bodily sensations, the whole thing that adds up to what we call me or I.

Once I had an opportunity to talk with Chogyam Trungpa, Rinpoche, about the fact that I was not able to do my practice properly. I had just started the vajrayana practices and I was supposed to be visualizing. I couldn't visualize anything. I tried and tried but there was just nothing at all; I felt like a fraud doing the practice because it didn't feel natural to me. (...). So he encouraged me by saying that as long as you have these kinds of doubts, your practice will be good.

Meditation practice isn't about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It's about befriending who we are already. The ground of practice is you or me or whoever we are right now, just as we are. That's what we come to know with tremendous curiosity and interest.

The point is that our true nature is not some ideal that we have to live up to. It's who we are right now, and that's what we can make friends with and celebrate.

Honestly, that is the best advice for life: no note cards.

Meditation practice isn't about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better.