Quotes About Authenticity

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.

Man prides himself on being the only animal who can modify his nature, yet when he chooses to do so he is called a phony.

When you reach the bottom of the well of your own nature, then you will know that the vileness was from yourself.

We're constantly changing and any practice meant to serve our authenticity should reflect our fluid nature.

We are meant to discover our authentic nature-the state of being in which we are inspired by ourselves, turned on, lit up, and excited about who we are.

Eventually, you have to stop picking a fight with your true nature and decide to seek the joy that underlies it all.

Hell is our creation, and we create hell by trying to do the impossible. Heaven is our nature, it is our spontaneity. It is where we always are.

Reintegration with Nature, which we are, is the recovery of spontaneity.

I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself.

Nature is honest, we aren't; we embalm our dead.

There is nothing to practice. To know yourself, be yourself. To be yourself, stop imagining yourself to be this or that. Just be. Let your true nature emerge. Don't disturb your mind with seeking.

Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.

One of the truest things to commit to is your own nature.

You are meant to understand the nature of your inner self, and to manifest it outward.

A neurosis is wherever we are allied against our true nature.

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.

The only service you can do for anyone is to remind them of their true nature.

What use is it for me to force my nature? / For my nature shall always remain / What it is and conquer what belongs to it, / However men may narrow its path.

Anybody's true nature is bullshit. There is no human soul. Emotion is bullshit. Love is bullshit.

Why should I be ashamed to describe what nature was not ashamed to create?

Growing up, being watched from the outside... it's kind of very taxing and maybe I should just do some kind of manual labor-it might be more relaxing. But I can't, it's not in my nature.

Always with me was the inner twin: my true nature, my true self. It is timeless, free, compassionate and in love with whatever is natural to me

Nature doesn't cheat - people do.

Like a fragrance to a flower, true happiness is an expression of your unconditional self...the real you.