Quotes About Authenticity

Sei also dem Leben treu, indem du deinem inneren Ziel treu bleibst. Wenn du präsent bist und voll und ganz in dem aufgehst, was du tust, werden deine Taten mit spiritueller Kraft aufgeladen. Zuerst mag noch keine merkliche Veränderung zu erkennen sein in dem, was du tust – nur im Wie. Dein vorrangiges Ziel ist es jetzt, dafür zu sorgen, dass Bewusstsein in alles einfließen kann, was du tust.

What difference does their approval or disapproval truly make to who you are?

This is to say, you don't need to become whole, but be what you already are—with or without the pain-body.

You are never more essentially yourself, than when you are still

Yes, you are the Truth. If you look for it elsewhere, you will be deceived every time.

But it is through knowing who you are not that the greatest obstacle to truly knowing yourself is removed.

In the seeing of who you are not, the reality of who you are emerges by itself.

Living up to an image that you have of yourself or that other people have of you is inauthentic living—

Going beyond ego is stepping out of content. Knowing yourself is being yourself

No puedes amar a tu compañero o compañera un momento y atacarle al siguiente. El verdadero amor no tiene opuesto. Si tu «amor» tiene un opuesto, entonces no es amor, sino la intensa necesidad del ego de una identidad más completa y profunda, necesidad que la otra persona cubre temporalmente.

What matters to you is not necessarily what you say or believe, but what your actions and reactions reveal as important and serious to you.

Pero ¿necesitas tener una relación contigo mismo? ¿Por qué no puedes simplemente ser tú mismo? Para tener una relación contigo mismo te divides en dos: «yo» y «mí mismo», sujeto y objeto.

But we cannot really honor things if we use them as a means to self-enhancement, that is to say, if we try to find ourselves through them.

who you are is always a more vital teaching and a more powerful transformer of the world than what you say, and more essential even than what you do.

True self is rooted in being

When you don't know who you are, you create a mind-made self as a substitute for your beautiful, divine being and cling to that fearful and needy self. Protecting and enhancing that false sense of self then becomes your primary motivating force.

But I don't know who I am. I don't know what it means to be myself." If you can be absolutely comfortable with not knowing who you are, then what's left is who you are—the Being behind the human, a field of pure potentiality rather than something that is already defined.

We spend too much time concealing our neediness. We need to stop hiding. Being needy is our basic condition. There is no shame in it—it's just the way it is. Understanding this, accepting it, and practicing it will make you a better helper.

I've learnt that you've got to be really non-apologetic... You've got to say, 'Hi, I'm here, can I have a cup of tea? And one of those biscuits?' If you say that, it's fine. If you go in and say, 'Excuse me, I'm a transvestite, I'll be in the corner, I won't be a problem, I'll face away,' everyone will go, 'Oh-oh, problem case in the corner.' So don't apologise.

but on Barsoom no man lies; if he does not wish to speak the truth he is silent.

Give them what you wish of it, what you think will not harm them, but do not feel aggrieved if they laugh at you.

Since there is so much that you know about me, can you tell me something about yourself? Some true thing? She asked, watching him, realizing that she knew nothing of the actual man that hid beneath the blandly smiling, smooth exterior that he presented. Some true thing? He laughed. Oh my dear, there is no true thing about me at all.

Do not accept anything as love which lacks truth.

Everything may be labelled- but everybody is not.