Quotes About Authenticity

If people were more concerned with how they looked on the inside, then on the outside, the world would be a nicer place to exist.

Honesty needs no approval.

He could never pretend to love when it was something that came natural to him, nor would he ever accept hatred just because it came natural to someone else.

when a person hides their motives, they hide themselves;

It's easy to be a lame nigga, it's harder to be a real one…

Iniziamo a essere credibili nel momento in cui siamo trasparenti e ammettiamo di essere non infallibili.

Poetry is language against which you have no defenses.

Therefore, at any time of life, follow your own questions; don't mistake other people's questions for your own.

Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the conversation. The kettle is singing even as it pours you a drink, the cooking pots have left their arrogant aloofness and seen the good in you at last. All the birds and creatures of the world are unutterably themselves. Everything is waiting for you.

Humiliation is mostly something we try to avoid, but it is something more often, all for the best, in retrospect. There is a lovely root to the word, the Latin word humus, meaning soil or ground. When we are humiliated, we are in effect returned to the ground of our being. Any fancy ideas we have about ourselves are shriven away by the reality of the moment. We come to earth with a thump. It may be a narrow piece of ground, but at least it is real and at least it is our own.

What is precious inside us does not care to be known by the mind in ways that diminish its presence.

What you can plan is too small for you to live. What you can live wholeheartedly will make enough plans

To be disappointed is to reassess our self and our inner world, and to be called to the larger foundational reality that lies beyond any false self we had only projected upon the outer world.

What we are actually about to become or are afraid of becoming always trumps and rules over what we think we are already.

We each have a particular way of shaping ourselves in the world. To take on someone else's conversational style and to keep repeating other people's questions as if they were our own is to exhaust ourselves. It doesn't matter if it is the thoughts of Socrates or Susan Sontag. Read and admire, but then go back to first principles and ask the question yourself, in your own way. Dare to disagree.

Honesty is not found in revealing the truth, but in understanding how deeply afraid of it we are.

The antidote to exhaustion is not necessarily rest but wholeheartedness

We banish the misaligned when we align with what we are called to; we become visible and real when we give our gift and stop waiting for the gift to be given to us.

the ultimate touchstone of friendship is not improvement, neither of the other nor of the self, the ultimate touchstone is witness, the privilege of having been seen by someone and the equal privilege of being granted the sight of the essence of another

And when you are humiliated all your fancy ideas about yourself and who you are and what you can accomplish and how are shriveled away suddenly in the encounter with the ground.

The antidote to exhaustion is wholeheartedness.

You must learn one thing: the world was made to be free in. Give up all the other worlds except the one to which you belong. Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet confinement of your aloneness to learn anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you." ? David Whyte

No, I don't, like, play an instrument or anything.I'm just...well, you saw me at the beginning there. I was the guy that fell down and died.

Crotch-punchingly real!