Quotes About Authenticity

There is only one reason to do anything: as a statement to the universe of Who You Are.

Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.

There is a spiritual obligation, there is a task to be done. It is not, however, something as simple as following a set of somebody else's rules

Every day we have the opportunity to make our relationships be on the outside what they really are on a spiritual level.

Busyness is the unrivaled archenemy of spiritual authenticity.

Conventions which camouflage a man's true feelings are a spiritual lie which help him adapt himself to the organized deviations of society.

You become most powerful in whatever you do if the action is performed for its own sake rather than as a means to protect, enhance, or conform to your role identity.

What we're all striving for is authenticity, a spirit-to-spirit connection.

If you set out to meditate, it will not be meditation. If you set out to be good, goodness will never flower.

There's always the threat of "spiritual one-up-manship" that we must avoid.

Although our package of skin and bones looks very convincing, it is a mask, an illusion, disguising our true self, which has no limitations.

Where there are two people, there is untruth.

Knowing yourself has to always come from within. The outside can inspire or guide you, but knowing has to come from within you.

You each have the same energy and it sings within you. You need not be shy of it, it is your own. You need not look to gurus, or Gods, or Seths. It dwells within your own being.

The one infallible sign that a spiritual teacher is a fraud is that he charges money for his instruction.

A lot of the girls my age were impressed by silly stuff like money and fame. I wanted to be able to have intellectual and spiritual conversations with someone who was on the same page as me.

When we start to believe stories about how life works that come from anywhere else but within, we have set ourselves up for a crash course in getting a spiritual wake-up call!

Authentic spirituality... does not render the self content, it renders it undone.

Apakah penampilanku satu-satunya hal yang membuatku berharga? Jika begitu, jangan tatap aku. Wajahku bisa menyembunyikan hati yang palsu.

We are what we pretend to be.

We need energy, commitment, and courage not to run from our life nor to cover it over with any philosophy—material or spiritual.

Flaky devotionalism, bowing and scraping and sucking up to the teacher is very phony. It is counterproductive to enlightenment and spiritual development. What is necessary is mutual respect.

Just as blood is a fact of your physical body and nothing you invented, creativity is a fact of your spiritual body and nothing you must invent.

Spiritual dignity says that I don't have to compete with anyone; I don't have to do what my friends do. All I have to do is be myself and be dignified in my meditation and my lifestyle.