Quotes About Authenticity

You don't have to be famous of rich or physically healthy to be a leader. You just have to try to be a true person

Yet such authenticity was part of [Sonia Sotomayor's] attraction. And she acknowledged what few other prominent figures revealed: she sometimes felt awkward and out of place. In her speeches, she talked about fighting the fear of missteps and failure. 'Like yourself. Like who you are,' she advised young people trying to make their way in the world.

Awareness of the little ways that we tend to be dishonest with ourselves leads to great strides in applying honesty and integrity to all our interactions.

It takes courage to re-own our lost parts, but authentic spirituality requires that we make the shadow visible and that we make that which is divided whole.

Carl Jung: "If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.

The spiritual life... is not achieved by denying one part of life for the sake of another. The spiritual life is achieved only by listening to all of life and learning to respond to each of its dimensions wholly and with integrity.

Humility is reality to the full.

Acceptance is the universal currency of real friendship. . . .It does not warp or shape or wrench a person to be anything other than what they are.

Better to walk through life simply and without masks, than to lose ourselves in the pursuit of identities that are purely cosmetic and commercial. Then, at least, we will be known for what we are rather than for what we are not.

We don't change as we get older - we just get to be ore of what we've always been.

We don't change as we get older—we just get to be more of what we've always been.

We don't change as we get older - we just get to be more of what we've always been.

The spiritual life, in other words, is not achieved by denying one part of life for the sake of another. The spiritual life is achieved only by listening to all of life and learning to respond to each of its dimensions wholly and with integrity.

Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself.

I knew Lynn was a "professional." Like all of the therapists I had seen before her, she was talking to me because she was getting paid to do so. But she was better at pretending that she cared. Her body language and sympathetic "umm' suggested that she really listened. (12)

Jo knew she had to be utterly truthful, even when her version of the truth conflicted with what Lynn wanted to hear. Truth was vital to Jo, because she had a hard enough time keeping track of the spotty reality she experienced.

No one inside will ever disappear. We're all real. We all matter.

You can write books, but there's only ever one book that's really you.

Life-threatening illness calls us to a place—metaphorically a desert or mountain peak—where, as we sit, the hard wind of reality strips away all the trappings of life, like so much clothing, makeup, and accessories.

Maybe that is why in my comedy I try and puncture the hypocrisy all around us, why it is almost a crusade with me to strip life down to what really is true.

Once people start identifying themselves or others as "permanently enlightened people," the bullshit begins.

I would so much rather be vulnerable and experience existence than be strong and defend myself from it.

Juniper laughed for real, but one of those fake smiles he considered a plague of the Caucasian race followed. If you're sad, be sad, he wanted to say.

guess I'm growing up, because I've come to the realization that if you have to tiptoe around a person, you can never have an honest relationship. Toe shoes are for ballerinas to wear on stage. They don't work so well in real life. Poppy