Quotes About Self-discovery

That's what this is about. It's somebody I lost, all right, it's my own self. Who I never was. Or who I tried to be and never got there. Somebody I waited for who never came. And never will.

The payoff for Ahimsa isn't that you upgrade the illusion, which is what the ego is always striving to do with more money, possessions, and power. The payoff is that you get to be who you really are. Higher

The payoff for Ahimsa isn't that you upgrade the illusion, which is what the ego is always striving to do with more money, possessions, and power. The payoff is that you get to be who you really are.

Mo?e i prawda, ?e postawa, jak? zajmuje ka?dy z nas wobec tego, co ogromne, co zdaje si? nienaruszalne, niewiele mówi. Ale przynajmniej wyja?nia co? w tak drobnej kwestii, jak pytanie o to, kim, do diab?a, jestem.

Can I tell you what I'm doing? I'm in search of a new story for myself. I need something to do that gets me excited in the morning and wears me out by bedtime.

I think the general opinion is that it's one thing to be strong and go after something and fight to help others when you're in control. Anyone can make themselves look good if they work hard enough at it. But it's the moments that take all that control away completely when you find out who a person is. How they react to not having a say in the matter.

Martha Freeman

But the soul concerns me; and I am beginning to wonder whether it is wise or useful to spend so much time searching for one's own.

I never set out to create a technique. I started out on the floor to find myself, to find what the body could do, and what would give me satisfaction - emotionally, dramatically and bodily. But I did not ever dream of establishing a technique. I still can't believe anything like that happened.

You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled, then something has been lost.

Menders of all times and places have taught that silencing the thoughts in our heads and opening to the experience of the body and emotions is the basis of all healing. It's the only means by which we can reclaim our true nature or feel the subtle cues telling us how to find our way through life.

I was tired of pretending to be human. I needed a break.

I'd have to leave the armor behind. But maybe I wouldn't need it anymore.

opposed to the reality, which was that I was one whole confused entity, with no idea what I wanted to do. What I should do. What I needed to do.

It makes it sound like the halves are discrete...As opposed to the reality, which was that I was one whole confused entity, with no idea what I wanted to do.

You are who God made you, not who your father made you.

Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat any time and be yourself. —Hermann Hesse

Words for Introverts to Live By Be playful. Take breaks. Appreciate your inside world. Be authentic. Enjoy curiosity.

Maybe being oneself is always an acquired taste. —Patricia Hampl S

Aller Widersinn, mit dem die Welt dich kränkt, tritt dich an, damit du den Sinn in ihm entdeckst, und aller Widerspruch, der in dir selbst dich peinigt, wartet auf deinen Spruch, ihn zu bannen.

Everyone must come out of his Exile in his own way.

Before his death, Rabbi Zusya said "In the coming world, they will not ask me: 'Why were you not Moses?' They will ask me: 'Why were you not Zusya?

Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.

The great thing about being a writer is that you are always re-creating yourself.