Quotes About Self-discovery

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Los cobardes temen hasta la felicidad. Pueden herirse incluso con el algodón. A veces, hasta la felicidad les hiere.

Facing our true selves is the first step toward living a life of purpose, connection, and genuine joy.

It is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth.

Be you because everyone else is taken!

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well worth remembering from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Man is almost mad—mad because he is seeking something which he has already got; mad because he's not aware of who he is; mad because he hopes, desires and then ultimately, feels frustrated. Frustration is bound to be there because you cannot find yourself by seeking; you are already there. The seeking has to stop, the search has to drop....

Don't look for God in the sky; look within your own body.

My whole teaching consists of two words, meditation and love.

Nobody can teach you love. Love you have to find yourself, within your being, by raising your consciousness to higher levels.

I have never met the man I could despair of after discerning what lies in me apart from the grace of God.

Man is not God but hath God's end to serve, A master to obey, a course to take, Somewhat to cast off, somewhat to become. Grant this, then man must pass from old to new, From vain to real, from mistake to fact, From what once seemed good, to what now proves best. —Robert Browning

Sorrow removes a great deal of a person's shallowness, but it does not always make that person better. Suffering either gives me to myself or it destroys me. You cannot find or receive yourself through success, because you lose your head over pride. And you cannot receive yourself through the monotony of your daily life, because you give in to complaining. The only way to find yourself is in the fires of sorrow.

He wondered why nothing was ever like you thought it would be and then he realized it was because you never thought this would be you. She

Es Dios quien primero ilumina, obra y habla al interior del hombre visionario abierto, antes que éste logre expresarse a sí mismo, pensarse a sí mismo y hacerse a sí mismo en el yo soy.

When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too. Anne Morrow Lindberg

Apart from Tony Iommi – who I'd never seen again since leaving school – I didn't even know anyone who could play a musical instrument. So, instead, I decided to grow my hair long and get some tattoos. At least I'd look the part. The hair was easy. The tattoos stung like a f**king bastard.

The human being...is a book reading itself.

I haven't been around here for long. Well... actually, I haven't been around anywhere for long. I don't know who I am, or what I'm here for. I know that Lord Umber's important, though. I've seen all the good things he's done. I know for sure the world needs him. I can't say that about me.

You don't have to be a philosopher; you just have to want to know who you are

To be a meditator doesn't simply mean to live in a cave; it means to train oneself in the true meaning [of the natural state].

Buddhahood is attained by recognizing one's nature.

When I quit working, I lost all sense of identity in about fifteen minutes.