Quotes About Self-discovery

It is often advisable to be one's own guide, studying worthy books, using prayer and reflection, and following the intuitive guidance of one's Higher Self.

Of what use is unrealized divinity to anyone? If he is unconscious of his higher self, is a man any better off? The link of being linked with God potentially is not enough. It must also be personally discovered, felt, known, and demonstrated in living activity.

If we search into the innermost part of our self, we come in the end to an utter void where nothing from the outside world can reflect itself, to a divine stillness where no image and no form can be active. This is the essence of our being. This is the true Spirit.

Sometimes love creeps upon me, and I suddenly sort of just realise that it's there when i start shaving my legs every day and singing on my bicycle.

I did that because I was trying very hard. To fit in. To be one of the gang. I wanted to have a place so much that I did things I didn't really want to do.' He glanced at Joan. 'I've got a place now, I know who I want to be. I've grown up. I'm sorry that I gave you the wrong advice.

Midlife doesn't introduce you to a new you; it forces you to admit who you have been all along.

trying to force yourself to be different never really works.

Salvation understood as a revelation of our being in Christ or of our Buddha-nature is not just a wonderful revealing of what we are; it can also be a jolting kick in the pants, a transforming corrective to what we thought we were.

La soledad es algo maravilloso (...), por dos motivos: primero porque le permite a un hombre estar consigo mismo; y segundo porque se libra de estar con los demás.

Leading up to (divorce), the parties have to ry on different ways of being in the world. This means being single, sexually active, emotionally vulnerable with another human being.

No man could truly say what he was until he had been pushed to the edge of things with the precipice of his own ruin staring up at him.

In his moments of pride he had said all those things, half in fun and half in earnest, and he began to wonder how he could have been so many kinds of a fool for so long without realising it.

Knowledge of self is a precious commodity, dearer than the finest gemstone. The mirror I held before me now was not laced with gold filigree. It was cold and flat and bared every shadow on my soul.

walking with on Robertson was an outing of the self-destructed, trying to make do with one day at a time.

When you finally come out, there's a pain that stops, and you know it will never hurt like that again, no matter how much you lose or how bad you die.

For it turned out there were closets within the closet, and a lingering self-hatred that even the joy of connection couldn't solve. What love gives you is the courage to face the secrets you've kept from yourself, a reason to open the rest of the doors.

So I told myself I would give it up, even prayed at night for it to be taken away, not knowing that 'it' was love.

When you finally come out, there's a pain that stops, and you know it will never hurt like that again, no matter how much you lose or how bad you die.

Time to set forth alone and find out what sort of man I was, instead of being a mirror to somebody else. Swearing a blood oath, even as I clung to this ghost embrace, that I would never hold another man who wouldn't hold me back.

What love gives you is the courage to face the secrets you've kept from yourself, a reason to open the rest of the doors.

It was the first time I'd ever considered that gay might not just be about whom we slept with but a kind of sensibility, what survived of feeling after all the fears and evasions of the closet.

That would be my theme, I thought: once I came out, the world was all windows.

You only grow when you are alone.

Every day is a new day, you get to start again, give yourself permission reinvent yourself.