Quotes About Self-discovery

The only real job of a teacher, especially a writing teacher, is to help students find themselves.

The task we all face as human beings ... is to find and become who we are. The task teachers face is to find their own way of teaching, one that manifests who they are.

I found myself beset by so many doubts and errors that I came to think I had gained nothing from my attempts to become educated but increasing recognition of my ignorance.

Arjuna, ignore the onslaught of external stimuli and focus between your eyebrows, regulating inhalation and exhalation at the nostrils, to liberate yourself from fear, desire and anger, and discover me within you, I who receive and consume every offering of your yagnas.—Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 5, verses 27 to 29 (paraphrased).

Yagna is the outer journey, while yoga is the inner journey that Arjuna has to undertake.

it is Hanuman who sees his work as an exercise to discover what he is capable of becoming while Valmiki sees his work as a beacon to gather fame, attention and validation.

Become a master of your intellect as a charioteer masters his horses and you will realize it is not about the war, it is not about fighting or not fighting, it is not about winning or losing, but it is about taking decisions and discovering the truth about yourself. When you do this, there will be no fear, there will be no ego; you will be at peace, even in the midst of what the deluded call war.

To let our potential be realized without deriving our identity from it, or without denying its existence, is the hallmark of wisdom.

Let go of your self-pity and your rage, noble sage. Let the knots of your mind unbind until aham gives way to atma. Only then will you be able to restore your hermitage and bring back joy to your world,' said Ram with the demeanour of a king. Gautama

God is not an external trophy to be possessed; God is internal human potential to be realized.

lalu bagaimana kalo ternyata apa yang kita cari selama ini sebagai ketidaklengkapan sebenarnya hanya rectoverso belaka? Yang artinya kita tidak perlu kemana-mana. Yang artinya lagi untuk merasa utuh kita hanya perlu mengubah perspektif kita. Ketika kita berhasil mengambil jarak dari benih-benih pemecah belah dalam pikiran kita, maka rectoverso akan tampil. Yang artinya lagi (dan lagi), apa yang anda ingin cari tidak berada di luar sana sebaliknya sangat dekat tak berjarak.

This is what I believe: That I am I. That my soul is a dark forest. That my known self will never be more than a little clearing in the forest. That gods, strange gods, come forth from the forest into the clearing of my known self, and then go back. That I must have the courage to let them come and go. That I will never let mankind put anything over me, but that I will try always to recognize and submit to the gods in me and the gods in other men and women. There is my creed.

Juno MacGuff: I don't know what kind of girl I am.

An important aspect of the ebbing of sex was that other things became interesting. Sex obliterates the individuality of young women more often than it does that of young men, because so much more of a woman than a man is used by sex.

It's not so bad, when it finally happens. You think the world is going to collapse around you but it doesn't. You can see yourself clearly again. You realise that the fear was the worst thing.

I like the book ask my mood ring How a I Feel.

in these stories, written with no particular reader in mind, she found the key to freeing the small boy trapped in the wrong body, a salve to the gender quandary that so dismayed her when every expectation was for her to be a girl with curls.

Find your place, and let the world gravitate to you. None of this mix-and-mingle business.

I think when you're young you should be a lot with yourself and your sufferings. Then one day you get out where the sun shines and the rain rains and the snow snows, and it all comes together.

I mean one of the things about being alone is that you've no people to define yourself off, I mean, people are like all-round mirrors, because let's face it, we don't often see ourselves all round in a mirror anyway, do we.

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.

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I also needed to educate myself to North Carolina

When you're looking for someone, you're looking for some aspect of yourself, even if you don't know it. What we're searching for is what we lack.