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Quotes About Self-discovery

Be kind to yourself as you proceed along this journey. This kindness, in itself, is a means of awakening the spark of love within you and helping others to discover that spark within themselves.
~ Tsoknyi Rinpoche
Free yourself from the psychological structure of society, which is to free yourself from the essence of conflict.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
What a liberation to realize that the 'voice in my head' is not who I am. 'Who am I, then?' The one who sees that.
~ Eckhart Tolle
You can give joyfully only when you have found something so valuable within yourself that everything else does not mean so much to you anymore.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
You've got to find yourself first. Everything else'll follow.
~ Charles de Lint
Your career, interests and relationships are important, but they are only important insofar as they lead you toward a deeper understanding of yourself. Otherwise, they are irrelevant.
~ A. H. Almaas
In our imaginations we believe that love is apart from us. Actually there is nothing but love, once we are ready to accept it. When you truly find love, you find yourself
~ Deepak Chopra
Any path is only a path, and there is no affront to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you.
~ Carlos Castaneda
There is nothing more genuine than breaking away from the chorus to learn the sound of your own voice.
~ PO BRONSON
Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
There's no beauty that you could perceive or create if it were not already within you.
~ Peter Shepherd
Until you know that life is interesting - and find it so - you haven't found your soul.
~ Geoffrey Fisher
Inward is not a direction. Inward is a dimension.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
True honesty is the willingness to stand completely exposed, allowing the world to do what it may, and say what it will, only so you may know who you are - beyond all ideas.
~ Matthew Kahn
Making peace with one's truth is to live in one's own moment, moving passionately forward in joy.
~ Michelle Cruz-Rosado
The most creative act you will ever undertake is the act of creating yourself.
~ Deepak Chopra
What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we cannot cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?
~ Thomas Merton
Why are we here? To become ourselves in you.
~ Kabir
The main requirement for spiritual growth: A yearning to know who you really are.
~ Adyashanti
Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it's not like you're going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.
~ Jack Kornfield
The great spiritual geniuses, whether it was Moses, Buddha, Plato, Socrates, Jesus, or Emerson..... have taught man to look within himself to find God.
~ Ernest Holmes
Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.
~ James Allen
The deeper you get into Yoga you realize it is a spiritual practice. It's a journey I'm making. I'm heading that way.
~ Sting
It takes years for average persons in the nagual's world to remove themselves from their involvement with themselves and be capable of seeing the wonder of it all.
~ Florinda Donner