Quotes About Self-discovery

Not quite. I'm thinking of a queer feeling I sometimes get, a feel that I've got something important to say and the power to say it—only I don't know what it is, and I can't make any use of the power.

He liked to think of himself as a merciless vivisector probing into the palpitating entrails of his own soul.

But wouldn't you like to be free to be happy in some other way? In your own way, for example; not in everybody else's way.

What would it be like if I were free, not enslaved by my conditioning?

Nobody needs to go anywhere else. We are all, if we only knew it, already there. If I only knew who in fact I am, I should cease to behave as what I think I am; and if I stopped behaving as what I think I am, I should know who I am. What in fact I am, if only the Manichee I think I am would allow me to know it, is the reconciliation of yes and no lived out in total acceptance and the blessed experience of Not-Two.

If I only knew who in fact I am, I should cease to behave as what I think I am; and if I stopped behaving as what I think I am, I should know who I am.

Did you ever feel," he asked, "as though you had something inside you that was only waiting for you to give it a chance to come out?

Iadul este incapacitatea de a fi altul decat fiinta pe care o descoperi actionand zilnic in numele tau.

Želio bih promatrati more na miru.Od toga se osje?am kao...kao da postajem više ja,ako shva?aš što želim re?i.Više svoj,a ne u potpunosti samo dio ne?ega.Ne samo stanica u tijelu društva.

Landscapes can really remind people of who they are. You are almost forced to submit to your immediate experience; you're practically compelled to perform an act of self-loving.

Dünyay? deÄŸiÅŸtirmek istedim, anlad?m ki kesin olarak deÄŸiÅŸtirebileceÄŸiniz tek ÅŸey bizzat kendinizdir.

But wouldn't you like to be free to be happy in some other way, Lenina? In your own way, for example; not in everybody else's way.

EÄŸer farkl?ysan, yaln?zl??a mahkûm oluyorsun.

Did you ever feel,' he asked slowly, 'as though you had something inside you that was only waiting for you to give it the chance to come out? Some sort of extra power that you could be using if you knew how?

The mystical experience is doubly valuable; it is valuable because it gives the experiencer a better understanding of himself and the world and because it may help him to lead a less self-centered and more creative life.

It is because we don't know who we are, because we are unaware that the Kingdom of Heaven is within us, that we behave in the generally silly, the often insane, and sometime criminal ways that are so characteristically human.

Ninguém precisa ir a parte alguma. Como seria bom que todos soubessem disso! Se apenas soubesse quem realmente sou, deixaria de proceder como penso que sou. E se parasse de me comportar como penso ser, saberia quem sou. Se ao menos o MANIQUEÍSTA que penso ser me permitisse ser o que de fato sou, o sim e o não viveriam reconciliados na abençoada aceitação da experiência de Ser Único.

Pero el hombre que regresa por la Puerta en el Muro ya no será nunca el mismo que salió por ella. Será más instruido y menos engreído, estará más contento y menos satisfecho de sí mismo, reconocerá su ignorancia más humildemente, pero, al mismo tiempo

No, el verdadero problema es: <<¿Por qué no puedo hablar?>> O, ya que en realidad sé perfectamente por qué, la pregunta adecuada es ¿qué sensación experimentaría si pudiera, si fuese libre, si no me hallara esclavizado por mi condicionamiento?

We all confront the parameters of our cage eventually. What we do when we reach those bars helps define us.

in a crisis a man learnt what was real to him and what was unreal; that he became himself, choosing what he really needed.

Do what thou wilt, the most sublimely austere ethical precept ever uttered, despite its apparent license.

Man is ignorant of the nature of his own being and powers. Even his idea of his limitations is based on experience of the past, and every step in his progress extends his empire. There is therefore no reason to assign theoretical limits to what he may be, or what he may do.

No hay más Tierra Prometida que la que el hombre puede encontrar en sí mismo.