Quotes About Self-discovery

E acabamos fatalmente por desembocar na pergunta essencial, que se encontra por detrás de todas as outras quando todas as outras se afastam ou foram afastadas e que é, se me permitem, Quem Sou Eu? Interrogo-me e a resposta consiste, obcecantemente, invariavelmente, assim: Uma Merda.

deixava que me tocasse, não lhe tocava, custa-me tocar nas pessoas, herdei isto de si, pai, não é que não me apeteça, há alturas em que me apetece mas se tocasse dissolvia-me nelas e não tornava a ser eu

Like a Columbus of the heart, mind and soul I have hurled myself off the shores of my own fears and limiting beliefs to venture far out into the uncharted territories of my inner truth, in search of what it means to be genuine and at peace with who I really am. I have abandoned the masquerade of living up to the expectations of others and explored the new horizons of what it means to be truly and completely me, in all my amazing imperfection and most splendid insecurity.

You are born of spirit. You cannot become more spiritual. Set your inner spiritual being free.

So they will continue until such time as a spiritual awakening takes place. Pressure is never brought to bear upon these souls; their mental resurrection must come from within themselves.

EAT YOUR OWN FRUIT A disciple once complained, "You tell us stories, but you never reveal their meaning to us." Said the master, "How would you like it if someone offered you fruit and masticated it before giving it to you?" No one can find your meaning for you. Not even the master.

Hardly anyone has been told the following truth: In order to be genuinely happy there is one and only one thing you need to do: get deprogrammed, get rid of those attachments.

That's what spirituality is all about, you know: unlearning. Unlearning all the rubbish they taught you.

The spiritual quest is a journey without distance. You travel from where you are right now to where you have always been. From ignorance to recognition, for all you do is see for the first time what you have always been looking at. Who ever heard of a path that brings you to yourself or a method that makes you what you have always been? Spirituality, after all, is only a matter of becoming what you really are.

Am I following a path already laid out for me, or am I making it myself?

He should have risked more. It has taken him his whole life to accept himself, and he is surprised to understand that now that he can, he does not long for one more year, one more month: eighty-six years has been enough.

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We all grew up before we we're grown up.

Don't be so quick to dismiss yourself," he says. "Sometimes the things we think are lost are only hidden, waiting to be rediscovered.

What a fool I was. What was this hunger that drove me to seek more than what I already had?

She'd been naked in her pool, floating on her back, when she realized that her life—two kids, a three-story Tudor, an Audi wagon—was not what she wanted.

the only person who knows your path to greatness is you.

Every man's life, he realized suddenly, was to some degree a journey into the unknown, undertaken to understand himself.

I learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It's a voice of pain and victory.

I couldn't see myself as some twenty-first century Shirley Valentine, sitting on the rocks, a thousand miles from the nearest Waterstones.

I look on my divorce as a cleansing process. The water runs foul only when you step into the shower.' 'I'm sure.

To live in prison is to live without mirrors. To live without mirrors is to live without the self.

Murdoch Mysteries' has provided me with an opportunity to expand my craft and have learned so much about myself, about directing, acting and contributing the entertainment industry in ways that I wouldn't have imagined before.

Everyone needs a creative outlet to express themselves, and the arts in school provides that.