Quotes About Self-discovery

Everything in your life is there as a vehicle for your transformation. Use it!

The cosmic humor is that if you desire to move mountains and you continue to purify yourself, ultimately you will arrive at the place where you are able to move mountains. But in order to arrive at this position of power you will have had to give up being he-who-wanted-to-move-mountains so that you can be he-who-put-the-mountain-there-in-the-first-place. The humor is that finally when you have the power to move the mountain, you are the person who placed it there--so there the mountain stays.

I think the message is that you don't need to go to anywhere else to find what you are seeking.

The spiritual journey is not about acquiring something outside yourself. Rather, you are penetrating the layers and veils to return to the deepest truth of your own being.

The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can't be organized or regulated. It isn't true that everybody should follow any one path. Listen to your own truth.

To live another's dharma, to try to be a Buddha or to be a Christ because Christ did it, doesn't get us there; it just makes us mimickers

you don't need to go to anywhere else to find what you are seeking.

You needed your whole self; and so you went and broke yourself, out of its grip, in pieces,painfully, because your need was great.

Often we are not aware of how close we are to that which we need but we think we do not have. In His grace, God has placed some hidden gold somewhere in all of us that meets our need at a desperate moment.

Sometimes in the shadows of one's self lie the problems, and in the shadows of one's shaping lie the answers.

Are we really ever completely our own person or have we been conditioned in ways beyond our own imagination?

The day that each person willingly accepts himself or herself for who he or she is and acknowledges the uniqueness of God's framing process marks the beginning of a journey to seeing the handiwork of God in each life.

last everything comes between you and what you'd like to be, and you've lost your true self forever.

Process is the amount of time we give ourselves to feel safe enough to admit what we already know is true.

Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spend the rest of the day putting the pieces together.

What are the best things and the worst things in your life, and when are you going to get around to whispering or shouting them?

I'm not anyone, I'm just myself; whatever I am, I am something, and now I'm something you can't help.

We never sit anything out. We are cups, quietly and constantly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

Men throw huge shadows on the lawn, don't they? Then, all their lives, they try to run to fit the shadows. But the shadows are always longer.

I sometimes get up at night when I can't sleep and walk down into my library and open one of my books and read a paragraph and say, 'My God, did I write that?

I feel alive for the first time in years. I feel I'm doing what I should've done a lifetime ago. For a little while I'm not afraid. Maybe it's because I'm doing the right thing at last. Maybe it's because I've done a rash thing and don't want to look the coward to you. I suppose I'll have to do even more violent things, exposing myself so I won't fall down on the job and turn scared again

What is Love? perhaps we may find that love is the ability of someone to give us back to us. Maybe love is someone seeing and remembering, handing us back to ourselves just a trifle better than we had dared to hope or dream...

Pasamos la vida entera aprendiendo a olvidar cosas que en realidad están dentro

But that was another Mildred so deep inside this one, and so bothered, really bothered, that the two women had never met.