Quotes About Self-discovery

It was Friday, July 24, 1992, when I stepped on the train. Every year I think of it. I see it as my real birthday: the birth of me as a person, making decisions about my life on my own. I was not running away from Islam, or to democracy. I didn't have any big ideas then. I was just a young girl and wanted some way to be me; so I bolted into the unknown.

Most of all, I think it was the novels that saved me from submission. I was young, but the first tiny, meek beginnings of my rebellion had already clicked into place.

If the words "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn't

You have a fullness you need to bring out. It's not an emptiness you need to cover up with things.

I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It's a way of life for me.

What we are looking for lies within us, and if we gave our time and energy to an interior search, we would come across it much faster, since that is the only place where it is to be found.

The more you give of yourself, the more you find of yourself.

It takes no deep insight to see that the source of both our well-being and our maladies lies within our own hearts and minds. To change our experience of life we must inevitably change our hearts and minds, or rather our heart/minds.

Solitary meditation doesn't cause mental imbalances, but uncovers them.

The mind that reaches out to other people, to the environment, to provide what it seems to lack itself, is a mind that is ignorant of its own resources for peace and happiness.

What is the meaning to life? Life is not such a small imisible spec as to only have one meaning. It is up to each individual to identify their own meaning of life. Or to say that their is not one. The answer lies with you.

As a beam of sunlight sent through a room will at once reveal numberless motes floating in the air of the room, so a ray of Divine love let into the heart will immediately make visible to us a cloud of imperfections of which we were before entirely unaware.

Once you remove any hint of judgment, changing your habits becomes an uplifting journey of self-discovery.

When we free ourselves from physical disabilities, emotional disturbances, and mental distractions, we open the gates to our soul.

Yoga is the teacher of yoga; yoga is to be understood through yoga. So live in yoga to realize yoga; comprehend yoga through yoga; he who is free from distractions enjoys yoga through yoga.

The mind is the main instrument to gain enlightenment, but enlightenment is only reached when the mind stops. Q: How can we stop the mind? A: Not hitting it with a hammer. Stop the mind by the mind.

I'm not afraid of a rant, am I? I've got to that point where I've just become a woman; I think I've just grown.

Eventually, I started to actually enjoy rapping.

Rapping was a joke, but the music helped me break out of my shell.

When I was 16, I was rapping just to rap.

I don't think that the next generation should fear just being who they are rather than confirming to an expectation of what they are meant to be.

When you walk around, you have all this stuff rattling around in your head, things that have happened to you, things you have read. Life is just life, and you get what you get out of it.

I'd reached a point where there was a direct conflict between what I was trying to be and who I really was.

That's a song about reaching deep inside yourself where you can completely be who you are.