Quotes About Self-discovery

reaching toward God has made me more me and not less me. I was always afraid you would erase me. Instead, you are helping me to sketch me in.

He used to tell me, 'Do what you like to do. It'll probably turn out to be what you do best.

Do what you like to do. It'll probably turn out to be what you do best.

I didn't know myself well, and still don't. But I did know, and know now, the few people I loved and trusted. My feeling for them is one part of me I have never quarreled with, even though my relations with them have more than once been abrasive.

girl of eighteen named Elsa Norgaard,

Be open, be available, be exposed, be skinless. Skinless? Dance around in your bones.

The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.

that's the funny thing about mazes: what's baffling on the ground begins to makes sense when you can begin to rise above it, the better to understand your history and fix yourself". (p. 717)

M]an's emancipation depends on his own realization of Truth, and not on the benevolent grace of a god or any external power as a reward for his obedient good behaviour.

From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines, Going where I list, my own master total and absolute, Listening to others, considering well what they say, Pausing, searching, receiving, contemplating, Gently, but with undeniable will, divesting myself of the holds that would hold me.

Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons.

Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself. It is not far. It is within reach. Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know. Perhaps it is everywhere - on water and land.

I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.

Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul.

Reexamine all that you have been told in school, or in church or in any book. Dismiss whatever insults your soul.

A great painter of men must (as has been said) have a faculty of conversing, but he must also have a capacity for solitude. There is much of mankind that a man can only learn from himself.

I know I'm tired of thinking about what I should have done yesterday. I know I'm just tired. If I knew what to do with my life, how to fix it up, I would have done it a long time ago. You can't dig that? You think I want to live like I'm somebody's throwaway?

And what I was feeling was the wonder Of being more than me, of being more Than mere here and now allowed I had become a shining star, a burning nova Exploded with love Flying through an endlessly Expanding universe Away from the me that was Toward a me that is beyond Understanding.

Most of us are searching-consciously or unconsciously- for a degree of internal balance and harmony between ourselves and the outside world, and if we happen to become aware-like Stravinsky- of a volcano within us, we will compensate by urging restraint. By that same token, someone who bore a glacier within them might urge passionate abandon. The danger is, as Bergman points out, that a glacial personality in need of passionate abandon may read Stravinsky and apply restraint instead.

El individuo ha luchado siempre para no ser absorbido por la tribu. Si lo intentas, a menudo estarás solo y a veces asustado. Pero ningún precio es demasiado alto por el privilegio de ser uno mismo. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

La vida no se trata de encontrarte a ti mismo, la vida se trata de crearte a ti mismo. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

No imploro con temor ansioso ser salvado, sino esperanza para ir logrando, paciente, mi propia libertad".

Infinidad de personas en el mundo se han quedado atrapadas en nichos emocionales a la espera de que su suerte cambie, sin ver que son ellas mismas quienes deben hacer su revolución afectiva. Cada quien reinventa el amor a su manera y de acuerdo con sus necesidades y creencias básicas, cada quien lo construye o lo destruye, lo disfruta

imposible aprender a quererte a ti mismo si no aceptas vivir intensamente.