Quotes About Self-discovery

Carl Jung said that if you find the psychic wound in an individual or a people, there you also find their path to consciousness. For it is in the healing of our psychic wounds that we come to know ourselves. . . . In the evolution of consciousness, our greatest problem is always our richest opportunity. ROBERT JOHNSON We: Understanding the Psychology of Romantic Love

we're broken open, brought to our knees, dragged into the underworld not to be tortured or because there's something wrong or disordered with us, but because there's something right and beautiful inside that is longing to be seen and known.

All transitional times afford us the opportunity to redefine who we are; when we are in between identities, we become like a blank slate on which our past, present, and possible future are illuminated.

Israel was born so Jews could finally cultivate their land with their own hands. But the most important thing to remember is that we depended more upon our brain than our muscle. We learned that the treasures hidden in ourselves are far greater than anything that can be found in the ground.

Self-study, self-exploration, self-empowerment — these are the virtues of a great education.

Educators don't necessarily have to teach. Instead, they can provide an environment and resources that tease out your natural ability to learn on your own.

Did you know that life is kind of like school? So how about when you're all done with the school of life,

At first, there is something you expect of life. Later, there is what life expects of you. By the time you realize these are the same, it can be too late for expectations. What we are being, not what we are to be. They are the same thing.

To learn what we fear is to learn who we are. Horror defies our boundaries and illuminates our souls.

The pain of leaving those you've grown to love is only the prelude to an understanding of yourself and others.

The job of the parent is not to impose his or her will on the child, but to get the child to listen to his or her own inner voice. Inspiration, not just prescription.

There is no particular way in true practice. You should find your own way, and you should know what kind of practice you have right now.

In your very imperfections you will find the basis for your firm, way-seeking mind.

keep finding yourself, moment after moment. This is the only thing for you to do.

it is a heretical view to expect something outside this world. We do not seek for something besides ourselves. We should find the truth in this world, through our difficulties, through our suffering.

The purpose of studying Buddhism is not to study Buddhism, but to study ourselves.

When we become truly ourselves, we just become a swinging door, and we are purely independent of, and at the same time, dependent upon everything. Without air, we cannot breathe.

It's hard to know yourself when you've never been tested.

The Mirror may have many uses however sooner or later one uses it for introspection!!!!

Because there was a hunger in me to see everything and do everything. I wanted to be everyone I saw. I wasn't enough for me. Can you understand that?

As I get older I'm more and more comfortable being alone.

Look into the depths of your own soul and learn first to know yourself, then you will understand why this illness was bound to come upon you and perhaps you will thenceforth avoid falling ill.

What we miss - what we lose and what we mourn - isn't it this that makes us who, deep down, we truly are. To say nothing of what we wanted in life but never got to have.

I realized I haven't even been thinking about stopping and starting at all. It's just like we are who we are with each other, and part of that is Daddy and boy.