Quotes About Self-discovery

With the last sentence Blyth stumbles across the credo of all adventurers, be they sailors, mountaineers, or explorers. The where and how is simply the means to burrow as deeply as posssible into oneself. It's the answer to the relentless question that floods the mind when the exercise becomes painful and severe: What am I doing here? What's the point?

Forget forgetting. We seek to forget ourselves, to be surprised and to do something without knowing how or why. The way of life is wonderful. It is by abandonment.

Si una avanza confiada en dirección a sus sueños, encontrará un éxito inesperado en horas ordinarias. Atravesará un límite invisible. No olviden esto. No olviden que el pensamiento puede interponerse. Olviden olvidar. Buscamos olvidarnos de nosotros mismos, sorprendernos y hacer cosas sin saber cómo ni por qué. El camino de la vida es maravilloso. Se hace de abandono.

Rabbi Zusya, when he was an old man, said, "In the coming world, they will not ask me: 'Why were you not Moses?' They will ask me, 'Why were you not Zusya?' "4 The true vocation for every human being is, as Kierkegaard said, "the will to be oneself.

The vast majority of us go to our graves without knowing who we are.

Am I growing in the freedom God gave me?

The true vocation for every human being is, as Kierkegaard said, "the will to be oneself."5

no other person has ever lived your life. You may be wondering what will happen if you engage in this journey of emotionally healthy spirituality, if you take seriously God's purpose for you to increasingly live faithfully out of the life he has given you.

The vast majority of us go to our graves without knowing who we are. We unconsciously live someone else's life, or at least someone else's expectations for us. This does violence to ourselves, our relationship with God, and ultimately to others.

For this reason the famous Hasidic story of Rabbi Zusya remains so important for us today: Rabbi Zusya, when he was an old man, said, "In the coming world, they will not ask me: 'Why were you not Moses?' They will ask me, 'Why were you not Zusya?

even the worst and most painful family experiences are part of our total identity. God had a plan in placing us in our particular families and cultures. And the more we know about our families, the more we know about ourselves—and the more freedom we have to make decisions how we want to live. We can say: "This is what I want to keep. This is what I do not want to bring with me to the next generation.

The late Dag Hammarskjöld, once the secretary general of the United Nations, suggested that we have become adept at exploring outer space, but we have not developed similar skills in exploring our own personal inner spaces. He wrote, "The longest journey of any person is the journey inward."4 Most of us feel much more equipped to manipulate objects, control situations, and "do" things than to take that very long journey inward. Painful Honesty

Nu er troldommen hævet i zonerne for den tidlige stivnen. Fordi nogen går bagved, bliver ensomhed til frihed. De områder, der før på grund af den tidligt manglende kærlighed var forurenede, bliver nu tilgængelige. Selv når der ikke mere går en terapeut bagved, står erfaringen tilbage: 'Det går; jeg går. Jeg ved nu, hvad jeg skal gøre for at leve.

Absolut norm, absolut moral, et absolut 'du skal' indebærer altid adskillelse fra livet og tab af selvkærlighed. Behovet for tryghed tilfredsstilles for en tid, men så vokser nedtryktheden. Uelskede, der håber at få kærlighed igennem deres egen underkastelse, genfinder sig selv i uelskethedens 'normale' følelse.

Dove finisce uno Stato e dove inizia l'io? Siamo di nuovo qualcuno. In questa frase disturba quel 'di nuovo'. Per diventare finalmente qualcuno, bisogna prima essere stati nessuno.

Kendimi bulduÄŸumu zannettiÄŸim zamanlar nefretten boÄŸuluyorum.

Dü?ün ki her an ben de?i?iyorum, her an sen de?i?iyorsun, buna ra?men birbirimizi nas?l tan?yabiliyoruz? Bu kaçan benliklerimizi birbirimizde aramak tecessüsü olmasayd? bir saniye konu?abilir miydik?

What, exactly, am I going to do with my life?

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are. JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Credo che il motivo per cui gli adulti pensavo che una terapia regolare funzioni è perché, mentre la fanno, il tempo passa. Non stanno meglio perché ne parlano. Stanno meglio perché il tempo trascorre e loro imparano a vivere le loro vite perché devono farlo. Dobbiamo farlo

I think the reason grown-ups think regular therapy works is because time passes while they're in it. They're not really getting better because they're talking about it. They're getting better because time is passing and they're learning to live their lives again because they have to. We have to.

Ultimately, the purpose of magic is to free our potential, not bind us to ideas.

I can't help thinking that life isn't just about working out who we are and what makes us tick, it's also about understanding why we aren't where we ever expected to be.

It will be worth it, if in the end I manage To blank out whatever it is that is doing the damage. Then there will be nothing I know. My mind will fold into itself, like fields, like snow.