Quotes About Self-discovery

Marion discovered an underlying theme in her clients' dreams. She discovered that her addicted clients lived divided lives—lives split between body and soul, between perfection and imperfection, between light and dark. Healing came about through integrating these "pairs of opposites." She came into an understanding of the way in which longing for our idealized images of life separates us from our true selves and from our true callings.

In his late teens, and probably as a result of Neefe's coaching, Beethoven began to read widely and voraciously. This is when he began to frame his life as a quest to

I was not made for man," Anthony would later declare flatly. "I was made for God. And I was made for myself.

If you bring forth what is within you it will save you. Yes.

When you know who you are, you will know how to act.

Each of us must find the form that allows this naming, this working through, and, finally, this mastery. We may find these forms in sports, in the arts, in finance, in academia, in relationship building, in child-rearing—or, indeed, in stamp collecting. But find them we must.

Initiations are opportunities for us to grow larger. They are death channels. And they are birth channels. They allow us the opportunity to integrate more of our self—more possibility, more reality, more sensation, more feeling. They require everything we've got. They destroy us to re-create us.

When you're feeling lonely and no one is around Remember to look inside yourself and a best friend will be found

In the desertI saw a creature, naked, bestial,Who, squatting upon the ground,Held his heart in his hands,And ate of it.I said, "Is it good, friend?""It is bitter—bitter," he answered;"But I like it"Because it is bitter,"And because it is my heart."

I've narrowed it down to nobody

I've tried to become someone else for a while, only to discover that he, too, was me.

I make myself up from everything I am, or could be. For many years I was more desire than fact. When I stop becoming, that's when I worry.

A stranger can see in an instant something in you that you might spend years learning about yourself. How awful we all are when we look at ourselves under a light, finally seeing our reflections. How little we know about ourselves. How much forgiveness it must take to love a person, to choose not to see their flaws, or to see those flaws and love the person anyway. If you never forgive you'll always be alone.

According to Jung, a stranger can see in an instant something in you that you might spend years learning about yourself.

We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing - an actor, a writer - I am a person who does things - I write, I act - and I never know what I'm going to do next. I think you can be imprisoned if you think of yourself as a noun.

[N]egative experiences... and separation from our second side cause most of us to reach adulthood as second-hand people.

And as he quite rightly went on to say . . . For man has closed himself up, till he sees thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.

It makes sense: to embrace one's sapphic feelings—to come out to oneself—is necessarily to rethink the world.

Your true heart is best revealed in secret. In other words, the secret you is the real you.

No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side. Or you don't.

Until we find out who was born this time around, it seems irrelevant to seek earlier identities. I have heard many people speak of who they believe they were in previous incarnations, but they seem to have very little idea of who they are in this one. . . . Let's take one life at a time. Perhaps the best way to do that is to live as though there were no afterlife or reincarnation. To live as though this moment was all that was allotted. (132)

Your horrific time of trouble offered you truths about yourself, windows into your own soul, and maps to the terrain of your inner life. Wise people learn to gather this intelligence to help them conquer themselves and then to live in loftier ways.

Money can turn into everything but we can only turn into ourselves.

Ultimately, the only techniques that can help us are those we invent ourselves.