Quotes About Self-discovery

Maybe the past is like an anchor holdong us back. Maybe you have to let go of who you were to become who you will be.

There is a universal saying to the effect that it is when men are off in the wilds that they show themselves as they really are

I think perhaps love comes from finding someone you feel utterly comfortable with, someone who makes you comfortable with yourself. It's like...finding yourself, or maybe it's like finding the other part of yourself.

If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you. Jesus, Gospel of Thomas

Now they must be directed toward an inner, psychological reality. "No one thought of looking for the promised land where it is, and yet it lies so nearby. There it is: inside ourselves!… The promised land is wherever we carry it!

Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something.

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart ... Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.

When an inner situation is not made conscious it appears outside as fate.

Aquel que no ha pasado a traves del infierno de sus pasiones, no las ha superado nunca...

Pogled se ti bo razjasnil šele, ko se boš zazrl v svoje srce. Kdor zre navzven, sanja. Kdor gleda navznoter, se prebudi.

YaÅŸam?m?n anlam?, yaÅŸam?n bana yönelttiÄŸi sorudad?r ya da tam tersi, ben kendim dünyaya yöneltilen bir soruyum ve yan?t?m? ona söylemezsem onun verdiÄŸi yan?ta baÄŸl? kalmak zorunda kal?r?m.

La soledad es peligrosa. Es adictiva. Una vez que te das cuenta de cuánta paz hay en ella, no quieres lidiar con la gente".

The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.

Space flights are merely an escape, a fleeing away from oneself, because it is easier to go to Mars or to the moon than it is to penetrate one's own being.

One who looks outside, dreams. One who looks inside, awakens.

His retreat into himself is not a final renunciation of the world, but a search for quietude, where alone it is possible for him to make his contribution to the life of the community.

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

What is not brought to consciousness, comes to us as fate.

The world will ask who you are, and if you do not know, the world will tell you.

In the interview, he gave an example of a man who falls head over heels in love, then later in life regrets his blind choice as he finds that he has married his own anima–the unconscious idea of the feminine in his mind, rather than the woman herself.