Quotes About Self-discovery

There is only one way and that is your way. There is only one salvation and that is your salvation...What is to come will be created in you and from you. Hence look into yourself. Do not compare. Do not measure. No other way is like yours...You must fulfill the way that is in you.

Until you allow the unconscious to become conscious, it will rise up to you as your life and you will call it your fate

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid their own souls.

Tvoja ?e vizija postati jasna tek kada se zagledaš u svoje srce. Onaj tko gleda prema van, sanja. Onaj koji gleda prema unutra, budi se'.

Those who look outside, dream; those who look inside, awaken.

Non foras ire, in interiore homine habitat veritas' (Go not outside; truth dwells in the inner man).

By not being aware of having a shadow, you declare a part of your personality to be non-existent. Then it enters the kingdom of the non-existent, which swells up and takes on enormous proportions…If you get rid of qualities you don't like by denying them, you become more and more unaware of what you are, you declare yourself more and more non-existent, and your devils will grow fatter and fatter.

in order to undergo a far-reaching psychological development, neither outstanding intelligence nor any other talent is necessary. . .

For River to discover himself in Rimbaud's life and Miller's prose was simultaneously self-aggrandizing and self-pitying. Tellingly, he was more interested in Miller's book than in Rimbaud's actual writing: he responded to Rimbaud not as a poet, but as a symbol.

Put down the flashlight, pick up the mirror.

the Upper Limit Problem cannot be solved in the usual way we solve problems: by gathering information or replacing one set of information with another. The Upper Limit Problem must be dis-solved, not solved. You dissolve it by shining a laserlike beam of awareness on its underpinnings—the false foundations that hold the Upper Limit Problem in place. When you shine the light of awareness on the underpinnings, they disappear.

Big Leap Web site.

The problem is that a deep, sacred part of you will wither and die if you stay inside your Zone of Excellence

Gay Hendricks

I don't know who I am. Or maybe I do know who I am and I just don't want to be her anymore.

So, this is how it's become? This is how I've become? A walking contradiction? I'm surrounded by people and feel alone. I claim to crave a bit of normalcy but now that I have some, it's like I don't know what to do with it, I don't know how to be a normal person anymore.

The people we pretend at, they're already in us. That's why we pretend them in the first place.

Because that day with Willem, I may have pretended to be someone named Lulu, but I had never been more honest in my life. Maybe that's the thing with liberation. It comes at a price.

Are you coming down with something?" Mom asks. And just for the tiniest of seconds, I wonder what would happen if I told them the truth. That school is nothing like I imagined it would be. That I'm not the girl in the catalog at all. I'm not a Happy College Student. I don't know who I am. Or maybe I do know who I am and I just don't want to be her anymore.

This is myself, baby. All of my selves. I own each and every one of them. I know who I'm pretending to be and who I am." The look he gives me is withering. "Do you?

I don't know how to be a friend. I don't know how to be anything.

I'm also starting to wonder something else. If maybe the point of this crazy quest I'm on wasn't to help me find Willem. Maybe it was to help me find someone else entirely.

Y es allí cuando entiendo que he sido manchada. Ya sea porque todavía estoy enamorada de él, ya sea porque el alguna vez estuvo enamorado de mí, y no importa de quien esté enamorado ahora, Willen cambió mi vida. Me enseñó cómo perderme, y yo me mostré como encontrarme.

More and more lately it seems as though the majority of my conversations are with myself.