Quotes About Self-discovery

All liberation is loneliness

each moment of being herself, she knew, was a strengthening, an adapting, of who she was; and she didn't want to be who she was—that she would squeak a little.

She told me once that she sometimes feels caught between two worlds at school -like she has to decide who she is instead of just being who she is.

We see how our reactions to our emotions can keep us at a distance from ourselves.

Becoming aware of our emotional patterns gives us an idea of where our attachments—and so our clinging and misperception—are especially thick.

Buddhist psychology acknowledges our disturbing emotions but sees them as covering our essential goodness like clouds covering the sun.

Awakening self-compassion is often the greatest challenge people face on the spiritual path.

On this sacred path of Radical Acceptance, rather than striving for perfection, we discover how to love ourselves into wholeness.

You have a unique body and mind, with a particular history and conditioning. No one can offer you a formula for navigating all situations and all states of mind. Only by listening inwardly in a fresh and open way will you discern at any given time what most serves your healing and freedom.

Suffering is our call to attention, our call to investigate the truth of our beliefs.

Spiritual awakening is the process of recognizing our essential goodness, our natural wisdom and compassion.

We speak about losing our minds as if it is a bad thing. I say, lose your mind. Do it purposefully. Find out who you really are beyond your thoughts and beliefs. • VIRONIKA TUGALEVA

Taking our hands off the controls and pausing is an opportunity to clearly see the wants and fears that are driving us.... Often the moment when we most need to pause is exactly when it feels most intolerable to do so.

I am larger and better than I thought. I did not think I held so much goodness. Walt Whitman

She could find the cure through being with the pain.

it is our mistaken perception of who we are that's causing the difficulty.

we have to go forth in order to come back, plunge into time in order to be born anew, and roam the world in order to get back to ourselves at last.

Što manje znaš šta si ti, više se plašiš onoga što nisi ti.

At least as a single woman, I had time to pursue my own interests, read voraciously, and travel when opportunity presented.

It is, in effect, as though we forget who and what we most truly are, and thus must labor to remember ourselves and reintegrate ourselves to the state of the person of light who is united with divine being in the light-continuum.

Break your own heart, or they will break it for you.

Olive brought me into this world and trained me up to be the man I recognized as myself. But Celestial was the portal to the rest of my life, the shiny door to the next level.

He stood again and cried, not like a baby, but in a way only a grown man can cry, from the bottom of his feet up through his torso and finally through his mouth. When a man wails like that you know it's all the tears that he was never allowed to shed, from Little League disappointment to teenage heartbreak, all the way to whatever injured his spirit just last year.

But with my mother and Celestial, I was actually split down the middle. Olive brought me into this world and trained me up to be the man I recognized as myself. But Celestial was the portal to the rest of my life, the shiny door to the next level.