Quotes About Self-discovery

Once you learn how to learn, you have only to discover what is worth learning. Summarized

Somehow the anger had taken me beyond my own preconceived limitations; it took me beyond caution.

So there is more to skiing than learning parallel turns. For the skier who recognizes the further possibilities his sport offers for learning how to learn, for overcoming fears and self-doubt, for gaining concentration and appreciation for nature, skiing becomes re-creation in the original sense of the word: an opportunity to discover something important about oneself and to learn skills that improve not only one's skiing but the quality of one's life.

The awareness instruction, on the other hand, asks only one thing of the conscious mind: Pay attention to what is happening. There is no doubt because there is no right way or wrong way, and there is no fear of failure because there is no externally implied standard for success. Yet the body learns because it is now free to focus on what feels good and to see for itself what works.

I look at my own body With eyes no longer blind— And I see that my own hands can make The world that's in my mind. Then let us hurry, comrades, The road to find.

She, In the dark, Found light Brighter than many ever see. She, Within herself, Found loveliness, Through the soul's own mastery. And now the world receives From her dower: The message of the strength Of inner power.

There is no need to run outside for better seeing... Rather abide at the center of your being For the more you leave it the less you learn. Search your heart and see... The way to do is to be.

After a year in therapy, my psychiatrist said to me, 'Maybe life isn't or everyone.

A date is an experience you have with another person that makes you appreciate being alone.

There are three roles one can play as a homosexual: one involving being the daddy to someone who is the son, another, therefore, being the sonny to that pop, the third involving looking for yourself in someone approximately identical to you.

A cleaner and wiser Fred Lemish now re-enters his Champion boxer shorts and leaves his Dinky Adams. In his garden. His beautiful magical garden

Nobody run off with her," Roscoe said. "She just run off with herself, I guess.

I broke up with someone, and she said, "You'll never find anyone like me again." And I'm thinking, I hope not! If I don't want you, why would I want someone just like you? Does anybody end a bad relationship and say, "By the way, do you have a twin?"

Actually, however, all the wisdom we need is inside us, where this epic drama is taking place.

And isn't that the only reason to read, W. says: to experience your limits anew? To experience your idiocy?

These things...they are who you are. They brought you here. To this day. You didn't give me a chance to understand that ever the unattractive parts of you, the messy parts, were something I could accept.

The art of being yourself at your best is the art of unfolding your personality into the person you want to be. Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude towards others. —WILFRED PETERSON

Freedom, I am beginning to realize, means not even being aware you're free.

May you realize your own freedom.

You learned that it was easy frighteningly easy to get lost in someone else's life accommodating him and stop being yourself. You learned to be wary about falling in love. And you learned that someone who loved you could stop loving you for some dark reason and even though that was bruising you were more resilient than you knew. Eventually you would get over it more or less.

Ahora tú debes decidir si seguirás siendo una oyente o, por el contrario, saldrás en busca de tu propia historia.

Ahora tu debes decidir si seguirás siendo una oyente, o, por el contrario, saldrás en busca de tu propia historia. Oki

Entonces,olvida ahora quién soy y lo que he hecho y déjate llevar por tu corazón.

Y, por primera vez en su viaje, Bipa tuvo auténtico pánico. Deseó regresar corriendo a casa, recuperar su vida, su aspecto, su identidad. Siempre había sido consciente de que en aquella búsqueda podía llegar a perder la vida, pero, por algún motivo, eso no le parecía tan terrible como perderse a sí misma.