Quotes About Self-discovery

We're responsible. We have control. The clear nature of our mind is always there, waiting to be revealed when the clouds of the disturbing attitudes are dispelled. This is our human beauty; this is our potential.

We can look at our work as service to society and as an opportunity to learn more about ourselves by interacting with others. Our work will thus become an occasion to practice the teachings that we meditate on.

These days, people study and train to become psychologists. Lord Buddha's idea is that everybody should become a psychologist. Each of you should know your own mind; you should become your own psychologist. This is definitely possible; every human being has the ability to understand his or her own mind. When you understand your own mind, control follows naturally.

This new Eva, the free Eva, was tired of being rattled by life. How long had she lived being too terrified to show her real self? There was power in showing the messiness of her life and what it took to hold it together.

Running away wasn't empowering. An empowered woman would've indulged.

Go." "Can't." Eva shook her head. "It'd require breaking myself open." "Why don't you want to?" "It's a mess in there," she said hollowly. He wondered when the last time she'd fallen apart in front of someone was. "But that's the good stuff," he insisted. "It's you.

Because I barely survived Shane Hall. I barely survived myself. It was a dark time. My home life was traumatic. I was a chaotic, angry kid. Why reminisce?

The first time it happened was when Shane was seven, the terrible event that had sent him hurtling from foster home to foster home, where he learned new crimes, new dysfunctions, new ways to be unloved. That was one piece of it. The other was every time he broke his arm, it hurt, but when it dulled, he'd be shot through with this remarkable insight about himself. It was the only time he saw who he was, crystal clear.

This new Eva, the free Eva, was tired of being rattled by life. How long had she lived being rattled by life. How long had she lived being too terrified to show her real self? There was power in showing the messiness of her life and what it took to hold it together.

During his lost years, he hadn't wanted people to see how unstable he was. Of course, sobriety had shown him that everyone was a little bit off. His shit was just closer to the surface.

Moving to New York was about reinvention. If you didn't want that, you stayed in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

Nothing is better, no reward greater than our true connection with ourselves, and through that we can reach out and really touch another. Working through trauma pulls us from the surface of life into the wellspring from which we learn who we really are.

Sometimes the most consequential moments in my life originate from a state of completely witless human auto-pilot.

Don't you understand? The answer is inside each of you! Don't follow anyone else! Be your own leader! Lead yourselves!

The fundamental motif at the heart of many ancient myths is that the primal oneness of being is manifesting as the multiplicity of life, so that it can come to know itself. As the Gnostic sage Simon Magus says in 'The Great Announcement': There is one power… begetting itself, increasing itself, seeking itself, finding itself… One root of the All.

she said she didn't think he should be Trevor, but rather just himself.

I've always wanted to be my own person. Even when I was 'Noah who rode horses,' I wanted to be Noah Cyrus, not anyone else or a family member.

Everyone has something that blocks us from the full experience and expression of our nobility.

The beauty of knowing yourself is nobody else has to.

Nobody else can tell you what you are.

Do you, and the rest is background noise.

The biggest thing I've learnt is not to limit myself by the norm or what I should be doing.

It's not a normal every day thing to see yourself with fur, but I loved it.

When I left home, I was a very normal kid with no insecurities or issues, but that was just the beginning.