Quotes About Self-discovery

truths, and he wanted to examine everything himself." Dudman allowed Jobs to audit classes and stay with friends in the dorms even after he stopped paying tuition. "The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting," he said. Among them was a calligraphy class that appealed to him

said. But his father again bent to his will. "He wanted me to promise that I'd never use pot again, but I wouldn't promise." In fact by his senior year he was also dabbling in LSD and hash as well as exploring the mind-bending effects of sleep deprivation. "I

The reader is always looking for two things in the novel: themselves and transcendence.

You don't learn journalism in school, you learn it by WRITING FUCKING JOURNALISM. You teach yourself to wire up your own brain and gut and reproductive organs into one frightening machine that you aim at the planet like a meat gun.

And I had loved her, I had at least once in my life been capable of that, able to escape my self long enough to love. Suddenly, the unacknowledged sorrows and blunders of my life surged up in me all at once. I thought I would be sick. I gasped, put my hand over my mouth until tears began collecting on my fingers. I took my hand away and looked at it as if I had just discovered I was bleeding.

Your teacher might be a child who takes you by the hand and asks you a question that you hadn't considered before, and your answer to the child is your answer to yourself.

Focus on understanding yourself instead of blaming others.

Listen to your music, and do what you know you have to do to feel whole, to feel complete, and to feel as if you're fulfilling your destiny. You'll never be at peace if you don't get that music out and let it play. Let the world know why you're here, and do it with passion.

When there is silence, one finds the anchor of the universe within oneself.

You don't have to be attached to what you've been. What you've been is just the choices that you made once upon a time, and you always have the power to change your mind.

The spiritual journey does not consist in arriving at a new destination where a person gains what he did not have, or becomes what he is not. It consists in the dissipation of one's own ignorance concerning one's self and life, and the gradual growth of that understanding which begins the spiritual awakening. The finding of God is a coming to one's self.

If you want to find deeper meaning in your life, you can't find it in the opinions or the beliefs that have been handed to you. You have to go to that place within yourself.

There is just one life for each of us: our own. — Euripides

I'm sure you've heard the saying, "Wherever I go, there I am." This means that you've always got yourself to deal with, so you should only be concerned with consulting your inner signals.

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wisdom is unrelated to one's potential personal greatness.

perfect joy is found in the absence of striving for it, and instead realizing it is within you.

look within for the Source of enlightenment and strength

understand the great within yourself.

My book is developing into a guide for cutting through a lifetime of emotional red tape. I've written it not because of my advanced educational training, but more in spite of it.

true mastery can only be gained by freeing yourself of attachments to things

O I could sing such grandeurs and glories about you! You have not known what you are, you have slumber'd upon yourself all your life, Your eyelids have been the same as closed most of the time…   Whoever you are! claim your own at any hazard! These shows of the East and West are tame compared to you, These immense meadows, these interminable rivers, you are immense and interminable as they…

Your greatness won't be found in a classroom; an apprenticeship; a teacher; or flattering comments from well-meaning family members, friends, or lovers. It is within you.

Hold on to the center. Man was made to sit quietly and find the truth within.