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Quotes About Self-discovery

Fish cannot drown in water. Birds cannot sink in air. This has God given to all creatures, to foster and seek their own nature. How then can I withstand mine?
~ Mechthild of Magdeburg
Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something.
~ Carl Jung
What is most important is to go deep into ourselves and discover the loving kindness and compassion of the buddha within - the awakened nature we all possess.
~ Shinjo Ito
Nature chooses who will be transgender; individuals don't choose this.
~ Mercedes Ruehl
We must remember that knowledge of one's own deep nature is also simultaneously knowledge of human nature in general.
~ Abraham Maslow
Take a couple of days by yourself and rent a nice cabin in some nice, happy place. Stay a day or two and meditate and take walks in areas that feel good to you. Find out who you are again. Remember.
~ Frederick Lenz
We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or other people's models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open.
~ Shakti Gawain
I will walk where my own nature would be leading.
~ Emily Bronte
Take any path you like; follow any prophet you like; but have only that method which suits your own nature, so that you will be sure to progress.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Maybe what I do isn't going to be acknowledged by people, but that's me. It's my nature to do things that are weirder and less understood and that was a path I needed to take
~ John Frusciante
You know I am not born to tread in the beaten track the peculiar bent of my nature pushes me on.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft
The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.
~ Jack Kornfield
You don't really conquer a mountain, you conquer yourself. You overcome sickness & everything else - your pains, aches, fears - to reach the summit.
~ Jim Whittaker
The only effort worth making is the one it takes to learn the geography of one's own nature.
~ Paul Bowles
We're constantly changing and any practice meant to serve our authenticity should reflect our fluid nature.
~ Gabrielle Roth
We are meant to discover our authentic nature-the state of being in which we are inspired by ourselves, turned on, lit up, and excited about who we are.
~ Debbie Ford
He who goes to the bottom of his own heart knows his own nature; And knowing his own nature, he knows heaven.
~ Mencius
There is nothing to practice. To know yourself, be yourself. To be yourself, stop imagining yourself to be this or that. Just be. Let your true nature emerge. Don't disturb your mind with seeking.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Just be. Let your true nature emerge. Don't disturb your mind with seeking.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
You are meant to understand the nature of your inner self, and to manifest it outward.
~ Seth
Hunger, thirst, cold, fatigue, your own physical and mental limitations - you will feel all of these. This teaches you about nature, more than that, you come face to face with yourself
~ Willi Unsoeld
The only service you can do for anyone is to remind them of their true nature.
~ Stephen Levine
The psychedelics are this immense tool for the inspection of our own nature.
~ Terence McKenna
The more you go within, the more you understand your true nature, and the more joy and happiness you feel in your life.
~ Brian Weiss