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Quotes About Self-discovery

You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
~ Alan W. Watts
Given that we can live only a small part of what there is in us -- what happens with the rest?
~ Pascal Mercier
To know yourself you need not go to any book, to any priest, to any psychologist. The whole treasure is within yourself.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.
~ May Sarton
Will you gather daydreams or will you gather wealth? How can you find your fortune when you cannot find yourself?
~ Gordon Lightfoot
It's an inside job to learn about forgiving, it's an inside job to hang on to the joy of living.
~ Don Henley
If I had followed the multitude, I should not have studied philosophy.
~ Chrysippus
There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.
~ John Fowles
Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.
~ Jack Kornfield
Turn away from your animal kind, try to leave your body, just to live in your mind.
~ James Taylor
In philosophy an individual is becoming himself.
~ Bernard Lonergan
Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely because they resemble us.
~ Emil M. Cioran
The question to everyone's answer is usually asked from within.
~ Steve Miller
You've got a degree in philosophy; so you think you're cleverer than me. But I'm not just some drama queen. Cause it's where you're at, not where you've been.
~ Amy Winehouse
My philosophy is TRUTH unto me. Through expressing my individuality I become free.
~ Stuart Wilde
If you want to find the answers to the Big Questions about your soul, you'd best begin with the Little Answers about your body.
~ George A. Sheehan
There's no need to travel anywhere. Journey within yourself.
~ Rumi
Tantra means the avoidance of a set or defined form of spirituality. Tantra is intuitive self-discovery.
~ Frederick Lenz
Every person has two educations, one which he receives from others, and one, more important, which he gives to himself.
~ Edward Gibbon
If you find a Tantric master - he has you go and do all the things you hate to do.
~ Frederick Lenz
Without ego I don't know how identity works, I don't know... I need to sit down and re-read some philosophy or something.
~ Sophia Amoruso
There is nothing that you shouldn't do. Everything can be used as a tool for liberation.
~ Frederick Lenz
School gives you the freedom to explore different philosophies, religions, aspects of yourself, and subjects.
~ Leigh Steinberg
Once I know who I'm not, then I'll know who I am.
~ Alanis Morissette