Quotes About Self-revelation

It creates a secret you're too beautiful to keep

God defines himself as "I am who I am", which also means: My being is such that I shall always be present in every moment of becoming.

All good work requires self-revelation.

There's a oneness to showing yourself to an audience. They feel that. It's healthy. That's what acting is all about.

every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself. The reason I will not exhibit this picture is that I am afraid that I have shown in it the secret of my own soul.

But he felt afraid of him, and ashamed of being afraid. Why had it been left for a stranger to reveal him to himself?

I fancy you may tell the truth about yourself. But all of it? The black truth, which we all know ourselves in our hearts, or only the whity-brown truth of the pericardium, or the nice, whitened truth of the shirtfront? Even you [Mark Twain] won't tell the black heart's-truth. The man who could do it would be famed to the last day the sun shown upon.

Nothing is more real than the masks we make to show each other who we are.

2What you think you are is a belief to be undone, but what you really are must be revealed to you. 3The belief you are a body calls for correction, being a mistake.

There was enough hiding in life. Sometimes you just wanted to show somebody your tits.

I say I appear naked before you, but so often I whistle for my invisible armed guard; the gap-toothed, jeering, club-headed mob, my feelings, that are used to having me to themselves.

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?

Writing books is a socially acceptable form of getting naked in public.

Revelation is everything, not for its own sake, because most self-revelation is just garbage-- oop! --yes, but we have to purge the garbage, toss it out, throw it into a bunker and burn it, because it is fuel. It's fossil fuel. And what do we do with fossil fuel? Why, we dump it into a bunker and burn it, of course. No, we don't do that. But you get my meaning. It's endlessly renewable, usable without diminishing one's capacity to create more.

Sometimes he finds out he believes something that he doesn't even know he believed until it exits his mouth

We all have many more abilities and internal resources than we know. My advice is that you don't need to break your neck to find out about them.

When someone tells you who they are, believe them.

Por primera vez sentía placer al mostrarse desnudo, y no a una sola persona, sino a todo un grupo; en vez de pasar simplemente, se plantó delante de todos.

Like everyone else, Avery considers his inner world to be a scary, convoluted, inscrutable place. It is one thing to show someone your best, cleanest version. It's quite another to make him aware of your deeper, jagged self.

She was looking for something I could never give her." Again his dark eyes bored into Julia's mind. "You have something of the same about you, young woman. Take my advice: Don't think you will find it in another person. You won't. It's not there. You must find it in yourself.

Ibn El-Arabi escribió: "El Maestro es quien te escucha, luego te desvela frente a ti mismo".

A guilty conscious always exposes it's self.

I cannot be the only one who believes that if others just saw who I really was, then I would be understood and, perhaps, loved. But what would happen if one took off the mask and the other saw one not with love but with horror, disgust, anger? What if the self that one exposes is as unpleasing to others as the mask, or even worse?

I cannot be the only one who believes that if others just saw who I really was, then I would be understood and, perhaps, loved.