Quotes about Self-discovery

It is tragic how few people ever 'possess their souls' before they die. 'Nothing is more rare in any man,' says Emerson, 'than an act of his own.' It is quite true. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are some one else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

If you look at their intentions, examine their motives, and scrutinize what brings them contentment — how can people hide who they are? How can they hide who they really are?

It's a life's work to see yourself for what you really are and even then you might be wrong. And that is something I don't want to be wrong about.

Those that go searching for love only make manifest their own lovelessness, and the loveless never find love, only the loving find love, and they never have to seek for it.

The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being.

Connie woke up to the existence of legs. They became more important to her than faces, which are no longer very real.

What we mean is that people may go on, keep on, and rush on, without souls. They have their ego and their will, that is enough to keep them going.

I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness. All seems beautiful to me. Whoever denies me, it shall not trouble me; Whoever accepts me, he or she shall be blessed, and shall bless me.

From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines.

Dismiss whatever insults your own soul; And your very flesh shall be a great poem…

I am larger, better than I thought, / I did not know I held so much goodness

Not I, not any one else can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself.