Quotes about Self-discovery

They thought that it would be a disgrace to go forth as a group. Each entered the forest at a point that he himself had chosen, where it was darkest and there was no path. If there is a path it is someone else's path and you are not on the adventure.

The problem of the hero is to pierce himself (and therewith his world) precisely through that point; to shatter and annihilate that key knot of his limited existence.

God is within you! You yourself are the creator. If you find that place within you from which you brought this thing about, you will be able to live with it and affirm it, perhaps even enjoy it, as your life.

You have to learn to recognize your own depths.

Where there is a way or a path, it's someone else's way.

When you don't have a job (requiring reading) and you are doing your own reading you've got deep psychological questions. As deep as those of a little boy.

Our life evokes our character. You find out more about yourself as you go on. That's why it's good to be able to put yourself in situations that will evoke your higher nature rather than your lower.

You really can't follow a guru. You can't ask somebody to give The Reason, but you can find one for yourself; you decide what the meaning of your life is to be. People talk about the meaning of life; there is no meaning of life--there are lots of meanings of different lives, and you must decide what you want your own to be.

The more he looked inside the more Piglet wasn't there.

And I'd say to myself as I looked so lazily down at the sea: "There's nobody else in the world, and the world was made for me.

Sometimes you have to find the passion. It comes from the inside... Everyone has to find it for themselves.

I definitely had to pave my own path, which wasn't always the easiest thing to do.