Self Discovery Quotes

“In the silence between your heartbeat bides a summons. Do you hear it? Name it if you must, or leave it forever nameless, but why pretend it is not there?”

“Late, by myself, in the boat of myself, no light and no land anywhere, cloudcover thick. I try to stay just above the surface, yet I'm already under and living within the ocean.”

“The source is within you. And this whole world is springing up from it.”

“Listen. Make a way for yourself inside yourself. Stop looking in the other way of looking.”

“Your mind, this globe of awareness, is a starry universe. When you push off with your foot, a thousand new roads become clear.”

“I lost everything i have, found myself.”

“Inside you there's an artist you don't know about.”

“I was youand never knew it.”

“Stop searching here and there, the jewels are inside YOU.”

“Doing as others told me, I was Blind. Coming when others called me, I was Lost. Then I left everyone, myself as well. Then I found Everyone, Myself as well.”

“In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.”

“Every individual man has a bias which he must obey, and...it is only as he feels and obeys this that he rightly develops and attains his legitimate power in the world. It is his magnetic needle, which points always in one direction to his proper path.... He is never happy nor strong until he finds it, keeps it.”

“Whatever purifies you is the right path, I will not try to define it.”

“Inside any deep asking is the answering.”

“Authentic freedom is actually the freedom of knowing who you are, why you are here, your purpose in life and where you are going when you leave here.”

“There's a part of you that you can get a hold of, and there's a part of you that you can never get a hold of, and those are opposite things. Who are you? Which one are you? You are combinations of opposites.”

“Discarding doubt is a decision to reconnect to your original self.”

“For all our penny-wisdom, for all our soul-destroying slavery to habit, it is not to be doubted that all men have sublime thoughts; that all men value the few real hours of life; they love to be heard; they love to be caught up into the vision of principles. We mark with light in the memory the few interviews we have had, in the dreary years of routine and of sin, with souls that made our souls wiser; that spoke what we thought; that told us what we knew; that gave us leave to be what we only were.”

“I am not much an advocate for traveling, and I observe that men run away to other countries because they are not good in their own, and run back to their own because they pass for nothing in the new places. For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?”

“Love is a mirror. In it you see nothing except your reflection. You see nothing except your real face.”

“Always search for your innermost nature in those you are with, as rose oil imbibes from roses.”

“Let Go of Your Worries Let go of your worries and be completely clear-hearted, like the face of a mirror that contains no images. If you want a clear mirror, behold yourself and see the shameless truth, which the mirror reflects. If metal can be polished to a mirror-like finish, what polishing might the mirror of the heart require? Between the mirror and the heart is this single difference: the heart conceals secrets, while the mirror does not.”

“Let the waters settle and you will see the moon and the stars mirrored in your own being.”

“From the Distance You only See My Light; Come closer and You will Know that I Am You.”

“A little while alone in your roomwill prove more valuable than anything elsethat could ever be given you.”