Know Yourself Quotes - Page 7

• There is nothing to do, just be. Do nothing. Be. No climbing mountains and sitting in caves. I do not even say "be yourself" since you do not know yourself. Just be.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Climbing

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• Once you know yourself as a genuine seeker, and when your own inner chamber is quite enlightened, then comes the natural unfoldment of pure love and compassion and a genuine desire to serve others.

  Rod Stryker

  Love, Compassion, Frustrated

  "'Tantra Unveiled – An Interview with Pandit Rajmani Tigunait'". Interview with Rod Stryker, www.parayoga.com. September 25, 2000.

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• So, how do you get back to heaven?
  To begin with, just notice the thoughts that take you away from it.
  You don't have to believe everything your thoughts tell you.
  Just become familiar with the particular thoughts you use
  to deprive yourself of happiness.
  It may seem strange at first to get to know yourself in this way,
  but becoming familiar with your stressful thoughts
  will show you the way home to everything you need.

  Byron Katie

  Happiness, Believe, Home

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• To truly know the world, look deeply within your own being; to truly know yourself, take real interest in the world.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Real, Looks, World

  "Verses and Meditations". Book by Rudolf Steiner, 1985.

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• The journey of consciousness, of mysticism, is to come to know yourself and your own motivations.

  Caroline Myss

  Motivation, Journey, Consciousness

  Twitter post from Oct 02, 2013

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• Be still and know yourself as the Truth you have been searching for. Be still and let the inherent joy of that Truth capture your drama and destroy it in the bliss of consummation. Be still and let your life be lived by the purpose you were made for. Be still and receive the inherent truth of your heart.

  Gangaji

  Drama, Heart, Practice

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• Knowledge gives power. In practice it is very simple. To control yourself, know yourself.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Simple, Practice, Giving

  "I am That". Book by Nisargadatta Maharaj, p.121, 2005.

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• That is the first thing to learn - not to seek. When you seek you are really only window-shopping. The question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality, or whatever you like to call it, can never be answered by books, by priests, philosophers or saviours. Nobody and nothing can answer the question but you yourself and that is why you must know yourself. Immaturity lies only in total ignorance of self. To understand yourself is the beginning of wisdom.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Lying, Book, Ignorance

  "Freedom From The Known". Book by Jiddu Krishnamurti, 1969.

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• If knowing yourself and being yourself were as easy to do as to talk about, there wouldn't be nearly so many people walking around in borrowed postures, spouting secondhand ideas, trying desperately to fit in rather than to stand out.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Being Yourself, Ideas, Knowing

  Warren G. Bennis, Patricia Ward Biederman (2009). “The Essential Bennis”, p.212, John Wiley & Sons

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• Ecstasy carries you completely outside your ego boundaries. In ecstasy you know yourself as cosmic ego, unbounded in time and space.

  Deepak Chopra

  Motivational, Spiritual, Space

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• The way you get to know yourself is by the expressions on other people's faces, because that's the only thing that you can see, unless you carry a mirror about.

  Gil Scott-Heron

  Mirrors, Expression, People

  "New York Is Killing Me: The unlikely survival of Gil Scott-Heron" by Alec Wilkinson, www.newyorker.com. August 09, 2010.

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• To the extent to which you know yourself, and we are all more alike than different, you can know others. When you love yourself, you will love others. And to the depth and extent to which you can love yourself, only to that depth and extent will you be able to love others.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Love You, Depth, Different

  Leo F. Buscaglia (1972). “Love”, Fawcett

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• We're constantly being told what other people think we are, and that's why it is so important to know yourself.

  Sarah McLachlan

  Thinking, People, Important

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In God you come up against something which is in every respect immeasurably superior to yourself. Unless you know God as that-and, therefore, know yourself as nothing in comparison-you do not know God at all.

  C. S. Lewis

  Religion, Christianity, Come Up

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.109, HarperCollins UK

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• Don't attach yourself to anyone who shows you the least bit of attention because you're lonely. Lonliness is the human condition. No one is ever going to fill that space. The best thing you can do it know yourself... know what you want.

  Janet Fitch

  Lonely, Space, Attention

  "White Oleander". www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• You know yourself what you are worth in your own eyes; and at what price you will sell yourself. For men sell themselves at various prices. This is why, when Florus was deliberating whether he should appear at Nero's shows, taking part in the performance himself, Agrippinus replied, 'Appear by all means.' And when Florus inquired, 'But why do not you appear?' he answered, 'Because I do not even consider the question.'

  Epictetus

  Mean, Eye, Men

  "The Philosophy of Epictetus: Golden Sayings and Fragments".

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• Knowing yourself is to be rooted in Being, instead of lost in your mind.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Knowing, Mind

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.119, Penguin

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• If you reveal everything, bare every feeling, ask for understanding, you lose something crucial to your sense of yourself. You need to know things that others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself.

  Don DeLillo

  Understanding, Feelings, Needs

  Don DeLillo (2010). “Point Omega”, p.51, Pan Macmillan

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• I wondered how long it took for a baby to become yours, for familiarity to set in. Maybe as long as it took a new car to lose that scent, or a brand-new house to gather dust. Maybe that was the process more commonly described as bonding: the act of learning your child as well as you know yourself.

  Jodi Picoult

  Baby, Children, Parenting

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.258, Simon and Schuster

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• When you know yourself that you've come through preparation injury free and you've done everything, you've done the work in the gym and the rounds of sparring, it fills you with confidence.

  Joe Calzaghe

  Motivation, Preparation, Done

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• Love has nothing to do with another person. Love is Truth. Love is Beauty. Love is Self. To know yourself, to surrender to the truth of yourself, is to surrender to love.

  Gangaji

  Love Is, Self, Surrender

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• You would be amazed at who people are once you know yourself.

  Byron Katie

  People, Would Be, Amazed

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• I don't trust anyone who hasn't been self-destructiv e in some way, and who hasn't gone through some sort of bout of self-loathing. You've got to bang yourself around a bit to know yourself.

  Johnny Depp

  Self, Loathing, Bangs

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• In breaking away from the familiar and the expected, you'll be forced and privileged to face greater challenges, learn harder lessons, and really get to know yourself.

  Kelly Cutrone

  Life, Challenges, Faces

  Kelly Cutrone, Meredith Bryan (2010). “If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• There is nothing to practice. To know yourself, be yourself. To be yourself, stop imagining yourself to be this or that. Just be. Let your true nature emerge. Don't disturb your mind with seeking.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Being Yourself, Business, Practice

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