Self Discovery Quotes - Page 7

• The anti-pleasure movement in self-discovery is very strong. I have big news for them, if they ever get to enlightenment, which is unlikely the way they're approaching it, they're going to find that enlightenment is very pleasurable.

  Frederick Lenz

  Strong, Buddhism, Discovery

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• Once you are present in the Energyfield of Self-discovery, it's like you are a piece of ice in warm water. The warm water is the Self. The ice is the mind. The warm water is not fighting with the ice. The ice can not resist the melting. It is a natural and fatal attraction.

  Mooji

  Fighting, Discovery, Self

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• Women have been denied access to advanced methods of self discovery throughout the ages.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Discovery, Self

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• Most teachers of self-discovery have two types of students. They have students they deal with in a more exoteric way than the esoteric students. Esoteric truths are presented to usually a smaller group of students.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Discovery, Self

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• Souls have different journeys. The best thing to know is, not what everybody else does, but what you do. Self-discovery essentially is finding your own dharma, your own rhythm.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Journey, Discovery

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• Self-discovery is realistic. It's not built on ideas and philosophies. It's what works. Philosophies are nice if you like philosophies. But self-discovery is predicated on something that really brings you into enlightened states of mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Philosophy, Nice

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• Self-discovery in songwriting, bringing something forth that's instructive to yourself - some of the best songs that you will ever write are the ones where you didn't have to think about any of that stuff, but nonetheless that's what's happening in the song.

  Jackson Browne

  Music, Song, Writing

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• We will never know our full potential unless we push ourselves to find it. It's this self discovery that inevitably takes us to the wildest places on earth.

  Travis Rice

  Discovery, Self, Earth

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• In my mind, the purpose of education is to enable human beings to develop to their full potential, intellectually and spiritually. That means that students have to be empowered to pursue self-knowledge and the skills that will help them be of service to their fellow human beings. Education should encourage people to develop their curiosity about life; above all, it should not trivialize either the students or their lives.

  Michael N. Nagler

  God, Knowledge, Mean

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• A soulmate is the one person whose love is powerful enough to motivate you to meet your soul, to do the emotional work of self-discovery, of awakening.

  Kenny Loggins

  Wedding, Soulmate, Powerful

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• We are not more ingenious in searching out bad motives for good actions when performed by others, than good motives for bad actions when performed by ourselves.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Discovery, Atheism, Action

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.292

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• Take a yoga class, study different forms of self-discovery. Some people are crazy and fanatical, avoid them. People who are balanced and calm and introspective, associating with them will raise your energy level.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Crazy, Yoga

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• You've got to make a person aware of how miserable they really are and show them how happy they can be. Otherwise, why should they seek this nebulous goal called self-discovery.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Discovery

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• What you need to learn are basic types of concentration, bringing more energy into your life, plugging up the holes where you lose energy, the basics of self-discovery.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Discovery

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• If you are trying to aid people in the process of self-discovery, what you have to do is confound them with so many concepts that are contradictory, yet each make complete sense in its own right.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Discovery

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• The more one forgives himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Giving, Causes, Self Actualization

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• We don't always know what makes us happy. We know, instead, what we think SHOULD. We are baffled and confused when our attempts at happiness fail...We are mute when it comes to naming accurately our own preferences, delights, gifts, talents. The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people's expectations. The tongue of the original self is the language of the heart.

  Julia Cameron

  Happiness, Wisdom, Confused

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• A war is an incarnation. A battle is a day of your life. So we do one day at a time in self-discovery.

  Frederick Lenz

  War, Discovery, Self

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• To be ourselves causes us to be exiled by many others, and yet to comply with what others want causes us to be exiled from ourselves.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Want, Causes

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• If you wish to advance into the infinite, explore the finite in all directions.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wish, Infinite, Exploration

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1964). “Goethe : [selected Verse]”

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• There is no such thing as living alone, for all living is relationship; but to live without direct relationship demands high intelligence, a swifter and greater awareness for self-discovery.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Discovery, Self, Solitude

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• Nothing you can do can prevent your death. Nothing you can do can prevent your rebirth. To step beyond life and death is self-discovery.

  Frederick Lenz

  Discovery, Self, Life And Death

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• The few women who have been admitted to the study are usually given a second-class status in which they are taught only the basics of self-discovery.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Class, Discovery

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• Marriage is not a static state between two unchanging people. Marriage is a psychological and spiritual journey that begins in the ecstasy of attraction, meanders through a rocky stretch of self-discovery, and culminates in the creation of an intimate, joyful, lifelong union.

  Harville Hendrix

  Marriage, Spiritual, Journey

  Harville Hendrix, Ph.D. (2007). “Getting the Love You Want, 20th Anniversary Edition: A Guide for Couples”, p.42, Macmillan

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• Human happiness, true prosperity and joyful living can only emerge from a life of elegant simplicity, embedded in the arts and crafts.

  Satish Kumar

  Art, Simplicity, Crafts

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