Self Discovery Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• Adversity is an opportunity for self-discovery.

  John C. Maxwell

  Adversity, Opportunity, Discovery

  John C. Maxwell (2015). “How Successful People Win: Turn Every Setback into a Step Forward”, p.52, Hachette UK

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• Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.

  Andre Breton

  Fate, Finding Yourself, Trying

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• I think happiness comes from self-acceptance. We all try different things, and we find some comfortable sense of who we are. We look at our parents and learn and grow and move on. We change.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Happiness, Moving, Acceptance

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• Writing a novel is an act of self-annihilation as much as self-discovery. You can kill whole appetites and flood whole depths while plumbing them, but if you are serious about it you also get to put something into the world that wasn't quite there before.

  Andrew O'Hagan

  Writing, Discovery, Self

  "In truth" by Andrew O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2007.

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• People who are involved in self-discovery lead different types of lives. The lives they lead are not necessarily the lives of renunciation. Rather, it is a structuring of the elements in your life in a particular way.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Success, Buddhism

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• I also believe that when people are going through difficult situations in life... it causes them to search a lot more. They search life and search their soul. When you’re searching, you’re suddenly a lot more open to the world around you, to the possibilities, to things you never thought about before. — When you’re happy, you don’t question the world so much. When you’re lost, you question everything. The very reason why it is so essential to human self-discovery

  Cecelia Ahern

  Believe, Situations In Life, Discovery

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• People come to a teacher to learn self-discovery. A teacher who just wants to keep you on a string forever, the god-guru concept, a teacher like that is very abusive. Those people are actually usually taking their students energy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Discovery, Self

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• If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.

  Aldous Huxley

  Knowledge, Emotional, Discovery

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• Self-observation brings man to the realization of the necessity of self-change. And in observing himself a man notices that self-observation itself brings about certain changes in his inner processes. He begins to understand that self-observation is an instrument of self-change, a means of awakening.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Spiritual, Mean, Men

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• It's too easy only to blame the militarists, racists, sexists and other pushers of violence for the mess we're in. What is harder is self-examination, moving beyond caring by looking inward to ask the personal question: What more should I be doing everyday to bring about a peace and justice based world, whether across the ocean or across the living room?

  Colman McCarthy

  Moving, Ocean, Caring

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• We may go to the moon, but that' s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide

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• Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realize the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good; do good. Be kind; be compassionate. Inquire, know Thyself.

  Sivananda

  Kindness, Heart, Life Is Short

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• Explore your mind, discover yourself, then give the best that is in you to your age and to your world. There are heroic possibilities waiting to be discovered in every person

  Wilferd Peterson

  Hero, Giving, Waiting

  Wilferd Arlan Peterson, Xizhen Wu (1978). “當代的生活藝術”

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• You can live a lifetime and at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

  Beryl Markham

  Knowledge, People, Lifetime

  Beryl Markham (1994). “The Illustrated West with the Night”, Stewart, Tabori, & Chang

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• Come to the Root of the Root of your Self

  Rumi

  Self, Roots

  Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2016). “Love is a Stranger”, p.17, Shambhala Publications

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• The Universe is circles within circles, and everything is one circle, and all the circles are connected to each other. Each family is a circle, and those family circles connect together and make a community, and the community makes its circle where it lives on the Earth. It (the community) cares for that part (of the Earth) but cares for it as a circle - which is to say in a cooperative and egalitarian way, where everybody is cared for, and everybody is respected.

  Black Elk

  Circles, Community, Together

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• All I know is when I start getting serious about songwriting... it's like a playground. All responsibilities slip away and you're with your essence. There can be delight there and self-discovery. You can dance there... I think of it as my serious playground.

  Laura Nyro

  Writing, Responsibility, Thinking

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• For me, it's a voyage of self-discovery. I'm able to go on a set and to explore situations, personalities, people and characters that are close to me, or maybe not. Through going there and experiencing these different people and their situations, it helps me to get oriented and develop as a human being. So, acting is fundamental to who I am.

  Robert Carlyle

  Character, Discovery, Self

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• It matters, it matters very much, what each of us chooses to do. The journey toward self-discovery and self-knowledge is not only life's highest adventure, but also the only way to transform society from one based on self-centeredness and compulsory compassion to one based on service and mutual responsibility.

  Arianna Huffington

  Adventure, Responsibility, Journey

  Arianna Huffington (2003). “Fourth Instinct: The Call of the Soul”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• Ya know it's funny, what's happening to us. Our lives have become digital. Our friends, now virtual. And, anything you could ever wanna know is just a click away. Experiencing the world through second hand information isn't enough. If we want authenticity we have to initiate it. 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

  Funny, Life, Motivational

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• If we want authenticity, we have to initiate it.  Self-discovery takes us to the wildest places on earth

  Travis Rice

  Discovery, Self, Earth

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• Self-observation is the first step of inner unfolding.

  Amit Ray

  Inspiration, Self, Meditation Practice

  Amit Ray (2010). “Meditation: Insights and Inspiration”, p.64, INNER LIGHT PUBLISHERS

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• Any human being who is becoming independent of conditionings, of religions, scriptures, prophets and messiahs, has arrived home. He has found the treasure which was hidden in his own being.

  Rajneesh

  Independent, Home, Treasure

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• Truths cannot be acquired from words out of other people's mouths. Before Truths can be internalized, they must come from one's own realizations and practices. Through a lifetime of personal practice, human beings are capable of revealing all of the secrets of the cosmic essence. You are your own best judge.

  Gautama Buddha

  Essence, Practice, People

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