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• Menders of all times and places have taught that silencing the thoughts in our heads and opening to the experience of the body and emotions is the basis of all healing. It's the only means by which we can reclaim our true nature or feel the subtle cues telling us how to find our way through life.

  Martha Beck

  Mean, Healing, Body

  Martha Beck (2011). “Finding Your Way in a Wild New World: Reclaim Your True Nature to Create the Life You Want”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• The true nature of the gods is that of magical images shaped out of the astral plane by mankind's thought, and influenced by the mind.

  Dion Fortune

  Mind, Planes, Mankind

  "The Mystical Qabalah". Book by Dion Fortune, 1935.

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• Creativity is our true nature; blocks are an unnatural thwarting of a process at once as normal and as miraculous as the blossoming of a flower at the end of a slender green stem.

  Julia Cameron

  Block, Flower, Creativity

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.10, Souvenir Press

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• The name, his true name, was weaker and more flawed than he would have liked, and he hated himself for that, but there was also much to admire within it, and the more he thought about it, the more he was able to accept the true nature of his self. He was not the best person in the world, but neither was he the worst.

  Christopher Paolini

  Self, Names, World

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.2961, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired. Only after death, only in solitude, does a man’s true nature emerge. In death, as on the chimney sweep’s Saturday night, the soot gets washed from his body.

  Franz Kafka

  Night, Men, Solitude

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• What is necessary is not to seek after some fantastic ideal, utterly unsuited to our real needs, but to discover the true nature of those needs, to fulfill them, and rejoice therein.

  Aleister Crowley

  Real, Needs, Fantastic

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• Anybody's true nature is bullshit. There is no human soul. Emotion is bullshit. Love is bullshit.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Love Is, Bullshit, Soul

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• It was as if someone had taken a tiny bead of pure life and decking it as lightly as possible with down and feathers, had set it dancing and zigzagging to show us the true nature of life.

  Virginia Woolf

  Taken, Dancing, Down And

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2897, Delphi Classics

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• Isn't it great when you're a kid and the world is full of anonymous things? Everything is bright and mysterious until you know what it is called and then all the light goes out of it...Once we knew the name of it, how could we ever come to love it?...For things had true natures, and they hid behind false names, beneath the skin we gave them.

  Colson Whitehead

  Kids, Light, Names

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• For all these years I kept my mouth closed so selfish desires would not fall out. And because I remained quiet for so long now my daughter does not hear me... All these years I kept my true nature hidden, running along like a small shadow so nobody could catch me. And because I moved so secretly now my daughter does not see me... We are lost, she and I, unseen and not seeing; unheard and not hearing, unknown by others.

  Amy Tan

  Running, Daughter, Selfish

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• Being is not only beyond but also deep within every form as its innermost invisible and indestructible essence. This means that it is accessible to you now as your own deepest self, your true nature.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Mean, Self, Essence

  Eckhart Tolle (2001). “Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now”, p.16, New World Library

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• All these years I kept my true nature hidden, running along like a small shadow so nobody could catch me. -Ying Ying

  Amy Tan

  Running, Years, Shadow

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• Because the relationship between self and world is reciprocal, it is not a matter of first getting enlightened or saved and then acting. As we work to heal the Earth, the Earth heals us. No need to wait. As we care enough to take risks, we loosen the grip of ego and begin to come home to our true nature.

  Joanna Macy

  Peace, Home, Self

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• Realisation is our nature. It is nothing new to be gained. What is new cannot be eternal. Therefore there is no need for doubting if one would lose or gain the Self.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Yoga, Self, Doubt

  "Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi".

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• ...love is our true nature. When we do not express love in our words and actions it is like honey hidden in a rock.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Yoga, Love Is, Rocks

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• Jnana is given neither from outside nor from another person. It can be realised by each and everyone in his own Heart. The jnana Guru of everyone is only the Supreme Self that is always revealing its own truth in every Heart through the being-conciousness 'I am, I am.' The granting of true knowledge by him is initiation into jnana. The grace of the Guru is only that Self-awareness that is one's own true nature. It is the inner conciousness by which he is unceasingly revealing his existence. This divine upadesa is always going on naturally in everyone.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Heart, Self, Grace

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• Zazen practice is the direct expression of our true nature. Strictly speaking, for a human being, there is no other practice than this practice; there is no other way of life than this way of life.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Expression, Practice, Growth

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.32, Shambhala Publications

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• Golf requires only a few simple Rules and Regulations to guide the players in the true nature of its sporting appeal. The spirit of the game is its own referee.

  Robert Harris

  Golf, Simple, Player

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• Happiness is your True Nature.
  Within you is Unimaginable Beauty.
  Your True Self is Bright and Shining this Moment.
  Through the clear Realization of the Truth,
  your Real Self will come shining through.

  Robert Adams

  Real, Self, Shining

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• When you look upon another human being and feel great love toward them, or when you contemplate beauty in nature and something within you responds deeply to it, close your eyes for a moment and feel the essence of that love or that beauty within you, inseparable from who you are, your true nature. The outer form is a temporary reflection of what you are within, in your essence. That is why love and beauty can never leave you, although all outer forms will.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Love, Spiritual, Eye

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• We are completely unaware of our true nature because we identify ourselves with our body, our emotions and our thoughts, thus losing sight of our unchanging centre, which is pure consciousness. When we return to our true nature, our thoughts and perceptions no longer appear as modifications of a single substance, they come into being and subside like waves of the ocean.

  Jean Klein

  Spiritual, Ocean, Sight

  Jean Klein (2015). “Be Who You Are”, p.16, New Harbinger Publications

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• Those who understand the true nature of humanity are always loners.

  Dean Cavanagh

  Humanity, Loner

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• One of the big misapprehensions about mathematics that we perpetrate in our classrooms is that the teacher always seems to know the answer to any problem that is discussed. This gives students the idea that there is a book somewhere with all the right answers to all of the interesting questions, and that teachers know those answers. And if one could get hold of the book, one would have everything settled. That's so unlike the true nature of mathematics.

  Leon Henkin

  Teacher, Book, Math

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• If a man lived long enough, his past would always overtake him, no matter how fast he ran or how morally he tried to live subsequently. And how men dealt with that law ultimately revealed their true natures.

  Greg Iles

  Past, Men, Law

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• Realize your true nature. That is all there is to do. Know yourself as you are - infinite Spirit. That is practical religion. Everything else is impractical, for everything else will perish.

  Swami Vivekananda

  God, Spiritual, Soul

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