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• False self is an identity based on what you have, what you do, and what others think about you. In stark contrast to this is the true self in Christ, which is who we are before God and in God - Christ living in us, as Paul put it to the churches in Galatia

  Basil Pennington

  Christian, Thinking, Self

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• Now before going to a party, I just tell myself to listen with affection to anyone who talks to me... to try to know them without my mind pressing against theirs, or arguing or changing the subject. No. My attitude is: "Tell me more. This person is showing me his soul. It is a little dry and meager and full of grinding talk just now, but presently he will begin to think, not just automatically to talk. He will show his true self. Then he will be wonderfully alive."

  Brenda Ueland

  Attitude, Party, Thinking

  Brenda Ueland (1993). “Strength to Your Sword Arm: Selected Writings”, Holy Cow Press

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• Come into the mountains, dear friend Leave society and take no one with you But your true self Get close to nature Your everyday games will be insignificant Notice the clouds spontaneously forming patterns And try to do that with your life.

  Susan Polis Schutz

  Life, Nature, Clouds

  Susan Polis Schutz (1972). “Come Into the Mountains, Dear Friend”, Blue Mountain Press

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• Listening is much more than allowing another to talk while waiting for a chance to respond. Listening is paying full attention to others and welcoming them into our very beings. The beauty of listening is that those who are listened to start feeling accepted, start taking our words more seriously and discovering their true selves.

  Henri Nouwen

  Self, Waiting, Feelings

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• Self knowledge begins with the neighbor, the mirror, and just the same with true self-love; that goes from the mirror to the matter.

  Johann Georg Hamann

  Mirrors, Self, Matter

  "Briefwechsel ('Correspondence')". Book edited by Arthur Henkel, Volume 6, p. 281, 1955 - 1975.

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• Within alpinism's narrow framework we seek transcendence and relentlessly pursue what remains hidden from us on flat ground: our true selves.

  Steve House

  Self, Transcendence, Framework

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• True self-discovery begins where your comfort zone ends.

  Adam Braun

  Discovery, Self, Comfort

  Adam Braun (2015). “The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• When we love God because we feel we should love Him, instead of genuinely loving out of our true selves, we have forgotten who God really is.

  Francis Chan

  Self, Forgotten, God Love

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.19, David C Cook

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• Suppose Mozart had tried to be original? It would have been like a man at the North Pole trying to walk north, and this is true of all of the rest of us. Striving after originality takes you far away from your true self, and makes your work mediocre.

  Keith Johnstone

  Men, Self, Trying

  Keith Johnstone (2012). “Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre”, p.88, Routledge

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• While you had the chance to live, did you become your true self?

  Michael Meade

  Self, Chance

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• Every experience of love, bliss, belonging, inspiration, and insight provides a stepping stone back to your true self.

  Deepak Chopra

  Inspiration, Self, Stones

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• When the mind opens by speaking denials, this true Self that philosophers have so long striven to free shows itself all glorious with wisdom, strength, and holiness...Denial of evil is a word of Truth.

  Myrtle Fillmore

  Self, Long, Evil

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• Your true self is a treasure of all divine virtues.

  Ma Jaya

  Self, Treasure, Virtue

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• In writing practice, there's no direction. You enter your own mind and follow it where it takes you. We have a great need to connect with our own mind and our own true self. And all of us have a story to tell.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Healing, Writing, Self

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• The people around you are mirrors, I think.
  You see yourself reflected in their eyes. If the mirror is true, and smooth, you see your true self. That’s how you learn who you are.

  Caitlin Moran

  Eye, Thinking, Mirrors

  Caitlin Moran (2011). “How To Be a Woman”, p.157, Random House

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• Genetics do play a role in how you consciously or subconsciously manifest your true self.

  Ben Harper

  Self, Play, Roles

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• Happiness is your real nature. You identify with yourself with the body and mind, feel it's limitations, and suffer. Realize your true self in order to open the store of happiness. That true self is the reality, the Supreme Truth, which is the self of all the world you now see, the self of all the selves, the One real, the Supreme, the Eternal self - as distinct from the ego or the bodily idea for the self.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Real, Self, Order

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• Selfishness is the biggest form of helplessness as it makes the person blind so much that he fails to search his true self for being always in the lurch.

  Anuj

  Self, Failing, Blind

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• Always with me was the inner twin: my true nature, my true self. It is timeless, free, compassionate and in love with whatever is natural to me

  Alice Walker

  Self, Twins, Natural

  Alice Walker (1997). “The Same River Twice”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• Each time we see and are touched by the expression of some eternal principle, we catch a sweet glimpse of some aspect of our True Self.

  Guy Finley

  Wisdom, Sweet, Self

  FaceBook post by Guy Finley from Feb 21, 2014

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• I've never... when I was having songs on the airwaves, and that sort of thing, I never felt a sense of pressure anywhere except from myself, to do things the way I wanted to do them; to feel authentic; to feel like I was presenting my true self to the world.

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Song, Self, World

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• Find your true self. The old question, asked in many ages, "Who am I?" Once you figure out who am I, and you know who am I, then you have that knowledge of self.

  RZA

  Self, Age, Figures

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I had so many secrets and so much social repression throughout my life. I guess I'm just a shy person and feel like my true self is unacceptable to most people.

  Ezra Furman

  Self, People, Secret

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There is only one problem on which all my existence, my peace, my happiness depend: to discover myself in discovering God. If I find Him I will find myself and if I find my true self I will find Him.

  Thomas Merton

  Self, Problem, Existence

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.36, New Directions Publishing

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• True self-esteem is realizing that you are valuable because you were born. No matter where you came from, what color your skin is, what people say about your family or what mean things people may have done to you, because you were born, you are important and you matter.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Self Esteem, Mean, Color

  "Shaun Robinson Opens Up About Book ‘Exactly As I Am’". Interview with Jenny Schafer, celebritybabyscoop.com. February 10, 2010.

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