True Self Quotes - Page 6

• Meditation means conscious self-expansion. Meditation means one's conscious awareness of the transcendental Reality. Meditation means the recognition or the discovery of one's own true self. It is through meditation that we transcend limitation, bondage and imperfection.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Mean, Reality, Discovery

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• Here, I think, is another clue to finding true self and vocation: we must withdraw the negative projections we make on people and situations - projections that serve mainly to mask our fears about ourselves- and acknowledge and embrace our own liabilities and limits.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Thinking, Self, People

  Parker J. Palmer (1999). “Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation”, p.29, John Wiley & Sons

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• You can lie to your wife or your boss, but you cannot lie to your typewriter. Sooner or later you must reveal your true self in your pages.

  Leon Uris

  Lying, Typewriters, Self

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• The Beatles defined their own sense of values and honor. They took stances without ever being politically correct. And they did it all with incredible humor... I honestly think that there are certain things in life that help people understand themselves. I think the Beatles are one of those things. They resonate the journey of true selfhood, really.

  Sophie B. Hawkins

  Journey, Thinking, Things In Life

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• Escape the safety of the small by taking the risks to become part of something bigger. Your true self demands it. Listen for the timer on the oven to sound-that's when the memory curtain parts, flashing moments that really mattered.

  Kirby Wright

  Memories, Self, Safety

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• [Cindy Sherman's] photographs reverse the terms of art and autobiography. They use art not to reveal the artist's true self but to show the self as an imaginary construct. There is no real Cindy Sherman in these photographs; there are only the guises she assumes. And she does not create these guises; she simply chooses them in the way that any of us do.

  Douglas Crimp

  Art, Real, Self

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• The heart and mind can find peace and harmony by contemplating the transcendental nature of the true self as supreme effulgent life.

  Patanjali

  Life, Heart, Self

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• Yoga is for internal cleansing, not external exercising. Yoga means true self-knowledge.

  K. Pattabhi Jois

  Yoga, Mean, Exercise

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• Women have the stress of being beautiful, of age and youth. Men don't have all that. And with women, that stress causes a lot of mistakes and bad choices - a lot of not being their true self.

  Miuccia Prada

  Beautiful, Stress, Mistake

  Source: www.gq.com

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• To laugh is to risk appearing a fool, to weep is to risk appearing too sentimental, to reach out for another is to risk involvement, and to expose feelings is to risk exposing one's true self.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Self, Laughing, Feelings

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• I do realize, however, while striving to be your true self to the level I do, there will push back, resistance, and misunderstanding.

  Joanna Lohman

  Self, Levels, Resistance

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• In the dream of approaching forty I saw myself as about to die and realized that I was no longer myself, but a creature inhabited entirely by parasites, as a caterpillar is occupied by the grubs of the ichneumon fly. Gin, whisky, sloth, fear, guilt, tobacco, had made themselves my inquilines; alcohol sloshed about within, while tendrils of melon and vine grew out of ears and nostrils; my mind was a worn gramophone record, my true self was such a ruin as to seem non-existent, and all this had happened in the last three years.

  Cyril Connolly

  Dream, Years, Self

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• We may experience a realization of our true Self the first time we meditate, but most often the process of awakening is gradual.

  Deepak Chopra

  Self, Realization, May

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• Pride is a deeply rooted ailment of the soul. The penalty is misery; the remedy lies in the sincere, life-long cultivation of humility, which means true self-evaluation and a proper perspective toward past, present and future.

  Robert Gordis

  Lying, Mean, Humility

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• Nourishing the soul is the process of drinking at the life stream, coming back to one's true self, embracing the whole of one's experience - good, bad, or ugly; painful or exalted; dull or boring.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Drinking, Self, Soul

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• Sometimes wearing a mask is the best way to show our true selves.

  Lisa Mangum

  Self, Wearing A Mask, Way

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• Discovering vocation does not mean scrambling toward some prize just beyond my reach but accepting the treasure of true self I already posses.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Mean, Self, Treasure

  Parker J. Palmer (1999). “Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation”, p.10, John Wiley & Sons

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• We are not inviting—we are guarded. Most of our energy is spent trying to hide our true selves, and control our worlds to have some sense of security.

  John Eldredge

  Our World, Self, Trying

  John Eldredge, Stasi Eldredge (2011). “Captivating Revised and Updated: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman's Soul”, p.34, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• For me, the soul is connected to a higher being. It's not about religion; it's about connecting to your true self - your truth, the truth inside of you, the one you were born with.

  Donna Karan

  Self, Soul, Born

  Interview with Calvin Klein, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 27, 2009.

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• By the end of your incredibly arduous, disappointing, stressful journey, you will be your true self, in a place where you belong, with friends who truly understand you and bring all sorts of opportunities your way.

  Martha Beck

  Friends, Opportunity, Journey

  Martha Beck (2008). “Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live”, p.338, Harmony

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• The church is her true self only when she exists for humanity.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Self, Humanity

  "Letters and Papers from Prison".

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• Do whatever work feeds your true self, even if it’s not a safe bet, even if it’s like a crazy risk, even if everyone in your life tells you you’re wrong or bad or crazy.

  Martha Beck

  Crazy, Self, Risk

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• I still haven't found the place where I can be my true self. But maybe you never get to be your true self, either.

  Karen Joy Fowler

  Self, Found, Stills

  Karen Joy Fowler (2013). “We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves: A Novel”, p.189, Penguin

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• Your life is not little, and your playing small doesn’t serve
  the world. Your living large, on the other hand-your being
  your true self despite fear, fatigue, doubt, and opposition-
  will serve the world more than you can imagine. In fact, it
  may help save it. And saving the world, after all, is
  what all heroes (including you) are here to do.

  Martha Beck

  Hero, Self, Hands

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• I invite you, wholeheartedly, to read books that remind you of your highest self and emancipate you from mental slavery or false beliefs and illusions. The more you invest in attracting books that resonate with the frequency of your true self, the more light you will bring to the world.

  Carlos Santana

  Book, Light, Self

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