Self Discovery Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• 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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• For us to go to Italy and to penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery

  D. H. Lawrence

  Discovery, Self, Penetrate

  D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Sea and Sardinia”, p.22, Cambridge University Press

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• Unfortunately, in self-discovery, you get the culty types who want the father figure or mother figure to tell them everything to do. They don't want to do any work. They want to hang on your energy and try to drain it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mother, Father, Buddhism

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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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• To be nobody-but-yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

  e. e. cummings

  Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation

  "A Miscellany (A Poet's Advice to Students)". Book by E. E. Cummings edited by George James Firmage, 1958.

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• Honor your seeing...digest your seeing...otherw ise it becomes just another thing you file away in the mind's department of philosophy...yo u're here for much more than knowledge...you are here for Self-discovery.

  Mooji

  Philosophy, Discovery, Self

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• In our world, in our pre-World War III condition, meditation is considered a cult activity and people who practice self-discovery are actually persecuted and ridiculed.

  Frederick Lenz

  War, Buddhism, Our World

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• Don't become a spiritual bigot. Don't feel that just because you meditate and you are striving for enlightenment that you are in any way superior to any other person. Be even. Be easy. You will last longer on the pathway to self-discovery.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Buddhism, Discovery

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• Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.

  Jasper Fforde

  Art, Writing, Discovery

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• High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society.

  Carl Hart

  Journey, Discovery, Self

  "High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society". Book by Carl Hart, June 11, 2013.

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• We get closer to God as we get more intimately and understandingly acquainted with the things He has created. I know of nothing more inspiring than that of making discoveries for one's self.

  George Washington Carver

  Discovery, Self, Knows

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• Love is the only rule in self-discovery. If you've forgotten that rule, you've forgotten everything. It's not what you can get; it's what you can give.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Buddhism, Love Is

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• I went to a motivational training course once, a course of self-discovery, and I found out after a week that my fear - it was not a fear of not being accepted - was a very violent fear of failure.

  Emanuel Steward

  Discovery, Self, Training

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• You are not creating a new you; you are releasing a hidden you. The process is one of self discovery. The hidden you that wants to emerge is in perfect balance.

  Deepak Chopra

  Discovery, Self, Creating

  Deepak Chopra (2001). “Perfect health: the complete mind body guide”, Harmony

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• Take the level of dedication that anyone had to get to the top in any field, and apply it to self-discovery. Except that when you get to the top of anything else, it washes away. You will die. The only thing that stays with you forever is your awareness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Dedication

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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 like Miracles. They inspire me. Miracles are the fun of enlightenment. When a teacher does a miracle, and everyone sees it, they have faith in what the teacher has to say about self-discovery.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Fun, Buddhism

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• I don't dictate particular styles of dress. I do teach classes in self discovery.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Discovery, Self

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• I try to teach people to continually search and question the meaning of everything they are taught and everything they believe in. My job is not so much to impart a philosophy but to train people in the methods of self-discovery.

  Frederick Lenz

  Jobs, Philosophy, Believe

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• A lot of people who are involved in self-discovery lose energy to abusive teachers, to abusive friends and to entities, non-physical beings.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Discovery, Self

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• Tantra means the avoidance of a set or defined form of spirituality. Tantra is intuitive self-discovery.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Mean, Discovery

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• There are two sides to self-discovery, as in most things, an outer more popular side and an inner side. The popular side presents more of a simplified form.

  Frederick Lenz

  Discovery, Self, Two Sides

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• A Zen master is someone whose life is one with enlightenment and self-discovery. They can never be separated from that. They've been essentially mastered by Zen.

  Frederick Lenz

  Discovery, Self, Enlightenment

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• What's important is to be supportive of all who practice. Anyone on any level, even if they don't call it self-discovery, who is seeking to awaken to their own potentials and possibilities, to the inner freedom, deserves your respect and support.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Discovery

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