Self Discovery Quotes - Page 9

• In the process of self-discovery you will learn to be kind when you could be harsh. You will learn to forgive, mostly yourself. You will learn to be patient because you may have to wait quite a while to become that which you will eventually be.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Discovery

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• You need to search your awareness and consider the limitless possibilities of existence in all things and not be so narrow-minded in your self-discovery.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Discovery

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• I am very interested in the enlightenment of women. Very few teachers of advanced self discovery work with women, and if they do it's usually in a very second handed way. They treat women as second class citizens.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhism, Class

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• It is my experience that if a person practices self discovery with intent, they will be successful. Success is an outer sign that they are channeling energy correctly.

  Frederick Lenz

  Successful, Discovery, Self

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• I am Western and I see no need or reason to change that. The Western lifestyle has many things to offer, as do the Eastern methods of self discovery. I think blending the two is very desirable.

  Frederick Lenz

  Thinking, Two, Discovery

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• So great becomes the fear of losing what we have that many of us rush back to hide under the temporary shelter of convention rather than follow the path of self-discovery wherever it might lead. Given adequate time and sufficient fear, we may hide so long that we hardly notice we're slowly suffocating.

  Arianna Huffington

  Discovery, Self, Long

  Arianna Huffington (2006). “On Becoming Fearless...in Love, Work, and Life”, p.30, Hachette UK

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• In Zen, and in other forms of self discovery, we do have a transference that occurs where psychically, information, blocks of attention, are transferred to the student.

  Frederick Lenz

  Block, Discovery, Self

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• Just as our fingerprints are one-of-a-kind, so is our identity. Each of us is a once-only articulation of what humans can be. We are rare, unmatched, mysterious. This is why the quality of openness is so crucial to our self-discovery. We cannot know ourselves by who we think we are, who others take us to be, or what our driver's license may say. We are fields of potential, some now actualized, most not yet.

  David Richo

  Thinking, Discovery, Self

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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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• 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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• Once you've started down that road to self-discovery, no matter how treacherous the path before you, you can't turn back. The universe doesn't allow it.

  Lisa Unger

  Discovery, Self, Matter

  Lisa Unger (2010). “Four Thrillers by Lisa Unger: Beautiful Lies, Sliver of Truth, Black Out, Die for You”, p.332, Crown

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• The journey toward self-discovery is life's greatest adventure.

  Arianna Huffington

  Adventure, Journey, Discovery

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• Most people we observe who practice self-discovery just get caught up in a new description, a new "ism", a new religion, a new god. But nothing changes.

  Frederick Lenz

  Discovery, Self, Practice

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• Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important, but because they also convey universal truths about personal self-discovery and self-transcendence, one's role in society, and the relation between the two.

  Alan Hirsch

  Believe, Hero, Discovery

  Michael Frost, Alan Hirsch (2011). “The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage”, p.106, Baker Books

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• I'm on a constant path of self-discovery and change. I'm trying to become a better person, a nicer person. I love therapy - it's brilliant.

  Julia Sawalha

  Discovery, Self, Trying

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• That's what self-discovery seems to mean to most people. You're going to beat yourself up. You're going to reduce what you're supposed to be and do to a set of rules so you can defy them, or so you can perform them and feel smug.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Mean, Buddhism

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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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• We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Relationship, Inspiring

  "Loving Your Enemies" by Martin Luther King, Jr., Christmas, 1957.

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• Charity is in the heart of man, and righteousness in the path of men. Pity the man who has lost his path and does not follow it and who has lost his heart and does not know how to recover it. When people's dogs and chicks are lost they go out and look for them and yet the people who have lost their hearts do not go out and look for them. The principle of self-cultivation consists in nothing but trying to look for the lost heart.

  Mencius

  Dog, Inspiration, Heart

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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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• 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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• 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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• Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Life, Strength

  Robert Frost (1955). “Selected poems”

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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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• Love looks to the eternal. Love is indeed "ecstasy," not in the sense of a moment of intoxication, but rather as a journey, an on-going exodus out of the closed inward-looking self toward its liberation through self-giving... toward authentic self-discovery and indeed the discovery of God.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Faith, Inspiration, Journey

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