1,114 Quotes About Authenticity

When you're socially awkward, you're isolated more than usual, and when you're isolated more than usual, your creativity is less compromised by what has already been said and done. All your hope in life starts to depend on your craft, so you try to perfect it. One reason I stay isolated more than the average person is to keep my creativity as fierce as possible. Being the odd one out may have its temporary disadvantages, but more importantly, it has its permanent advantages.

We could not be fulfilled if we weren't inauthentic some of the time—inauthentic, that is, in relation to such things as our passing desires to throttle our children, poison our spouse, or end our marriage over a dispute about changing a lightbulb.

The words “I am” are powerful. We are declaring who weare to the universe.

Compassion becomes an integral part of our spiritualwork, and we are truly motivated by it to help awaken everyone we come into contact with, in hopes that they cansee the light and love in their hearts, and be inspired todo the same for others. Together we can help spread lesssuffering on the planet, and carry on a goal for universalawakening.

And that’s what authenticity is: it’s a choice to be real.We have that choice every moment of our lives. We canchoose to be real and authentic, or we can choose to beinauthentic and to live a lie.

I begin each day with a clear intentionMay my intention create the best resultsMay others benefit from my intentions

The land of oneness lives in your heart, and has been waiting for you to return to it for a very long time. It was patient, and unconditional in its love for you, and knew that you had many steps to walk, many marathons torun, and a long, difficult voyage on the vast sea of your destiny before you got here, and you did.

My behavior reflects the best of who I amI can make a difference by my behaviorLet my behavior be a light for others

Being in the present with total awareness allows us to observe it so that we can watch its unfolding as if we were watching the sun rise or set. We don’t tell the sun how to do what it knows to do so brilliantly, we simply watch, and we experience what we’re seeing with acceptance