4,826 Quotes About Self

down unlit ,unmarked & forgotten roads of REASON & PURPOSE

Home is neither here nor there. Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.

Awareness is our true self; it’s what we are. So we don’t have to try to develop awareness; we simply need to notice how we block awareness, with our thoughts, our fantasies, our opinions, and our judgments. We’re either in awareness, which is our natural state, or we’re doing something else. The mark of mature students is that most of the time, they don’t do something else. They’re just here, living their life. Nothing special.

We listen for guidance everywhere except from within.

What we desire, more than a season or weather, is the comfortOf being strangers, at least to ourselves.

At the end of this day there remains what remained yesterday and what will remain tomorrow: the insatiable, unquantifiable longing to be both the same and other.

Everything you experience is a blessing and pushes you toward realizing your true self.

Her name had the likeness of a name. She had the likeness of a woman, with hands but no face at all, since she never let herself see it. She had the likeness of a life, because she was all alone in it. She lived in the likeness of a house, with walls and a roof and a door that kept nothing in and nothing out.

You are the decision you make. The things you do. The people you love and who love you. They're the things that really make you who you are.