Quotes about Self-discovery

Your job is to allow the Holy Spirit to remove the fearful thinking that surrounds your perfect self, just as excess marble surrounded Michelangelo's perfect statue.

Eastern religions tell us that if we go for God, all that is not authentically ourselves will drop.

and seeing that face, touching it and loving it in ourselves and others, is the experience of God. It is our divine humanness. It is the high we all seek.

Dear God, Please free me from false appetites and take away my pain. Take from me my addicted self, and show me who I am. Unchain my heart so I might live a freer life at last. Amen

You've learned something about yourself from all of this: you do not function well outside the circle of God's love.

It is not your job to seek for love, it is your job to seek within yourself all the barriers who hold against its coming.

One of the ideas we must agree on and continue to forge with individual and collective vigor is that a woman's life goes uphill at forty.

Wherever you've been, and whatever you've done so far, your entire life was building up to this moment. Now is the time to burst forth into your greatness—a greatness you could never have achieved without going through exactly the things you've gone through.

Until we heal the child we used to be, the adult we want to becdoesn't stand a chance.

Whatever problems I face today, I will look for answers inside myself. I will search my heart for any lack of love . . . lack of forgiveness . . . lack of acceptance of my brother or myself. I will be lifted then to an illumined place, where wisdom and truth shall guide me. There I will find the answers that I seek.

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

There's only one story, the story of your life.