Man can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can starve from a lack of bread.
-Richard Wright
"Native Son"
Quotations
Self - Discovery
People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.
-Thomas Stephen Szasz
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
-Michelangelo
You might say that we use ourselves to discover ourselves.
-Judith Hanson Lasater
You necessarily have to be lost, before you’re found.
-T. Scott McLeod
"All That Is Unspoken"
If you don't get lost, there's a chance you may never be found.
-Anonymous
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
-George Moore
There is a limit to how much you can change to be liked for who you really are.
-Robert Brault
By self-study, by observing, by being hollow and empty, you become a channel - you become a part of the Divine. You are able to feel the presence of Divinity. All the different angels and devas, all these different forms of our consciousness, start blossoming.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar "Sri Sri Ravi Shankar"
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
-Anna Quindlen
