Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
-Michelangelo
Quotations
Self - Discovery
No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
-Thomas Mann
Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
-Barbara Kingsolver
The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.
-Richard Bach
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
-Alexis Carrel
Knowing who you are is the best defense against who they think you are.
-Dodinsky
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
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"
Man can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can starve from a lack of bread.
-Richard Wright
"Native Son"
Truth hurts - not the searching after; the running from!
-John Eyberg
