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
There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives.
-Josephine Hart
Knowing who you are is the best defense against who they think you are.
-Dodinsky
Better to start up a thousand wrong roads than to spend your life going nowhere because you know the way.
-Robert Brault
But there are other things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
"Notes from the Underground"
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"
Truth hurts - not the searching after; the running from!
-John Eyberg
In the end you don't so much find yourself as you find someone who knows who you are.
-Robert Brault
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
-Anna Quindlen
