If you have known yourself, you have known everything else. Know that, by knowing which, you will know everything else. The Bible says, “Seek that kingdom within you.” Once you have found that, then everything else will be automatically added unto you; you don’t have to go looking for things outside; they will all come to you.
There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.
-Carol Shields
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.
No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
-Thomas Mann
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
-Alexis Carrel
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
If you aren't sure who you are, you might as well work on who you want to be.
-Robert Brault
We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Neurotic's Notebook"
Man can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can starve from a lack of bread.
-Richard Wright
"Native Son"
