“I always dream of it: that something will open my eyes, and open everything inside me as well.”
“Loving yourself may seem like the hardest thing to do. But it s the greatest gift you can give yourself. If you re waiting for someone else to do it for you, you re wasting your time.”
“Through you the world learns to recognize itself — as heaven.”
“I don t have to say so because people can see it from leagues away. I am ugly, shy and anachronistic, but by dint of not wanting to be those things I have pretended to be just the opposite.”
“There s always something we don t know anything about. she said. More than we like to admit. The more we discover, the more we realize we don t fully understand. Our world, our solar system, the universe... it all adds up. I mean, when you think about it-- do we even know that much about ourselves?”
“I had wanted to disappear, if only so the cancer could disappear with me. But the stars whispered that there was no such thing. You don’t ever disappear. You just change. You leave. You move on. But you never disappear. Even when you think you want to.”
“For there comes a day on which we will see a mirror of judgement; to gaze not on man, but within ourselves. what cometh on that day in you? truth or despair? love or hate?”
“When I m sad I tend to slide in to day dream and sing along whatever I hear on the radio.”
“You may travel the whole world, but you ll not find true religion anywhere. Whatever there is, it is in your own mind.”
“There are pearls in the deepest fathoms of the Self, but to get them you will have to go through unimaginable perils.”
“You are both the worshipper and the worshipped.”
“A man woke up at midnight and wanted to smoke. Therefore he looked for some fire, for which he went to a neighbor’s house and knocked at the door. The neighbor opened the door and asked him what he wanted. The man said, I wish to smoke. Can you give me a little fire? The neighbor replied, O.M.G.! What the heck is wrong with you? You have taken so much trouble to come and wake us up at the middle of the night, while in your own hand you have a lantern! The God that human beings so keenly seek, lives within the human biology, yet they wander hitherto searching for it.”
“Sometimes we hold the world in our hands, but in our greed for more let it fall, losing everything that we once had.”
“There is always a worthwhile price for discovery. Discover who you are. Know yourself.”
“The greatest mistake is to think that we ever know why we do things...I suppose the nearest we can ever come to it is by getting what old people call experience. But by the time we ve got that we re no longer the persons who did the things we no longer understand. The trouble is, I suppose, that we change every moment; and the things we did stay.”
“Be careful not to think that just because you know what a person is going to say, you know what that person is going to do. Be careful not to think that just because you know what a person is going to do to others, you know what that person is going to do (or not do) to you.”
“Self-discovery changes everything, including your relationships with people. When you find your authentic self, those who loved your mask are disappointed. you may end up alone, but you don’t need to stay alone. While it’s painful to sever old connections, it’s not a tragedy. it’s an opportunity. Now, you can find people who understand the importance of looking for truth and being authentic. Now you can find people who want to connect deeply, like you’ve always wanted to, instead of constant small talk and head games. Now you can have real intimacy. Now, you can find your tribe.”