Top 100 Quotes About True Self
#1. Perhaps the True Self
and the full Christ Mystery (not the same as organized Christianity)
will always live in the backwaters of any empire and the deep mines of any religion.
Richard Rohr
#2. I say what I think," said the woman. "My people don't hide behind masks."
"You certainly do," said Awt, equably. "Your mask is rudeness and offensively plain speech. We only see how you wish to appear, not your true self. Mask or not, Watchman Inarakhat has been more honest than you.
Ann Leckie
#3. Whoever gives his true self away does do with words
Alice Hoffman
#4. If we are unfaithful to true self, we will extract a price from others. We will make promises we cannot keep, build houses from flimsy stuff, conjure dreams that devolve into nightmares, and other people will suffer - if we are unfaithful to true self.
Parker J. Palmer
#5. The mind-speech-body are effective. When will they not have effect on one? It is when one realizes one's own [True] Self. It is when one attains the awareness, 'I am indeed absolute Supreme Self (Parmatma).
Dada Bhagwan
#6. Being fully in the present, you experience the timeless. In the timeless, you find your true self.
Deepak Chopra
#7. If we enter into ourselves, find our true self, and then pass beyond the inner "I", we sail forth into the immense darkness in which we confront the "I AM" of the Almighty.
Thomas Merton
#8. They say the eyes are the windows to our soul; glass gateways that do little to conceal our true self. Yet, for me, they're also the narrators of our heart and give insight to our well-kept secrets... secrets I wanted to remain hidden.
K.M. Golland
#9. Self-care is never a selfish act - it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer others. Anytime we can listen to true self and give the care it requires, we do it not only for ourselves, but for the many others whose lives we touch.
Parker J. Palmer
#10. How often must I get lost in a strange land of fairytales so that I can find my true self?
Debasish Mridha
#11. When true self-remembering comes, one does not want to alter oneself, or others; one somehow rises above their weaknesses and one's own. There can be no blame anywhere. One swallows what is, and becomes free.
Rodney Collin
#12. One can only walk so far from one's true self before the bond either snaps, or pulls one back.
Robin Hobb
#13. Getting someone behind the wheel of a car is like putting them into deep hypnosis; their true self comes out. In vehicle veritas. Israelis, for instance, drive both defensively and offensively at the same time, which is, come to think of it, the way Israelis do pretty much everything.
Eric Weiner
#14. The simplest definition of spirituality is self-awareness. Inside yourself is the peace, love, and truth that are attributes of God. When you contact this place, you meet your true self.
Deepak Chopra
#15. One should take care of one's own [True] Self and do supervision of everything else.
Dada Bhagwan
#16. And as you wait for something that may never happen, you'll continue to hide behind a wall of your own making. You're afraid if you showed a woman who you really are, she will not love you. So, you choose to hide your true self behind a mask of arrogance.
L.G. Castillo
#17. We had little idea that this was the beginning of a much greater journey towards finding our true self, with Rumi and Shams as our fearless guides.
Jamila Hammad
#18. I want to challenge myself and do new things.
I don't know what it's like to be my true self. But it's more interesting that way.
Even if you don't know yourself?
If you don't know it means you can become anything you want to be, right?
Peach-Pit
#19. Unless there is a 'clear evident experience of the True Self' [spasthvedan], till then 'Principle' cannot be attained.
Dada Bhagwan
#20. We all got to die," she said. "But dying as your true self is always better. God'll take you however you come to Him. But it's easier on a soul to come to Him clean. You're forever free that way. From top to bottom.
James McBride
#21. What will a man gain by winning the whole world, at the cost of his true self?
Jesus
#22. Another clue to finding true self and vocation: we must withdraw the negative projections we make on people and situations-projections that serve mainly to mask our fears about ourselves-and acknowledge and embrace our own liabilities and limits.
Parker J. Palmer
#23. Just remember that this relationship is based on mutual trust and respect, so never reveal your true self.
Betsy Lerner
#25. Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self.
Ralph Marston
#26. Choosing succulence is a deliberate act of personal revolution. It means waking up! Embracing your true self, studying your patterns, and letting out your most alive self. We all have one.
SARK
#27. God is all that exists. Every stone, flower, tree, animal and human being are on a spiritual journey to recognize their true self, their divine essence.
Swami Dhyan Giten
#28. Life is not about finding your true self, but creating who you wish to be.
Steven Redhead
#29. Seeing is 'making,' whether you see with your mind or your true self. Try to see with your self, your self and your beast together, and not your busy, frightened mind.
Katherine Catmull
#30. Your true self is a treasure of all divine virtues.
Ma Jaya
#31. Pride is a deeply rooted ailment of the soul. The penalty is misery; the remedy lies in the sincere, life-long cultivation of humility, which means true self-evaluation and a proper perspective toward past, present and future.
Robert Gordis
#32. There is a way to again be in real time with the universe,
but it is not through force, imagination or manipulation.
It is by finding your true Self.
When you do, you will not need to manipulate life, it will simply flow.
Mooji
#33. Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.
Viktor E. Frankl
#34. How hurtful it can be to deny one's true self and live a life of lies just to appease others.
June Ahern
#35. I know that love is about power, too. Who gives, who takes. Who is willing to risk showing their true self.
Alison Goodman
#36. Breathe and Be Reborn
Into the Lightness
Of your Heart and Inner Truths.
Speak ...
in the Silence of Dreams,
Knowing the words
Bring the peace into your Soul.
Radiant the Love that is your True Self
and Again ...
Be Reborn.
Jennifer Hillman
#37. Do your fears warn of external dangers? Or, are they the kind that keep you from becoming more of your true self?
Gina Greenlee
#38. FIND YOU OWN TRUE SELF & GIVE LOTS & LOTS OF LOVE TO THAT TRUE SELF!! Keep YOURSELF HAPPY, it's all that really matters.
Abhishek Kumar
#39. True self is the part of us that does not change when circumstances do.
Mason Cooley
#40. Do whatever work feeds your true self, even if it's not a safe bet, even if it's like a crazy risk, even if everyone in your life tells you you're wrong or bad or crazy.
Martha Beck
#41. The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.
Wayne Dyer
#42. Over the years, I learned to smile or laugh when I was supposed to. I kept my true self hidden; I did not need to unleash my pain on the world around me. Instead, I taught myself to ignore it. I did not realize that the pain was eating away at my soul.
J.D. Stroube
#43. Your surroundings, home, personal care, pets, clothing & body are all reflections of how you see and express yourself. Do these reflect your true self?
Christiane Northrup
#44. The heart and mind can find peace and harmony by contemplating the transcendental nature of the true self as supreme effulgent life.
Patanjali
#45. It's dreadfully tiresome to keep one's true self hidden" -Hattie
Jessica Lawson
#46. Having margins in your life strips away external voices and allows that person to remember and honor the true self within.
Angela Lynne Craig
#47. Nourishing the soul is the process of drinking at the life stream, coming back to one's true self, embracing the whole of one's experience - good, bad, or ugly; painful or exalted; dull or boring.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#48. So, Eva Nine, you must sometimes disregard what someone is saying and focus instead on what they are doing. Watch and observe. That is when one reveals his true self.
Tony DiTerlizzi
#50. Your clothes are not your true self; your outer appearance is not your true self; your heart inside your body is not your true self and your words are not your true self. Your true self is your hidden thoughts that no one knows about them!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#51. The free expression of resentment against one's parents represents a great opportunity. It provides access to one's true self, reactivates numbed feelings, opens the way for mourning and - with luck - reconciliation.
Alice Miller
#52. Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.
Wendell Pierce
#53. True self confidence happens when you stop blaming others for not seeing what you love about yourself. Not everyone has the same list of needs.
Shannon L. Alder
#54. We are only actors and yet we identify so intensely with the part we are playing, that we forget our true Self. Through yoga meditation, Self- inquiry, and living in accord with natural law do we wake up from the dream, or at least realize we are the dreamer.
Richard Fish
#55. To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives. - Denis Waitley.
Denis Waitley
#56. Peter opens his eyes and they are tearless and fierce, revealing a glimpse of his true self. Pure animalistic strength. There was never any fear for him to hide.
Dan Krokos
#57. Can you imagine, finally showing your true self to your spouse, your soul mate, and having him not like you? So that's how the hating first began. I've thought about this a lot, and that's where it started, I think.
Gillian Flynn
#58. To know what that true self is without social pressure is to know your true nature.
Martha Beck
#59. Intelligent resistance keeps the true self alive
Mary Pipher
#60. I've spent a lifetime practicing, becoming who I must be to survive. Hiding in plain sight, always acting, always playing a part. There are times when I fear that I'll lose me, my true self, in the haze of the facade. But that fear doesn't matter to anyone besides myself.
Sara B. Larson
#61. Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#62. True beauty can only be found in the true Self.
Ka Chinery
#63. There was a way in which my grandmother's true self was not these guests' business; no one's true self was the business of more than a very small number of family members or close friends.
Curtis Sittenfeld
#64. What destroys a craving? Realization of one's true self. - Shankara, a ninth-century sage
Carol Cottrill
#65. Our sweetest existence is relative and collective and our true self is not entirely in us. Such is man's constitution in this life that he never succeeds in truly enjoying himself without the help of other people.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#66. A person's true nature, true self, cannot change with situations.
It is totally consistent.
Abhishek Ratna
#67. When we come in contact with our true self, we stop trying to be someone else. We fall in love with it and embrace it with all its flaws
Assegid Habtewold
#68. I'm on the path to being someone I'm equally terrified by and obsessed with. My true self.
Troye Sivan
#69. Might be that marriage was not the death of a woman and the end of her true self, but the unfolding of her. It might be that a woman could be a wife without having to cut the pride and the spirit out of herself. A woman might blossom into being a wife, not be trimmed down to fit.
Philippa Gregory
#70. True self-reliance does not mean reliance on one's physical strength; it means reliance on something mightier, something which is less perishable ... It means trusting in the spiritual.
Swami Paramananda
#71. Your technology is the inner practice of meditation, which will stimulate the link between your brain and ignite your innate desire to know your True Self. Trust yourself in a deeper way & reap the rewards!
Michael Beckwith
#72. Fear closes all doors to the true self, that brilliant center where the ecstasy lies.
Kenny Werner
#73. The whole world has the illusory awareness of, 'I am the doer'. In reality, everyone's karmas are getting discharged, but one is not aware of this. One has no awareness of his own True Self.
Dada Bhagwan
#74. Anger-pride-deceit-greed are in the form of 'discharge'. But if one does not have 'knowledge of True Self' (realization of the self), then he 'charges' new karmas within.
Dada Bhagwan
#75. Find your true self. The old question, asked in many ages, "Who am I?" Once you figure out who am I, and you know who am I, then you have that knowledge of self.
RZA
#76. Religion is about integration, about successfully bringing the selfish ego into line with the centre of the personality where God exists, as a divine spark, in every human being. Religion is about helping man to live in harmony with his true self and to become the person God's designed him to be.
Susan Howatch
#77. For me to be a saint means to be myself. Therefore the problem of sanctity and salvation is in fact the problem of finding out who I am and of discovering my true self.
Thomas Merton
#78. Is the beam from a lighthouse affected by howling wind and rain? It remains perfectly steadfast and unaffected by the storm. Your true self is like that. Nothing can ever harm you once you are consciously aware that it is so.
Vernon Howard
#79. When the mind opens by speaking denials, this true Self that philosophers have so long striven to free shows itself all glorious with wisdom, strength, and holiness ... Denial of evil is a word of Truth.
Myrtle Fillmore
#80. Your true self is beyond either relying on others or avoiding them in order to know who you are.
Kosho Uchiyama
#81. What we call the personality is often a jumble of genuine traits and adopted coping styles that do not reflect our true self at all but the loss of it.
Gabor Mate
#82. If we look at the world with a deluded body and mind, we will think that our self is permanent. But if we practice correctly and return to our true self, we will realize that nothing is permanent
Dogen
#83. The punishment imposed on us for claiming true self can never be worse than the punishment we impose on ourselves by failing to make that claim.
Parker J. Palmer
#84. A man will reveal his true self, or so it seems, on the tennis court.
Joyce Carol Oates
#85. When you forget about your self consciousness for a moment, you forget about your true self, your real you and your true purpose for a moment
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#86. The bed in which we spend a third of our lives functions as a kind of protective haven for the true self, the subconscious refuge from the assault of the external world. The bed becomes the restorative womb, where the imagination is nurtured while our resting bodies are safe.
Keith Donohue
#87. The line between true self and feigned self is blurred on all sides.
Gayle Forman
#88. Everything is part of one web, one matrix of existence, beyond discussion. This is our true self in its undifferentiated form.
Frederick Lenz
#89. False self is an identity based on what you have, what you do, and what others think about you. In stark contrast to this is the true self in Christ, which is who we are before God and in God - Christ living in us, as Paul put it to the churches in Galatia
Basil Pennington
#90. There is only supreme bliss in the Soul, our True Self. But this bliss is obstructed because of impure inner intents.
Dada Bhagwan
#91. The soul journey is about giving birth to your true self
Elisa Romeo
#92. Embracing your true self radiates a natural beauty that cannot be diluted or ignored. Confident, powerful, untamable, badass you!
Steve Maraboli
#93. Selfishness is the biggest form of helplessness as it makes the person blind so much that he fails to search his true self for being always in the lurch.
Anuj
#94. I do realize, however, while striving to be your true self to the level I do, there will be pushback, resistance, and misunderstanding. I look at each of these experiences as an opportunity to educate and make the path potentially less daunting for anyone else that follows in my footsteps.
Joanna Lohman
#95. When we awaken to the beauty of nature, the doors to our true self are opened up wide, for divine healing on all levels.
Robyn
#96. It is only when you have become that true Self consciously, when all these illusions have fallen away, that you will be perfectly free and perfectly happy.
Frederick Lenz
#98. When there is nothing left to lose, we find the true self - the self that is whole, the self that is enough, the self that no longer looks to others for definition, or completion, or anything but companionship on the journey.
Elizabeth Lesser
#99. I have found the old adages to be true. One can only walk so far from one's true self before the bond either snaps, or pulls one back. I am fortunate. I have been pulled back. I walk once more in trueness to myself."
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Robin Hobb
#100. Buddhist teachings are meant to awaken our true self, not merely to add to our storehouse of knowledge. From
Thich Nhat Hanh
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