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A leader will find it difficult to articulate a coherent vision unless it expresses his core values, his basic identity...one must first embark on the formidable journey of self-discovery in order to create a vision with authentic soul.
Sep 10, 2025
The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
There are 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.
The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man.
One was a book I read by Mahatma Gandhi. In it was a passage where he said that religion, the pursuing of the inner journey, should not be separated from the pursuing of the outer and social journey, because we are not isolated beings.
One's own self is well hidden from one's own self; of all mines of treasure, one's own is the last to be dug up.
It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before they die.
One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.
Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something.
There is no satisfaction that can compare with looking back across the years and finding you've grown in self-control, judgment, generosity, and unselfishness.
I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through.
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.
Never mind searching for who you are. Search for the person you aspire to be.
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
To find yourself, think for yourself.
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started.
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
Nail me to my car and I'll tell you who you are
Tell me how you read and I'll tell you who you are.
Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.
Tell me with whom you associate, and I will tell you who you are.
Tell me who your enemy is, and I will tell you who you are.
Tell me who you walk with, and I'll tell you who you are.
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us.
Your playing small does not serve the world. Who are you not to be great?
We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone and as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Your playing small doesn't serve the world.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.
There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.
You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.
Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.