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Discovering vocation does not mean scrambling toward some prize just beyond my reach but accepting the treasure of true self I already possess. Vocation does not come from a voice �out there� calling me to be something I am not. It comes from a voice �in here� calling me to be the person I was born to be, to fulfill the original selfhood given me at birth by God.
Sep 10, 2025
Discovering vocation does not mean scrambling toward some prize just beyond my reach but accepting the treasure of true self I already posses.
You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.
Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.
Like an old gold-panning prospector, you must resign yourself to digging up a lot of sand from which you will later patiently wash out a few minute particles of gold ore.
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering.
Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
Wanting to reform the world without discovering one's true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes.
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.
For most men, life is a search for the proper Manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
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.
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves.
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.
Man never knows what he wants; he aspires to penetrate mysteries and as soon as he has, wants to re-establish them. Ignorance irritates him and knowledge cloys.
What you discover on your own is always more exciting than what someone else discovers for you - it's like the marriage between romantic love and an arranged marriage.
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
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.
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.
It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.
Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.
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.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.
Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.
Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart.
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.
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.
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