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And if you find everything as soon as you look for it, you find it in vain, you look for it in vain.
Sep 10, 2025
You cannot fully understand your own life without knowing and thinking beyond your life, your own neighborhood, and even your own nation.
That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.
Find what makes your heart sing and create your own music.
Man is almost mad-mad because he is seeking something which he has already got; mad because he's not aware of who he is; mad because he hopes, desires and then ultimately, feels frustrated. Frustration is bound to be there because you cannot find yourself by seeking; you are already there. The seeking has to stop, the search has to drop.
I think that wherever your journey takes you, there are new gods waiting there, with divine patience - and laughter.
My own experience is that everybody is born with a certain talent, and unless he lives that talent to its fullest, something in him will remain missing. He will go on feeling that somehow something is not there that should be.
Better to start up a thousand wrong roads than to spend your life going nowhere because you know the way.
Every choice before you represents the universe inviting you to remember who you are and what you want.
Life is too short to be living somebody else's dream.
There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself.
We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.
Your distress about life might mean you have been living for the wrong reason, not that you have no reason for living.
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
Now the choices you make are not about finding your path. Rather, they are choices to open the path you have found.
THERE are joys which long to be ours.
Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash from point A to point B very fast while other people dash from point B to point A very fast.
Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash from point A to point B very fast while other people dash from point B to point A very fast. People living at point C, being a point directly in between, are often given to wonder what's so great about point A that so many people from point B are so keen to get there and what's so great about point B that so many people from point A are so keen to get there. They often wish that people would just once and for all work out where the hell they wanted to be.
Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path.
Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.
Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself.
There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
For most men, life is a search for the proper Manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
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.
Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do.
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through.
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it's not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path.
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.
No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.
Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.
When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.
Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive
You will never come up against a greater adversary than your own potential, my young friend.
Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.
Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones.
Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!
Today you are you! That is truer than true!
If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.
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