Don't expect

Don't expect someone better, someone saner or more insightful or miraculously and infinitely wiser, to suddenly occupy your body no matter where you are.

~Oriah Mountain Dreamer

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Everything you need

Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else.

~Wayne Dyer

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Our deepest wishes

Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves.
We must learn to respect them.
We must learn to listen.

~ Sarah Ban Breathnach

The individual

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe."

~Friedrich Nietzsche

We are so accustomed

"We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others, that in the end, we become disguised to ourselves."

~François de la Rochefoucauld

to experience oneself

To experience oneself honestly, not lying to oneself, and to express myself honestly, now that is very hard to do."

~ Bruce Lee

Just keep coming home

“Just keep coming home to yourself.
You are the one you’ve been waiting for.”

~ Byron Katie

Thus bamboozled

"Thus bamboozled, the individual--instead of fulfilling his unique function in the world--is exhausted and frustrated in efforts to accomplish self-contradictory goals. Because he is now so largely defined as a separate person caught up in a mindless and alien universe, his principal task is to get one-up on the universe and to conquer nature."

~Alan Watts

In oneself

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

~Jiddu Krishnamurti

Be careful

“Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.”

~Kurt Vonnegut

Myself

"The 'myself' which I am beginning to recognize,which I had forgotten but actually know better than anything else, goes far back beyond my childhood, beyond the time when adults confused me and tried to tell me that I was someone else; when, because they were bigger and stronger, they could terrify me with their imaginary fears and bewilder and outface me in the complicated game that I had not yet learned."

~Alan Watts

I never thought

I never thought I was normal,
never tried to be normal.

~Charles Manson

When

When one is pretending,
the entire body revolts.

~Anais Nin

The easiest thing

The easiest thing in the world is to be what you are, what you feel. The hardest thing to be is what other people want you to be.

-Leo Buscaglia

At the center

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At the center of your being you have the answer;

you know who you are and you know what you want.

~Lao Tzu

Happiness is

Happiness is when what you think,
what you say,
and what you do are in harmony.

~Mahatma Gandhi

Most people

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinion, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."

~Oscar Wilde

Who

Who in the world am I?
Ah, that's the great puzzle.

~Lewis Carroll

I live in my own place

I live in my own place, have never copied nobody even half, and at any master who lacks the grace to laugh at himself - I laugh.

~Inscribed over the door to Nietzsche's house

Integrity is not

"Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won't cheat, then you know he never will."

~ John McDonald