100 Quotes About Know Thyself

The journey to self-awareness can be difficult, but it’s one every person needs to make. It’s not always an easy thing to do, but when you finally come to terms with who you are and where you want to go, the world becomes a much more exciting place. These quotes about know-thyself are inspirational and motivational because they help us see that we are capable of so much more than we may have initially thought.

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Life is like a game of chess. To win you have to make a move. Knowing which move to make comes with IN-SIGHTand knowledge, and by learning the lessons that areacculated along the way. We become each and every piece within the game called life! Allan Rufus
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To know a species, look at its fears. To know yourself, look at your fears. Fear in itself is not important, but fear stands there and points you in the direction of things that are important. Don't be afraid of your fears, they're not there to scare you; they're there to let you know that something is worth it. C. Joybell C.
Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render...
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Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world. Ramana Maharshi
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I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness. All seems beautiful to me. Whoever denies me, it shall not trouble me; Whoever accepts me, he or she shall be blessed, and shall bless me. Walt Whitman
Life is like a sandwich! Birth as one slice, and...
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Life is like a sandwich! Birth as one slice, and death as the other. What you put in-between the slices is up to you. Is your sandwich tasty or sour? Allan Rufus.org Allan Rufus
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When you know the knower within, you don't need to know further. When you know the meditator within, you don't need to meditate further. When you truly know the worshiper in you, you are to be worshiped. Amit Ray
Each person you meetis an aspect of yourself, clamoring for...
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Each person you meetis an aspect of yourself, clamoring for love. Eric Michael Leventhal
The closer you come to knowing that you alone create...
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The closer you come to knowing that you alone create the world of your experience, the more vital it becomes for you to discover just who is doing the creating. Eric Michael Leventhal
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Stored personal memories along with handed down collective memories of stories, legends, and history allows us to collate our interactions with a physical and social world and develop a personal code of survival. In essence, we all become self-styled sages, creating our own book of wisdom based upon our studied observations and practical knowledge gleaned from living and learning. What we quickly discover is that no textbook exist how to conduct our life, because the world has yet to produce a perfect person — an ideal observer — whom is capable of handing down a concrete exemplar of epistemic virtues. We each draw upon the guiding knowledge, theories, and advice available for us in order to explore the paradoxes, ironies, inconsistencies, and the absurdities encountered while living in a supernatural world. We mold our personal collection of information into a practical practicum how to live and die. Each day we define and redefine who we are, determine how we will react today, and chart our quest into an uncertain future. Kilroy J. Oldster
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I have realized; it is during the times I am far outside my element that I experience myself the most. That I see and feel who I really am, the most! I think that's what a comet is like, you see, a comet is born in the outer realms of the universe! But it's only when it ventures too close to our sun or to other stars that it releases the blazing "tail" behind it and shoots brazen through the heavens! And meteors become sucked into our atmosphere before they burst like firecrackers and realize that they're shooting stars! That's why I enjoy taking myself out of my own element, my own comfort zone, and hurling myself out into the unknown. Because it's during those scary moments, those unsure steps taken, that I am able to see that I'm like a comet hitting a new atmosphere: suddenly I illuminate magnificently and fire dusts begin to fall off of me! I discover a smile I didn't know I had, I uncover a feeling that I didn't know existed in me.. I see myself. I'm a shooting star. A meteor shower. But I'm not going to die out. I guess I'm more like a comet then. I'm just going to keep on coming back. C. Joybell C.
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It's definitely difficult being a woman and growing up a girl. When you're graceful, people say you lack personality; when you're serene, people say you're boring; when you're confident, people say you're arrogant; when you're feminine, people say you're too girly; and when you climb trees, people say you're too much of a tomboy! As a woman, you really need to develop a very strong sense of self and the earlier you can do that, the better! You have to be all the things that you are, without allowing other people's ignorance change you! I realized that they don't know what grace is, they can't identify serenity, they have inferiority complexes, they are incapable of being feminine, and they don't know how to climb trees! . C. Joybell C.
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We must not be defined by what we do, but we must be what and who we are, then only happen to do what we do! C. Joybell C.
Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never...
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Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have. Doris Mortman
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We all need a technological detox; we need to throw away our phones and computers instead of using them as our pseudo-defence system for anything that comes our way. We need to be bored and not have anything to use to shield the boredom away from us. We need to be lonely and see what it is we really feel when we are. If we continue to distract ourselves so we never have to face the realities in front of us, when the time comes and you are faced with something bigger than what your phone, food, or friends can fix, you will be in big trouble. . Evan Sutter
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Using reason without applying it to experience only leads to theoretical illusions. Ideas derived from real world experiences lead to acquisition of knowledge, and the accumulation of time-tested principles leads to wisdom. Kilroy J. Oldster
True wealth comes less from having riches than from knowing...
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True wealth comes less from having riches than from knowing how to live richly. Eric Michael Leventhal
The greatest education is the knowledge of God. God gives...
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The greatest education is the knowledge of God. God gives life, strength and wisdom for every accomplishment. Lailah Gifty Akita
To know yourself, you must first sacrifice the illusion that...
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To know yourself, you must first sacrifice the illusion that already you do. Vironika Tugaleva
The one great art is that of making a complete...
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The one great art is that of making a complete human being of oneself. G.I. Gurdjieff
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In life, we must choose to quiet ourselves and go through a period of reflection, an instance in time for evaluating our strengths vs. our weaknesses, an interval in time for recognizing the real from deceit, a moment in time for making necessary life adjustments for personal welfare. It's through such, we begin to know ourselves. D. Allen Miller
Stop giving people the power to control your smile, your...
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Stop giving people the power to control your smile, your worth, your attitude and your day. Don’t give anyone that much power over your life. Germany Kent
I am a living breathing word of GOD.
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I am a living breathing word of GOD. TemitOpe Ibrahim
Seek spirituality of thy soul.
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Seek spirituality of thy soul. Lailah Gifty Akita
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Practical affairs task the human brain throughout the day. At night, the mind takes a deserved hiatus to consider the impossible and the absurd. In the carnage of our nighttime sleep tussles, the colored liqueurs of the true, the possible, fantasy, and the mythic beliefs become intermixed. Eyelets of the commonsensical and the imaginative are incorporated, and a new realism emerges out of our distilled perception of the veridical derived from the phenomenal realm of sensory reality and the philosophic world of ideals contained in the noumenal realm. The resultant psychobiologic vision immerses us in bouts of intoxicating inspiration and artistic stimulation and leaves us rickety boned and weakened after enduring a dreaded hangover of perpetual doubt laced with vagueness and insecurity. Kilroy J. Oldster
We free our own mindseach time we pause to wonderwhether...
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We free our own mindseach time we pause to wonderwhether we are free. Eric Michael Leventhal
It’s important that young people know about the struggles we...
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It’s important that young people know about the struggles we faced to get to the point we are today. Only then will they appreciate the hard-won freedom of blacks in this country. Amelia Boynton Robinson
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Dear young woman, do not place your sense of beauty and self worth, upon the plastic pedestal called "what other people say to you", "what other people think about your photo", "how many 'likes' your pictures get", "how many guys tell you that you look sexy", "how skinny can you be?". A plastic pedestal that is but the dismal shadow of the real one. Dear young woman, place your sense of self worth and beauty upon the Roman marble pedestal that will exist even when all other people are no longer there. If you were the very last person on this planet, you should still be able to know within your heart that you are worthy, you are beautiful, you are wanted. Even if you become the very last person on Earth, you should be fully wanted. Want yourself. Know yourself. See yourself as beautiful, see yourself as worthy. C. Joybell C.
Quem pausa para admirar a beleza se torna tambem belo.(...
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Quem pausa para admirar a beleza se torna tambem belo.( One who pauses to admire beauty becomes, himself, beautiful.) Eric Michael Leventhal
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Everybody who flashed the signs of loyalty he took to be loyal. Everybody who flashed the signs of intelligence he took to be intelligent. And so he had failed to see into his daughter, failed to see into his wife, failed to see into his one and only mistress–probably had never even begun to see into himself Philip Roth
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The wounding becomes sacred when we are willing to release our old stories and to become the vehicles through which the new story may emerge into time. Jean Houston
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It’s easy to put the links between the increases in mental illness, depression, ADHD, and the like, with the speed of the modern world. People never get the chance to do nothing, or when they do, they lack the control to prevent their mind from racing off in a thousand different directions. So much so that their doing nothing becomes a thousand different things and the thousand different things becomes stress, anxiety, worry and fear. Left untreated these simple everyday things become well entrenched in our psyches and start to dominate our lives. We have a chronic addiction with doing and we love to use our busyness as a stamp of our hard work and hectic lives and we get stuck in this busy trap of always doing. Evan Sutter
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Some people spend their whole lives seeking heaven, when all they needed to do was look about them, and embrace that which was already there. Tom Althouse
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There is beauty all around us, and the light finds us when we realize, we are all part of that beauty and worth the cherishing. If we despise any, we journey to despise ourselves. See all as beautiful, even if they choose to see themselves through you, as being less than so. We have the power to see for each, and be the reflection of what they may yet see. Tom Althouse
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No matter how busy we may believe we are, we have the wonderful opportunity presently of investing time with loved ones. For those are the great investments we will be glad we made, when time begins to slow and the ability to tend turns tender. Tom Althouse
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I wish you allan ego freedriven day! Allan Rufus
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Change happens for youthe moment you want somethingmore than you fear it. Eric Michael Leventhal
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Note to Self — Thoughts design my energy! Mythoughts W I L Ldesign the energythat movesme! Allan Rufus
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I always have my reasons, even when I don't know what they are. Eric Michael Leventhal
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Imagination makes the worldand all the wonders in it. The seed of every dream unfurlsas you with love begin it! Eric Michael Leventhal
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Belief is made up of the same non-substance of which we ourselves are composed. The test of any belief system, then, is the degree to which this same light is permitted to shine through. Eric Michael Leventhal
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Hard work does not go unnoticed, and someday the rewards will follow Allan Rufus
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Note and Quote to Self — What you think, say and do! Your life mainly consists of 3 things! What you think, What you say and What you do! So always be very conscious of what you are co-creating! Allan Rufus
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NOTE TO SELF — BOOMERANG EFFECTMy words, thoughts and deeds have a boomerang effect. So be-careful what you send out! Allan Rufus
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Unless we take that first step into the unknown, we will never know our own potential! Allan Rufus
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Quotes and notes to self — Find your inner peace! Don’tbe caught up in your outer world. Paygreater attention to your inner world Allan Rufus
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Quotes and notes to self- Divine and Unique PowerFind out what my Individual Divineand Unique PowerISand offer it outwardsin harmonywith all life! Allan Rufus
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Enlightenment is the Goal - Love is the Game - Taking steps are the rules! - Allan Rufus Allan Rufus
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The most incredible architecture Is the architecture of Self, which is ever changing, evolving, revolving and has unlimited beauty and light inside which radiates outwards for everyone to see and feel. With every in breatheyou are adding to your lifeand every out breathe you are releasing what is not contributing to your life. Every breathe is a re-birth. Allan Rufus
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When thinking is overrated And friends are easy to make, Check if it's too complicated Knowing yourself somehow... Inner peace's not hard to take, Never lost or underestimated. Get out of social media... NOW! Ana Claudia Antunes
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You invoke a new futurewhen you envision your pastin the light of your present. Eric Michael Leventhal
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Everything changes as you move through three stages of awareness:first, that beliefs are the result of conditions;second, that beliefs are the cause of conditions;and third, that beliefs are themselves conditions. Eric Michael Leventhal
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The biggest loopholes created in the world become evident when people who were born to lead do not eventually become leaders and never know it! Israelmore Ayivor
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We must pursue knowledge and wisdom above all other things. Lailah Gifty Akita
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In the search for truth, what you believe matters lessthan how you believe. Eric Michael Leventhal
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Either nobody's perfect, or everyone is. Eric Michael Leventhal
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The question isn't whether the world is perfect. The real question to consider is: If it were, would you still be in it? Eric Michael Leventhal
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How many relationships would be better if they were born out of something genuine rather than merely a petty desire? Divorce would drop because people would know why they started doing something in the first place. Teen pregnancy would almost be eradicated because for the first time we wouldn’t need to simply succumb to our desires and cravings pushed onto us from the media and society in general. Prostitutes would be searching for redundancy packages and brothel owners for new careers, and the whole shallow and superficial nature of sex would be under the spotlight. Evan Sutter
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If everyone could spend some time self analysing, spend some quiet time with nothing to do and nowhere to go, then without a doubt the world would be an infinitely better place to live and play. It would probably be the cause of the end of bullying, teen suicide, anxiety, depression, stress, and fear and the start of a more genuine and authentic world. I have found that my tranquillity and peacefulness grew significantly stronger as I began to live comfortably with my desires and cravings. Evan Sutter
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Feeling bad is not the problem. The problem is that we feel bad about feeling bad. Once you begin to let go of feeling bad about feeling bad, and start feeling better about feeling bad, then pretty soon you'll just feel better. And then you'll feel awesome. Eric Michael Leventhal
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It seems like such an amazing predicament to me, how one does not become a better person by seeking out in the world those who are lesser than himself and then saying, "I will be better than you because you're not as good as me." You don't become better by looking at others and trying to be better than them. You become a better person by looking at yourself in the mirror, and, seeking to overcome and to overthrow all the flaws within yourself, you overcome the weaker you, the lesser you; you become the better You, the stronger You, the higher You. That's how it goes. C. Joybell C.
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See everything, but judge nothing. Just choose your own path and let others choose their own. See everything, but judge no one. Just focus on your own path and let others focus on their own. See everything, but judge not what you see. You have your own inner worlds to conquer, your own inner gardens to water and to hone. You have your own inner gold to mine. See all, judge not, know thyself. C. Joybell C.
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There is such a thirst to be known, isn't there? What is it about being known that would cause us to hunger so much after it, at any cost? I'm afraid too many of us have forgotten that far more noble is the journey that one embarks on to know oneself; than the trip one goes on in the search for fame. Isn't it better to know and to know and to know yourself and if your heart is found to be noble, isn't it better that you know this on your own and truly; rather than for you to chase after the thoughts that others might have of you? To be a true royal in heart is better than to be a false royal with a throne. C. Joybell C.
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Your observations and conclusions are mirrored illusions of your inner state of being, teaching you truth through falsehoods, strength through weakness and clarity through confusion. You are seeing your Self now, disguised as the world through a lens of denial, but you will soon come to realize that what you choose to deny in yourself manifests into your world. The flaws you see in your world are your most powerful teachers. Ka Chinery
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All forms of writing are an act of conception; writing must lead to creation. Each time that we write, we begin again. Writing is an act of self-affirmation. Each time that we place our thoughts onto paper, we receive a new opportunity to claim our reality. Writing is also an act of explication and deconstruction. Writing empowers us to shape and modify our fiery constitutions. Writing allows us to explore the essential ingredients that lead to a life of serenity by exhibiting compassion, love, patience, generosity, and forgiveness. . Kilroy J. Oldster
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In the beginning, it is difficult and even painful to see the faults in yourself, the flaws in your soul, the error of your ways. But I have come to love the moments when I see my flaws and I spot my errors! It is one of the most beautiful things, really! Because it is when we see our own flaws and our own errors that we can find the opposite of those things! It is when we see our own flaws and our own errors that we can see that there is so much more room to become better! And so I have come to actually rejoice when I find something wrong with me! And I know when it’s really wrong because I can see it and I can feel it in my heart both at the same time– it is a revelation. It’s not something that comes from any external source; but it is my own spirit and the voice of God revealing these things to me, unfolding them, rolling them out of a silken cloth at my feet. And I smile. . C. Joybell C.
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Our personal story has many chapters that reconnoiter universal themes. We each struggle to understand ourselves and aspire to make ourselves known to the world. We struggle to win the love of other people. We seek to pick all the low hanging fruit that we come across in our journey through the corridor of time. We write our story in the Niagara of emotional experiences that flowing watercourse makes us human. We use a profusion of words, symbols, and the nuances pulled from a rich library of language to depict the cascade of our visions, sounds, smells, tastes, feelings, dreams, and infelicitous thoughts. We use logical and dialectal thought processes when communing with our inner self. We use self-speak along with the esemplastic powers of poetic imagination, sprinkled with the fizz of creativity, to cohere disparate chapters of our life into a unified whole and relay the effervescence of our story to other people. Kilroy J. Oldster
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The belief that myths are somehow less true than the symbolic dream we call 'reality' may be the greatest myth of all. Eric Michael Leventhal
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The way to embody love completely is to see and appreciate life just as it is, and not as you believe, fear, or desire it to be. Eric Michael Leventhal
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The thing about traveling alone, is that you run into your insecurities and fears times ten the normal! You run into all the good things and all the bad things about yourself on a daily basis, and are allowed the opportunity to truly become your own friend. Traveling alone is a learning process; some people travel for leisure, I travel to run into myself! C. Joybell C.
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A healer's power stems not from any special ability, but from maintaining the courage and awareness to embody and express the universal healing power that every human being naturally possesses. Eric Michael Leventhal
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When you can no longer tell the difference between being yourself and being love, you are not far from waking up. Eric Michael Leventhal
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Search not for happiness outside yourself, for nothing could be further from the truth. Eric Michael Leventhal
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No matter how strange things get, know that with every breath, you are becoming that which you have always been. Eric Michael Leventhal
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The awareness that seeks to know is the very object of its own seeking. Eric Michael Leventhal
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All hatred is self-hatred, just as all healing is self-healing. Eric Michael Leventhal
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All beings are vast multidimensional masters. They may be exploring divinity or limitation, but they are masters nonetheless. Then it becomes ok to simply allow them their process. Ariel Tachiren
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If you ate nails, your stomach would hurt, and it’s a good thing that it would. Eating nails is deadly, thus the pain is helpful. Like this, sadness, anger, and anxiety are not to be feared or shamed, but listened to and decoded. Vironika Tugaleva
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Knowledge is learning without a limit. Lailah Gifty Akita
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My friends, life is so serious that if you are not aware of whom you are, your "youniversity" will be prestigious but unknown! Israelmore Ayivor
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You can’t be a big dreamer if you don’t where you are going. You can’t know where you are going unless you first know where you are. Israelmore Ayivor
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Know what you really want. Know why you want it and how you will get it. That's the key! Israelmore Ayivor
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Before you think of asking for support from someone for the success your dreams, ask yourself "how much of what I have can I invest?" Help yourself first! Israelmore Ayivor
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If you don't know yourself, you may easily blow away opportunities meant for your success! Know who you are made of and save your dreams from premature death! Israelmore Ayivor
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Drop down someone else's shoe and run to take your own quickly. Don't hire your own to anybody, else it profits you nothing! Brighten the corner where you are. Yes, you can! Israelmore Ayivor
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If you don't know what you want, others will want you for what they know! You must know yourself! Israelmore Ayivor
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If you see yourself as other people see you, it means you are lost, you don't know yourself and you have closed down a world class university of diligence! Israelmore Ayivor
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The best way to easily identify a counterfeit currency is to have a full exposure to the original currency. If you don't know your true vision, any satanic vision can cross your way and you might not know it. Israelmore Ayivor
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Previously, as I went through life, I was in full belief of the concept of "blending" (I was fully convinced that I as a person am completely capable of blending myself in the accordance of friendship, in order to give respect to the differences between people and in order for others to feel that I respect them). However, I have come to learn at this time in my life, that such an attitude is all good for a while, but then there does come a point where you must see and identify yourself; also see and identify others! You have to be able to identify yourself as someone who is made happy by this and as someone who doesn't like that; then when you meet people, discern if those same things are the things that make them happy and if those same things are the things that they don't like, because at a point in time it becomes beneficial to you, to not waste time on blending in behalf of virtue but rather it becomes beneficial to you, to see yourself and go into the direction that makes you happy, taking people with you that are already going in that same direction and who also do not like the things that you do not like. At the end of the day, there are those paths in life, and you have to take one of them, you can't walk down all of them. C. Joybell C.
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Our instrumental part in the symphony of life is to allow love to create a space within our own awareness, through which the undreamed mystery may emerge as a knowable reality. Eric Michael Leventhal
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With or without our knowledge, we are all alchemists. Eric Michael Leventhal
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He who fights is powerless, but he who loves is power itself. Eric Michael Leventhal
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It doesn't matter how you conceive of divinity. It only matters that you see it in everything, including yourself. Eric Michael Leventhal
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The sacred stillness of your brilliant hearthas as the myriad wonders masqueraded. But if you knew this secret from the start, then you'd have quit this Game before you played it. Eric Michael Leventhal
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Then he realized: 'I, indeed, am this creation; for I have poured it forth from myself.' In that way he became this creation. And verily, he who knows this becomes in this creation a creator. Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
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You are here on earth to unearth who on earth you are. Eric Michael Leventhal
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Perfection itself is not the ultimate goalbut the ultimate condition of life. Eric Michael Leventhal
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He has no need for faith who knows the uncreated, who has cut off rebirth, who has destroyed any opportunity for good or evil, and cast away all desire. He is indeed the ultimate man. Gautama Buddha
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Every 'no' is a 'yes' to something. Eric Michael Leventhal
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When you don't know yourself, who you are and what you want, you just become a product of your environment - a leaf that gets blown each and every way until it just lands, in a big pile of mud, and gets stuck. Evan Sutter
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All you need in life is to know thyself; to live with the knowledge that it’s just life and that's the way it is. You need a sense of what your life means to you, the appreciation of yourself, your friendships and the love of others. You need a desire to grow as a person, to discover what your gifts in life are to yourself, others, and the world. You are the only you in the world. Embrace who you are.. James A. Murphy