New quotes about authenticity added 01 January, 2012
There is nothing to practice. To know yourself, be yourself. To be yourself, stop imagining yourself to be this or that. Just be. Let your true nature emerge. Don’t disturb your mind with seeking.
Nisargadatta Maharaj
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
Joseph Campbell
Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe, shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish.
John Jakes
Our cities and places are no longer ours. Our lives are zoned like we’re a resource to be managed… I wanted to live in a world that was an expression of who we are.
Mark Lakeman
You don't have to work at being in the high vibration that is natural to you, because it is natural to you. But you do have to stop holding the thoughts that cause you to lower your vibration. It's a matter of no longer giving your attention to things that don't allow your cork to float or don't allow you to vibrate in harmony with who you really are.
Abraham-Hicks, from the workshop in Silver Spring, MD on Saturday, April 19th, 1997
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, “This is the real me,” and when you have found that attitude, follow it.
William James
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
Hans Hofmann
Honesty is when there is harmony in what you think, say, and do.
from Love Is The Answer, by Gerald G Jampolsky
We admire people for their strength but we love them for their vulnerability.
Unknown
The universe works on a need-to-know basis; when we ask we are answered.
from Ask Your Angels, by Alma Daniel, Timothy Wyllie, Andrew Ramer
Everything we see is but a mirror of what we are.
from Goodbye to Guilt, by Gerald G Jampolsky
The universe will pay you to be yourself and do what you really love.
Shakti Gawain, author of Creative Visualization: Use the Power of Your Imagination to Create What You Want in Your Life, Living in the Light: A Guide to Personal and Planetary Transformation and Reflections in the Light: Daily Thoughts and Affirmations
There are many who are living far below their possibilities because they are continually handing over their individualities to others. Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself. Be true to the highest within your soul and then allow yourself to be governed by no customs or conventionalities or arbitrary man-made rules that are not founded on principle.
Ralph Waldo Trine, author of In Tune With the Infinite and The Greatest Thing Ever Known 1898
Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
Janis Joplin – see Scars of Sweet Paradise: The Life and Times of Janis Joplin
Being our Self is the wisest philosophy, the bravest action, the kindest consideration and the greatest act of healing imaginable.
from Living Wonderfully, by Robert Holden (see other works by Robert Holden)
To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
from Hamlet, by William Shakespeare
Stop trying to figure out what is ‘best’ for you (how you can win the most, lose the least, get what you want) and start going with what feels like Who You Are.
from Conversations with God, Book 2, by Neale Donald Walsch
Integrity is that congruence between our inner and outer worlds.
from Where Do I Go From Here? An Inspirational Guide To Making Authentic Career and Life Choices, by Dr Kenneth C Ruge
You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) Irish Writer, author of She Stoops to Conquer
Will today be the day you decide once and for all to make your life consistent with the quality of your spirit? Then start by proclaiming, “This is what I am. This is what my life is about. And this is what I’m going to do. Nothing will stop me from achieving my destiny. I will not be denied!”
from Awaken the Giant Within, by Anthony Robbins
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end in life.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) author of Treasure Island
No matter what your work, let it be your own. No matter what your occupation, let what you are doing be organic. Let it be in your bones. In this way, you will open the door by which the affluence of heaven and earth shall stream into you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson – see The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson and The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Writings by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dare to declare who you are. It is not far from the shores of silence to the boundaries of speech. The path is not long, but the way is deep. You must not only walk there, you must be prepared to leap.
Hildegard Von Bingen – see Hildegard Von Bingen's Mystical Visions: Translated from Scivias and Selected Writings: Hildegard of Bingen
The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.
Leo Buscaglia
Never so act, in any manner, in any inclination, that there may ever be an experience of regret within self. Let the moves and the discourteousness, the unkindness, all come from the other. Better to be abased … and have the peace within! … act ever in the way ye would like to be acted toward. No matter what others say or even do, do as ye would be done by; and then the peace that has been promised is indeed thine own.
Edgar Cayce Reading 1183-3 – see Twelve Lessons in Personal Spirituality: An Overview of the Edgar Cayce Readings on Personal Transformation
To aim at the best and to remain essentially ourselves is one and the same thing.
Janet Erskine Stuart
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, "This is the real me," and when you have found that attitude, follow it.
William James (1842-1909) American psychologist and author
To be nobody-but-yourself – in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you somebody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
ee cummings (1894-1962) American poet and author
Confidence on the outside begins by living with integrity on the inside.
Brian Tracy
Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself.
Harvey Fierstein
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
Lao Tzu
If I could choose
Freely in that great treasure-house
Anything from any shelf,
I would give you back yourself,
And power to discriminate
What you and and want it not too late.
Edward Thomas
The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be.
Socrates (469-399 BC) Greek philosopher
The inner voices of the body want to speak to us, to inform us of the truths beneath the fixed surface of our external lives.
from Anam Cara, Spiritual Wisdom from the Celtic World (p75), by John O’Donohue
Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself.
Harvey Fierstein
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