Echoes

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.

I must also have a dark side if I am to be whole.

There are, strictly speaking, no enlightened people, there is only enlightened activity.

Therefore, this terror of the mind and the darkness must be dispelled not by the rays of the sun or the bright light of day, but by the appearance and reasoning of nature.

You need a change of soul rather than a change of climate.

It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.

Become what you are.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Without, everything seems discordant; only within does it coalesce into unity. Who looks outside dreams; who looks inside awakes.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be oneself.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

I know that I know nothing.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

Accept everything just the way it is.

Emotion is the chief source of all becoming-conscious. There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

The most common form of despair is not being who you are.