A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
"Flight to Arras"
Quotations
Self - Discovery
Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
-Barbara Kingsolver
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
-Michel De Montaigne
There is deep wisdom within our very flesh, if we can only come to our senses and feel it.
-Elizabeth A. Behnke
Never mind searching for who you are. Search for the person you aspire to be.
-Robert Brault
If you have known yourself, you have known everything else. Know that, by knowing which, you will know everything else. The Bible says, “Seek that kingdom within you.” Once you have found that, then everything else will be automatically added unto you; you don’t have to go looking for things outside; they will all come to you.
-Satchidananda Saraswati "Swami Satchidananda"
By self-study, by observing, by being hollow and empty, you become a channel - you become a part of the Divine. You are able to feel the presence of Divinity. All the different angels and devas, all these different forms of our consciousness, start blossoming.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar "Sri Sri Ravi Shankar"
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
-Alexis Carrel
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
-Michelangelo
Knowing who you are is the best defense against who they think you are.
-Dodinsky
