© Silver Lining Of Your Cloud 2014
Silver Lining Of Your Cloud
Life Quotes and Sayings
Finding Yourself
The true profession of man is to find his way to himself. ~Hermann Hesse
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside,
dreams. Who looks inside, awakens. ~Carl Jung
There is only one journey. Going inside yourself. ~Rainer Maria Rilke
People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the
long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the
stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering. ~St. Augustine
No journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an
equal distance into the world within. ~Lilian Smith
A genuine odyssey is not about piling up experiences. It is a deeply felt, risky,
unpredictable tour of the soul. ~Thomas Moore
When I let go of what I am,I become what I might be.~Lao Tzu
Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.
~Buddha
The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved; it is a reality to be experienced. ~Aart
van der Leeuw
Let your heart’s light guide you to my home.Let your heart’s light show you that we are
one.~Rumi
At the center of your being you have the answer: you know who you are and you know
what you want. ~Lao Tzu
Remember, the entrance door to the sanctuary is inside you. ~Rumi
The self must know stillness before it can discover its true song. ~Ralph Blum
Your innermost sense of self, of who you are, is inseparable from stillness. It is the I
Am that is deeper than name and form. ~Eckhart Tolle
To be at peace with ourselves we need to know ourselves. ~Caitlin Matthews
As long as I am this or that, I am not all things. ~Meister Eckhart
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new
eyes. ~Marcel Proust
Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and
be yourself. ~Herman Hesse
I see the potential for a new world being born in front of me and all around me, and I
feel the only way to bring that potential into being is to know myself. ~Gary Zukav
Who in the world am I? Ah, that’s the great puzzle. ~Lewis Carroll
Wherever I go, I meet myself. ~Tozan
When true self-remembering comes, one does not want to alter oneself, others; one
somehow rises above their weaknesses and one’s own. There can be no blame
anywhere. One swallows what is, and becomes free. ~Rodney Collin
It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are. ~e. e. cummings
It is not the body, nor the personality that is the true self. The true self is eternal. Even
on the point of death we can say to ourselves, “my true self is free. I cannot be
contained. ~Marcus Aurelius
The question “Who am I?” is not really meant to get an answer; the question “Who am
I?” is meant to dissolve the questioner. ~Ramana Maharshi
I could give you no advice but this: to go into yourself and to explore the depths where
your life wells forth. ~Rainer Maria Rilke
Don’t stand by my grave and weep,
for I am not there, I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow,
I am the diamond’s glint on the snow,
I am sunlight on ripened grain,
I am the gentle autumn’s rain.
Don’t stand by my grave and cry.
I am not there, I did not die.
~unknown Native American
Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You
cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it. ~Osho
Nothing is more useless and frustrating than trying to make sense of life without first
making sense of yourself. ~Vernon Howard
The world’s thy ship and not thy home. ~St. Therese de Lisieux
The whole universe is my true personality. ~Zen master
There is only Being, Being everything. ~Jeff Foster
Wherever you are is the entry point. ~Kabir
The easiest thing in the world to be 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
Search your heart and see, the way to do is to be. ~Lao Tzu
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are. ~Joseph Campbell
Who you really are, your True Nature, is no more tied to the kind of person you’ve
been than the wind is tied to the skies through which it moves. Your past is just that, the
past, a place within your psyche with no more reality to it than a picture of a castle on a
postcard is made from stone. ~Guy Finley
Knowing yourself is to be rooted in Being, instead of lost in your mind. ~Eckhart Tolle
To know yourself you need not go to any book, to any priest, to any psychologist. The
whole treasure is within yourself. ~J. Krishnamurti
Where is home? Home is where the heart can laugh without shyness. Home is where
the heart’s tears can dry at their own pace. ~Vernon Baker
The more of ourselves we put into having, the less of ourselves we have. ~unknown
The more of ourselves we give,
The more of ourselves we find.
~Augustine
Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free. ~John 8:32
Find yourself first and endless blessings will follow. ~J. Krishnamurti
The self is not to be shaped,
it is to be discovered.
It is not to be desired, wished or prayed for.
Its true beauty is found in the mystery unfolding out of the moment.
~Openhand
Your duty is to be; and not to be this or that. ~Ramana Maharshi
What you are seeking is here. ~Horace
Who is journeying for freedom? The one who is already free. Thoughts are
impediments to seeing your own face. Don’t give rise to any thought, and discover who
you are. ~Papaji
Only one task to do here: find out who you are. How do you find out who you are?
Dive into the silence and see. ~Satguru Siva Ogaswami
What you seek is already within you. You uncover it by shedding all that is untrue
within you. ~Sampo Kaasila
When you awaken, you realize that the separate person you took yourself to be is just a
contract, a mental fabrication. ~Stephan Bodian
Look within. The secret is inside you. ~Hui-Neng
I wandered in pursuit of my own self; I was the traveler, and I am the destination.
~Muhammed Iqbal
Say not, “I have found the path of the soul.” Say rather, “I have met the soul walking
upon my path. ~Kahlil Gibran
Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself. ~Herman
Hesse
All spiritual seeking begins with the questions, ‘Who am I? Where did I come from?
Where am I going? What is the true essence of my being?’ ~Haridas Chaudhuri
It is a pathless path because it’s unique to each seeker and keeps changing as the
journey unfolds. Even more essentially, it isn’t really a path at all, because there’s
nowhere to go and nothing to discover; everything you need to know and be is right
here and now–indeed it is the very here and now that you are. ~Stephan Bodian
You cannot describe truly what you are but you can enjoy and directly experience what
you are. Therein lies the joy of existence. ~Matt Kahn
If you travel far enough, one day you will recognize yourself coming down the road to
meet you. And you will say Yes. ~Marion Woodman
Fear is a distraction from ‘what is,’ from the present actual moment, preventing us from
existing, from being what we are. ~Vanda Scaravelli
Your true nature was never born and can never die. It shines through the whole
universe. ~Huang-Po
Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home. ~Matsuo Basho
You cannot find yourself by going into the past. You can find yourself by coming in the
present. ~Eckhart Tolle
On close introspection you will find that what you really mean by “I” is the ground of
all experience. ~Erwin Schrondinger
The traveler has to knock at every alien door to come to his own, and one has to wander
through all the outer worlds to reach the innermost shrine at the end. ~Rabindranath
Tagore
We all owe it to ourselves to know who we are. To know the truth of our existence.
~Gregg Braden
I have an existential map; it has ‘you are here’ written all over it. ~Steven Wright
Are you your clothes? Are you your name? Are you your profession? Stop identifying
with them. They come and go. ~Anthony de Mello
Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again. ~Joseph Campbell
I have an existential map; it has ‘you are here’ written all over it. ~Stephen Wright
Your experiences cannot tell you who you are; they do not define you in any way. You
are not that which you experience. You are not a victim of your experiences. There is an
essential essence, a core within you that is not touchable by any experience. This is
why happiness cannot be affected by exterior circumstances; happiness is a fragrance
rising from this core essence. This is who you really are. ~Jac O’keeffe
The more you know yourself, the more you forgive yourself. ~Confucius
Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they’re supposed to help you
discover who you are. ~Bernice Johnson Reagon
Your true nature is incomprehensible to your intellect. ~Sivananda Radha
Your treasure house is within; it contains all you’ll ever need. ~Hui-Hai
The search for self-worth begins by finding what is indestructible inside, then letting it
be. ~Prudence Kohl
My only hope for you as a seeker wishing to find your way back home, is to burn the
map you’re following, and realize what you already are. ~Matt Kahn
Life is the opportunity to remember who you are and express what you are. ~Steven
Sadleir
No thought can tell you who you are. ~Michael Jeffreys
Your identity is not equivalent to your biography. There is a place in you where you
have never been wounded, where there’s a seamlessness in you, and where there is a
confidence and tranquility. ~John O’Donohue
Inside us there is something that has no name. That something is what we are. ~Jose
Saramago
You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself. ~Alan Alda
Forget what can be forgotten and know yourself to be that which can never be
forgotten. ~Papaji
It is my experience that the world itself has a role to play in our liberation. Its very
pressures, pains, and risks can wake us up–release us from the bonds of ego and guide
to our vast, true nature. ~Joanna Marcy
Search back into your own vision–think back to the mind that thinks. Who is it? ~Wu-
Men
Seeing beauty in a flower can awaken one to the beauty that is an essential part of their
innermost being. ~Eckhart Tolle
Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves. ~Henry David Thoreau
There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our
lives. ~Josephine Hart
The desire to know your own Soul will end all other desires. ~Rumi
We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we withdraw into our innermost self. It
is a way of bitter suffering. But then our solitude is overcome, we are no longer alone,
for we find that our innermost self is the spirit, that it is God, the indivisible. And
suddenly we find ourselves in the midst of the world, yet undisturbed by its
multiplicity, for our innermost soul we know ourselves to be one with all being.
~Hermann Hesse
The finding of God is the coming to one’s own self. ~Meher Baba
Self-inquiry meditation is not a path that leads you anywhere. It is a path that stops you
in your tracks—right in the present moment—so that you can fully discover directly for
yourself who or what you truly are right in the now. ~Gangaji
When you rest in quietness and your image of yourself fades, and your image of the
world fades, and your ideas of others fade, what’s left? A brightness, a radiant
emptiness that is simply what you are. ~Adyashanti
The self is like a pearl. To find it you must dive deep down into silence, deeper and
ever deeper until it is reached. ~Ramana Maharshi
The greatest adventure is not going to the moon, the greatest adventure is going to your
own innermost core. ~Osho
Self-knowledge has no end–you don’t come to an achievement, you don’t come to a
conclusion. It is an endless river. ~Jiddu Krishnamurti
From silence you come, to silence you go. Enter your inner space and know where you
come from. The eternal silence awaits you with endless patience. ~unknown
My advice to you is very simple—-just remember yourself, ‘I am,’ it is enough to heal
your mind and take you beyond, just have some trust. If you want to know your true
nature, you must have yourself in mind all the time, until the secret of your being
stands revealed. ~Nisargadatta Maharaj
You say that you are just a body, but inside of you is something greater than the
universe. ~Iman Shafi
You embrace some form
saying, “I am this.”
By God you are not this
or that or the other
you and spirit are the same.
~Rumi
Do not seek the answers. Let the answers find you. ~Leonard Jacobson
Drop the question [Who or What Am I?] into the stillness of your being like a pebble
dropped into a still forest pool. Let it send ripples through your meditation. ~Stephan
Bodian
No longer fascinated with your internal and external conflicts, you start to see what you
really are. ~Adyashanti
There is a presence, a silence, a stillness which is here by itself. There is no doer of it,
no creator of this stillness. It is simply here in you, with you. It is the fragrance of your
own self. There is nothing to do about this, it is naturally present. This fragrance of
peace, this spaciousness, it is the fragrance of your own being. ~Mooji
Before you have freed yourself from your mind–you may get glimpses of true joy, true
love, or of a deep inner peace, still but vibrantly alive. These are aspects of your true
nature. ~Eckhart Tolle
True happiness cannot be found in things that change and pass away. Pleasure and pain
alternate inexorably. Happiness comes from the self and can be found in the self only.
Find your real self and all else will come with it. ~Nisargadatta Maharaj
If you really want to know what you are, just experience the gap, experience the
openness, and let it bloom inside. There is no better way to find out what you are.
~Adyashanti
There is only one of us here – I am. Open to I am and you will realize that you are
everything. ~Yogani
They see that who they are is the silence in which sound is happening, the spaciousness
in which movement occurs. This kind of recognition, whether fleeting or abiding, is
called an awakening. ~Arjuna Ardagh
The Buddha realized, a person is not a finished, unchanging entity but a process
flowing from moment to moment. There is no real ‘being,’ merely an ongoing flow, a
continuous process of becoming. ~William Hart
Everything you accomplish as a human being is momentary, perishable. You come in
this world with nothing, you leave with nothing. You can peruse many things and die
without knowing who you are but if you know who you are you can never die. ~Mooji
We are madly, desperately, insanely afraid of the truth, and it is that fear that walls us
off from our unbounded nature. ~Jed McKenna
