If you are on an honest journey to find yourself, you'll find God.
Interpretation
This quote suggests that the pursuit of self-discovery leads to a deeper understanding of spirituality or a connection with the divine.
Martin Sheen's quote emphasizes the significance of personal integrity and self-exploration in the journey of life. It suggests that those who genuinely seek to understand their true selves will inevitably encounter profound spiritual truths, often interpreted as finding God. This journey is portrayed as one that requires honesty and introspection, which can lead to a fulfilling and transcendent experience.
In practice
In a personal development workshop to inspire participants to be true to themselves.
Childhood hunger in America is as much a paradox as it is a tragedy. Why, in the wealthiest country in the world, should hunger darken the lives and dreams of 12 million children and their families? I believe that, when Americans learn the facts and understand how their involvement can make a difference, banishing childhood hunger will be a national, local and personal priority.
While acting is what I do for a living, activism is what I do to stay alive.
I am still a journeyman actor and a peace and justice activist. I'm a pilgrim trying to win my freedom and serve as best I can in the time I have, with this gift I've been given.
When I reached adulthood, even now, I could afford to belong to a country club. But I could never belong to a private club because of my experience as a child, because it would isolate me from the whole of humanity.
Future generations are not going to ask us what political party were you in. They are going to ask what did you do about it, when you knew the glaciers were melting.
My recovery is the single greatest accomplishment of my life. Without that, the rest of my life would have fallen apart.
There's not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault.
Let's be honest - tracking down, rounding up, and deporting millions of people isn't realistic. Anyone who suggests otherwise isn't being straight with you. It's also not who we are as Americans.
A great nation is any mob of people which produces at least one honest man a century.
Well, I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life.
No more fear of hunger. A new kind of freedom. But what then ... what? What would my life be like on a daily basis? Most of it has been consumed with the acquisition of food. Take that away and I'm not really sure who I am, what my identity is. The idea scares me some.
One thing only do I know for certain and that is that man's judgments of value follow directly his wishes for happiness-that, accordingly, they are an attempt to support his illusions with arguments. [p.111]
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