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.
Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.
In a rabbit-fear I may hurl myself under the wheels of the car because the lights terrify me, and under the dark blind death of wheels I will be safe. I am very tired, very banal, very confused. I do not know who I am tonight. I wanted to walk until I dropped and not complete the inevitable circle of coming home.
Getting well is not the only goal. Even more important is learning to live without fear, to be at peace with life and ultimately death.
Do we open ourselves to the Holy Spirit, so as to be an active part of our communities, or do we close in on ourselves, saying 'I have so many things to do, that's not my job'?
The social intuitionist model offers an explanation of why moral and political arguments are so frustrating: because moral reasons are the tail wagged by the intuitive dog. A dog’s tail wags to communicate. You can’t make a dog happy by forcibly wagging its tail. And you can’t change people’s minds by utterly refuting their arguments.
There cannot be perfect civilization until Man realizes that the rights of every living creature are as sacred as his own.
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