You create a path of your own by looking within yourself and listening to your soul, cultivating your own ways of experiencing the sacred and then practicing it. Practicing until you make it a song that sings you.
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I came to believe that my true identity goes beyond the outer roles I play. It transcends the ego. I came to understand that there is an Authentic 'I' within - an 'I Am,' or divine spark within the soul.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote illustrates the distinction between one's external identity and the deeper, intrinsic self that exists beyond societal roles and ego.
In this quote, Sue Monk Kidd expresses the idea that our true identity is not merely defined by the roles we fulfill in life, such as job titles or social positions, but rather by a deeper, more authentic self that transcends these limitations. This 'Authentic I' reflects our inner essence or divine spark, suggesting that understanding and reconnecting with this true self can lead to a more fulfilling and meaningful existence.
Themes
IdentityAuthentic SelfEgoDivine SparkSoul
In practice
Example use cases
In a workshop on personal development, this quote can inspire participants to explore their true selves.
More from Sue Monk Kidd
All quotes →Finally, I began to write about becoming an older woman and the trepidation it stirred. The small, telling "betrayals" of my body. The stalled, eerie stillness in my writing, accompanied by an ache for some unlived destiny. I wrote about the raw, unsettled feelings coursing through me, the need to divest and relocate, the urge to radically simplify and distill life into a new, unknown meaning.
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I watched him, filled with tenderness and ache, wondering what it was that connected us. Was it the wounded places down inside people that sought each other out, that bred a kind of love between them?
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I felt amazed at the choosing one had to do, over and over a million times daily--choosing love, then choosing it again...how loving and being in love could be so different.
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Where do you come from?"...This is the number one most-asked question in all of South Carolina. We want to know if you are one of us, if your cousin knows our cousin, if your little sister went to school with our big brother, if you go to the same Baptist church as our ex-boss. We are looking for ways our stories fit together.
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Back in the autumn I had awakened to a growing darkness and cacophony, as if something in the depths were crying out. A whole chorus of voices. Orphaned voices. They seemed to speak for all the unlived parts of me, and they came with a force and dazzle that I couldn't contain. They seemed to explode the boundaries of my existence. I know now that they were the clamor of a new self struggling to be born.
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