Quotes on Finding Your Path

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.

Today you are you! That is truer than true!

When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.

Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.

I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.

Man is almost mad-mad because he is seeking something which he has already got; mad because he's not aware of who he is; mad because he hopes, desires and then ultimately, feels frustrated. Frustration is bound to be there because you cannot find yourself by seeking; you are already there. The seeking has to stop, the search has to drop.

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.

If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it's not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path.

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

You cannot fully understand your own life without knowing and thinking beyond your life, your own neighborhood, and even your own nation.

Every choice before you represents the universe inviting you to remember who you are and what you want.

Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones.

That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.