Bernard Berenson Quotes

The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.

The process of reclaiming the self is one of reconciliation with meaning.

A lot of people come to L.A. looking for something. What I came here for, I realize now, is to be okay with myself.

The well of your incompleteness runs deep, but make the effort to look away from yourself and to look toward Him.

If you wish to shine like day, burn up the night of self-existence. Dissolve in the Being who is everything.

I never had time to dream about being anyone else.

It's easy to forget who you are.

I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that's not easy.

So I'm OK with myself, with history, my work, who I am and who I was.

The mantra that you're given in Transcendental Meditation you keep to yourself. The reason being, true happiness is not out there, true happiness lies within.

What you are comes to you.

He who knows himself is enlightened.

Happiness comes from the full understanding of your own being.

Man shall find his anchorage in self-recognition.

The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

You can run, run, run away from a lot of things in life, but you can't run away from yourself. And the key to happiness is to understand and accept who you are.

We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.

Once you figure out who you are and what you love about yourself, I think it all kinda falls into place.

What's in your soul is in your soul.

Maybe one day I can have a reunion with myself.

I really do feel like I know myself, and I'm so happy to be by myself and I'm so happy to be with other people; I just know myself really, really well, and I think that is an amazing thing. I think a lot of people don't know themselves that well.

Your life is meant for you to understand and process, not to make anyone else happy.

You have to lose yourself to find yourself.