Alice Walker Quotes

Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work.

When I listen to love, I am listening to my true nature. When I express love, I am expressing my true nature

Radical self-care is what we've been longing for, desperate for, our entire lives-friendship with our own hearts.

We don't realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme self who is eternally at peace.

Although our package of skin and bones looks very convincing, it is a mask, an illusion, disguising our true self, which has no limitations.

Realize thy Simple Self, Embrace thy Original Nature.

Love of self and love of life connects us with the prosperity of the Universe. Self-love creates self-expression and allows us to be creative in deeply fulfilling ways.

Be thou a true yogi. A yogi who understands that everything he's looking for is really inside himself. Learn to live more in the Self.

Don't abuse yourself or withhold self-love or self-care.

For me to be a saint means to be myself. Therefore the problem of sanctity and salvation is in fact the problem of finding out who I am and of discovering my true self.

We've all got an identity. You can't avoid it. It's what's left when you take everything else away.

Your private relationship with yourself is a spring that will feed every other factor.

Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger.

Love is who we are without our stories.

I want to embrace my full self, as natural as I can be.

This little separate self must die. Then we shall find that we are in the Real, and that Real is God, and He is our own true nature, and He is always in us and with us. Let us live in Him and stand in Him. It is the only joyful state of existence. Life on the plane of the Spirit is the only life, and let us all try to attain to this realization.

The spirit is the true self.

What we commonly call man, the eating, drinking, planting, counting man, does not, as we know him, represent himself, but misrepresents himself. Him we do not respect, but the soul, whose organ he is, would he let it appear through his action, would make our knees bend.

The heart and mind can find peace and harmony by contemplating the transcendental nature of the true self as supreme effulgent life.

After all, what is your personal identity? It is what you really are, your real self. None of us is what he thinks he is, or what other people think he is, still less what his passport says he is. And it is fortunate for most of us that we are mistaken. We do not generally know what is good for us. That is because, in St. Bernard's language, our true personality has been concealed under the 'disguise' of a false self, the ego, whom we tend to worship in place of God.

For all of us, love can be the natural state of our own being; naturally at peace, naturally connected, because this becomes the reflection of who we simply are.

Each aspect within us needs understanding and compassion. If we are unwilling to give it to ourselves how can we expect the world to give it to us?

Faith is in the soul. Belief is thought. Faith is so rich. Faith gives me my spiritual self.

Compassion isn't some kind of self-improvement project or ideal that we're trying to live up to. Having compassion starts and ends with having compassion for all those unwanted parts of ourselves, all those imperfections that we don't even want to look at.