Heraclitus Quotes

Humility is the doorway 2 truth & clarity of objectives... it's the doorway 2 learning.

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. . . . God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

The first step in wisdom, as well as in morality, is to open the windows of the ego as wide as possible.

Self-knowledge is essential not only to writing, but to doing almost anything really well. It allows you to work through from a deep place - from the deep, dark corners of your subconscious mind.

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

Re-investing in one's own little moments of insight is very important.

We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.

One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.

I have always written only for myself - to clarify things, to clarify things with myself, to understand in an inner way what is actually happening.

I was one of those kids who was always seeking the truth, and I first looked for truth by reading novels. It took quite a long time for me to realize there are better ways.

The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other people's.

I noticed every time I spent a lot of time in the bathtub, I would just get fantastic realizations about myself, and they were so valuable and liberating.

Begin within. If it shows up in your life, it's coming to tell you something about you that you're acting like you don't know. Something about yourself, or your relationship with God.

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.

The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.

Seek always for the answer within. Be not influenced by those around you, by their thoughts or their words.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly - spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.

You take your problems to a god, but what you really need is for the god to take you to the inside of you.

I write in order to find out what I truly know and how I really feel about certain things. Writing requires me to go much deeper into my thoughts and memories than conversation does. Writing provides the solitude necessary to reflect on being in this world.

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

The starting point of discovering who you are, your gifts, your talents, your dreams, is being comfortable with yourself. Spend time alone. Write in a journal. Take long walks in the woods.

Well, I was passionately curious about what my body was doing, and when I got the lessons on how to meditate, it seemed really solid to me. It seemed real.

I try not to listen to the shoulds or coulds, and try to get beyond expectations, peer pressure, or trying to please - and just listen. I believe all the answers are ultimately within us.