C. S. Lewis Quotes

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring.

The sacred duty of being an individual is to gradually learn how to live so as to awaken the eternal within you.

The outlines of the needed psychology of becoming can be discovered by looking within ourselves; for it is knowledge of our own uniqueness that supplies the first, and probably the best, hints for acquiring orderly knowledge of others.

What you are is a question only you can answer.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

I'm not really on a mission to tell anybody anything. I'd rather be figured out.

Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which I attain Being and my own self, not impartial thinking which studies a subject with indifference.

My interest lies in my self-expression - what's inside of me - not what I'm in.

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

It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better.

Working with the doctors is a fascinating two-way process. I am interested in what they suggest about why I'm the way I am. But if they could make me 'normal', I wouldn't want that. I've been like this for so long, it's what makes me .

People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.

I don't know what else I would be if I wasn't me. I am not looking from the outside, looking back. I am who I am.

The only journey is the one within.

If you have a trust in and an expectation of your own solitude, everything that you need to know will be revealed to you.

I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know.

I think my mystery, or any person's mystery, is the thing that makes them most interesting. I try to be as conscious as possible of keeping that alive.

All my work is not personal - I've been trying to get away from that into the true self underneath all the tastes and things we think make up a self.

In order to find yourself, who you really are, you got to be with yourself; you got to hang out with yourself.

The knowledge of self is the most important thing, because how are you going to know God if you don't know yourself? How are you going to know anything if you don't know yourself?

The only thing a master can teach is how to learn about yourself. There are no secrets. They are only techniques to waken yourself.

The true inner self must be drawn up like a jewel from the bottom of the sea, rescued from confusion, from indistinction, from immersion in the common, the nondescript, the trivial, the sordid, the evanescent.

Books simply help you to see what is already within your self. That's what enlightenment is all about.

Know thyself, for through thyself only thou canst know God.