George A. Sheehan Quotes

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

If I could know me, I could know the universe.

One of the things that I've come to understand is that as I talk a lot about Picard, what I find is that I'm talking about myself.

The act of writing is the act of discovering what you believe.

I want to learn from myself, want to be my student, want to get to know myself, the secret of Siddhartha.

Write about what you know, and what do you know better than your own secrets?

A person's strength is to know their weaknesses.

A book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us.

I write to discover what I think.

In one deep sense, novels are concealed autobiography. I don't mean that you are telling facts about yourself, but you are trying to find out what you really think or who you are.

Why do you want to read others' books when there is the book of yourself?

Was it fair to say I didn't know the full state of my soul?

It is not in Montaigne, but in myself, that I find all that I see in him.

He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public. That statement only is fit to be made public, which you have come at in attempting to satisfy your own curiosity.

If you mean to know yourself, interline such of these aphorisms as affect you agreeably in reading, and set a mark to such as left a sense of uneasiness with you; and then show your copy to whom you please.

Self-awareness involves deep personal honesty. It comes from asking and answering hard questions.

The longest journey is the journey inward.

Through my own observations. I am convinced that an absolutely honest and direct inquiry into oneself will lead to understanding.

But what do I have? The things I'm told and the things I tell, that's all. And as far as I know, that never yet made anyone fly.

One of the other reasons for writing this book [My Beloved World] was to hold on to the person you first met. More of the world knows about me now and follows me in a way that never happened before. I didn't want me, the inside of me, to change. Because I liked Sonia, the Sonia who has been. So another reason for writing the book was to hold on to that - whatever the best in Sonia was, to try to capture it.

I know a lot and have written a lot and have thought a lot about motherhood.

Oh! that you could turn your eyes towards the napes of your necks, and make but an interior survey of your good selves.

The more a man knows about himself in relation to every kind of experience, the greater his chance of suddenly, one fine morning, realizing who in fact he is.

After all, all knowledge simply means self-knowledge.

Come to the Root of the Root of your Self