D. H. Lawrence Quotes

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

I think and that is all that I am.

A psychoneurosis must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.

I want to know why we exist and what I can do while I'm existing. Basically. it's learning how to exist, wholely, consciously. Growing up on fast food and television shows, you can easily forget to exist. You can even be treated as if you don't.

Every character is asking: 'What's my place? Why am I here? I don't want the answer to be 'Just because.' You find your own purpose. Each finds the reason to be here and how to contribute.

Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning to man only when he steps on to the spiritual path, a path where negative emotions have no use.

Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.

You have to lose yourself to find yourself.

It's not about finding a home so much as finding yourself.

I think it's a part of us as human beings that we search outside of ourselves for meaning.

The only journey is the one within.

Life is about, every single day, getting up to manifest your truth.

I don't want to put meaning on what I do because I don't know what it is.

I believe that self-discovery is an ongoing thing.

My journey is not to be a star but to become as aware a person as possible.

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

I don’t think there’s any problem with advancing consciousness and becoming more and more aware of the struggle, not with the world, not to convince other people to do anything. The really interesting think is the struggle with the self, and the relation with the self, and there is no end to the improvement that can be done there, the discoveries that can be made.

I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.

Self-inquiry is the process and the goal also. 'I am' is the goal and the final reality. To hold to it with effort is self-inquiry. When spontaneous and natural it is realization.

To study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self.

We almost always live outside ourselves, and life itself is a continual dispersion. But it's towards ourselves that we tend, as towards a centre around which, like planets, we trace absurd and distant ellipses.

There's more to life than physical and material.

The searching for our selves is the most agonizing, isn't it? - and yet the most stimulating - and one simply cannot escape it.

We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.

When you're a confused 19-year-old filled with questions you can't even articulate and a kind of black rage that feeds at your heart from the moment you wake up in the morning, and you discover Marcus Aurelius' 'The Meditations,' that changes your life.