Aleister Crowley Quotes

It is not the question, what am I going to be when I grow up; you should ask the question, who am I going to be when I grow up.

I don't have dreams. How can I say it? I myself am a dream.

Coming to terms with our true natures and who we really are has always been a fascination to humans. I know it fascinates me.

I'm always thinking about what my identity is.

My whole life has been a search for finding myself, pretty much.

A lot of time when you're out injured is spent with internal reflection and kind of looking at yourself in the mirror and deciding who you want to be and where you fit in.

'M Train' is as close to knowing what I'm like as anything. I don't know exactly what the book is about. All and nothing, I suppose.

I've come to believe that whoever I am didn't start on December 14, 1946, and isn't going to end on whatever that mysterious date is in the future.

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.

Each character represented a trait that resides in me.

We're constantly morphing into different outward manifestations of ourselves. That's what I find curious about people.

The mantra that you're given in Transcendental Meditation you keep to yourself. The reason being, true happiness is not out there, true happiness lies within.

I think when you're put into a completely different situation and environment, you really see who you are. You're not affected by what's around you. You are who you are.

Soul is just that inner spirit. I use that inner spirit for whatever it is I do.

Everything we know by heart enriches us and helps us find ourselves. If it should get in the way of finding ourselves, it is because we have no personality.

Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life.

How shall the soul of a man be larger than the life he has lived?

I think understanding your life as a story is a really terrific way of kind of knowing where you are and knowing who you are.

You grow and you change, or at least you think you do, but you're kind of the same.

The thing that surprises me most is, you cannot change who you are.

On some level, I think we want our reading self to represent our best self.

Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.

I've always had real trouble knowing what my actual desires and goals are. I've just been dragged along by fate.

I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.

I believe there is a spirit within us, which we nurture based upon our efforts and what we bring to the world. But it doesn't come from the outside; it comes from the inside.