Rza Quotes

The greatest discovery in life is self-discovery. Until you find yourself you will always be someone else. Become yourself.

The real rub is finding that authentic self and it's not something that's going to come to you overnight.

Truly know thyself, and to thine own self be true.

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority.

I'm still trying to find out who Paula Cole is. I always am - and I always will be - my real, inside self, which has no name.

A lot of people go on this journey of finding themselves and then eventually realize that their true self wasn't on the outside but it's always been there.

You can spend time self-identifying and figuring out what you are on that, but at some point, you just want to be who you are and not walk around telling people.

Hell, in my opinion, is never finding your true self and never living your own life or knowing who you are.

What we seek is what we are.

No matter where you go, you are what you are playa.

I've tried to become someone else for a while, only to discover that he, too, was me.

The most dangerous thing you can do is know who you are.

The self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself, within yourself.

The search for total knowledge starts from the Self and finds its fulfillment in coming back to the Self, finding that everything is the expression of the Self - everything is the expression of my own Self.

Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am - and what I need - is something I have to find out myself.

Come to the Root of the Root of your Self

You have to self-reflect. If you forget who you actually are, then what's the use of even looking in the mirror.

Identity would seem to be the garment with which one covers the nakedness of the self: in which case, it is best that the garment be loose, a little like the robes of the desert, through which one's nakedness can always be felt, and, sometimes, discerned. This trust in one's nakedness is all that gives one the power to change one's robes.

Some people spend their whole lives looking for themselves, yet our self is the one thing we surely cannot lose (how like a cheap philosopher I am become, staying in this benighted place). From the moment we are conceived it is the pattern in our blood and our bones are printed through with it like sticks of seaside rock. Nora, on the other hand, says that she’s surprised anyone knows who they are, considering that every cell and molecule in our bodies has been replaced many times over since we were born.

It's easy to forget who you are.

I have to live in the truth that this is who I am. That's what I need to focus on.

I can be Erykah the human being more than the celebrity.

I've realized that Evanescence is who I am.

Ego is to the true self what a flashlight is to a spotlight.