Tom Hopkins Quotes

Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work.

Enlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity.

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 want to stop transforming and just start being.

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 run, run, run away from a lot of things in life, but you can't run away from yourself. And the key to happiness is to understand and accept who you are.

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

What's in your soul is in your soul.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

Self-Realization Fellowship seemed like training. It was the training ground for finding a sense of peace in myself. Because that's my job. It's no one else's.

I want to stay true to who I am by trying to be in the moment.

The only journey is the one within.

I feel pretty comfortable with who I am. After a while, if you're not, it's like, what are you hoping for?

Once you really know yourself, can't nobody tell you nothing about you.

I've finally stopped running away from myself. Who else is there better to be?

Let go of who you think you're supposed to be and embrace who you are.

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

I am never more myself than in my self-betrayals.

What keeps me going is that quest for just being able to be present and be myself. Not for people, but for me.

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

Realize thy Simple Self, Embrace thy Original Nature.

I never had time to dream about being anyone else.

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.

The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.