Antonio Machado Quotes

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

When you look in the mirror what do you see? Do you see the real you, or what you have been conditioned to believe is you?

We must be trying to learn who we really are rather than trying to tell ourselves who we should be.

Whatever mistake you have made about who you are is temporary. Your true identity has remained untouched. You have never sinned against it or affected it in any way except to lose touch with it.

Access to your true essence will give you insight into the mirror of relationship, because all relationship is a reflection of your relationship with yourself.

The only thing you can lose is ... your connection to who-you-are.

The original, shimmering self gets buried so deep that most of us end up hardly living out of it at all. Instead we live out all the other selves, which we are constantly putting on and taking off like coats and hats against the world’s weather

Getting the pretty back is about getting back in touch with your essential self: the part of you that knows what you really want.

Love will come find you, just to remind you of who you are.

Try to discover your true, honest, untheoretical self.

Your true image is not something to get; it is a reality to discover.

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

I wake up and play a different person every day. Playing all these different characters and trying to figure out who your true authentic self is at the core of that as you're playing all these different roles, and man, that self-awareness starts to come into effect. And you start to see who you really are.

Find out who you are and be that person. That's what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come.

To know what that true self is without social pressure is to know your true nature.

If there's a common thread to my books, it is that each involves an individual's journey. The individual must stay true to themselves.

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.

I think when you live your destiny, you allow yourself to get in touch with your inner essence. What's difficult in life is the economic and social requirements that distract us from bringing forth our true passion.

Knowing yourself is to be rooted in Being, instead of lost in your mind.

But don't forget who you really are. And I'm not talking about your so-called real name. All names are made up by someone else, even the one your parents gave you. You know who you really are. When you're alone at night, looking up at the stars, or maybe lying in your bed in total darkness, you know that nameless person inside you...Your muscles will toughen. So will your heart and soul. That's necessary for survival. But don't lose touch with that person deep inside you, or else you won't really have survived at all.

It is individuality which is the original and eternal within man; personality doesn't matter so much. To pursue the education and development of this individuality as one's highest vocation would be a divine egoism.

The only service you can do for anyone is to remind them of their true nature.

You know the name you were given, you do not know the name that you have