Simone Weil Quotes

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

I have not had time to reflect on my own truths in many years.

Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

One of my problems is to find the self.

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

Nothing said to us, nothing we can learn from others, reaches us so deep as that which we find in ourselves.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

We must at times search our own souls and discover what we really are. Our real character, much as we would wish, cannot be hidden.

It is not only useless, it is harmful, to believe in oneself until one truly knows oneself. And to know oneself means to accept our moments of insanity, of eccentricity, of childishness and blindness.

All knowledge, is ultimately, self knowledge.

The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.

Meditation is simply a strange surgical method that cuts you away from all that is not yours and saves only that which is your authentic being.

It's okay to ask questions, but get the answers. So, where are the answers? Since the questions came from within you, guess where the answers are? Within you.

We all believe that we are a certain kind of person, but we never know until we do something that proves otherwise, or until we die.

I want to learn from myself, want to be my student, want to get to know myself, the secret of Siddhartha.

Find your true self. The old question, asked in many ages, "Who am I?" Once you figure out who am I, and you know who am I, then you have that knowledge of self.

Truth is not to be found outside. No teacher, no scripture can give it to you. It is inside you and if you wish to attain it, seek your own company. Be with yourself.

To understand oneself requires patience, tolerant awareness; the self is a book of many volumes which you cannot read in a day, but when once you begin to read, you must read every word, every sentence, every paragraph for in them are the intimations of the whole. The beginning of it is the ending of it. If you know how to read, supreme wisdom is to be found.

I shall strip away layer after layer of grime -- the toffee-colored varnish and caked soot left by a lifetime of dissembling -- until I come to the very thing itself and know it for what it is. My soul. My self.

Every desire of yours that comes true brings you a little closer to seeing that what you wanted exists nowhere but in you.

We are not strangers to ourselves, we only try to be.

Books simply help you to see what is already within your self. That's what enlightenment is all about.

Why do you want to read others' books when there is the book of yourself?

Who is it that can tell me who I am?