Daphne Zuniga Quotes

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

Meditation practice isn't about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It's about befriending who we are already.

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.

It only seems that there is something more important for you to do than to just quietly be yourself.

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.

You can know what's in your life when you know what's in your heart.

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

I was constantly looking for things outside of myself to make me feel good, and I think now that feeling can come from the inside, and that's why I meditate now twice a day.

You need to build an ability to just be yourself, and not be doing something.

It's like that perfection thing, trying to be that thing you're not. You have to feel that discomfort and not try to get rid of it. Accept that aspect and get into it. Acknowledge those feelings and let them be. You are who you are.

I realized I was never going to have any peace with myself unless I made an honest stab at trying to write.

Our wisdom is all mixed up with what we call our neurosis. Our brilliance, our juiciness, our spiciness, is all mixed up with our craziness and our confusion, and therefore it doesn’t do any good to try to get rid of our so-called negative aspects, because in that process we also get rid of our basic wonderfulness. We can lead our life so as to become more awake to who we are and what we’re doing rather than trying to improve or change or get rid of who we are or what we’re doing. The key is to wake up, to become more alert, more inquisitive and curious about ourselves.

I sometimes pray not for self-knowledge in general but for just so much self knowledge at the moment as I can bear and use at the moment; the little daily dose.

Once you get older, you get a little closer to yourself, intimate. I've always been very aware of that, more conscious of who I am, how I fit in the thing as opposed to trying to emulate someone else. Though, sometimes I try to emulate De Niro all the time, who is someone I could never be.

Peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life.

Don't ever become so preoccupied by who you want to be that you forget to be who you are.

Actually, when I look at my old notebooks, I think I have been a bit self-indulgent and have given myself too much time to meander in my discursive thoughts. I could have cut through sooner. Yet it is good to know about our terrible selves, not laud or criticize them, just acknowledge them. Then, out of this knowledge, we are better equipped to make a choice for beauty, kind consideration and clear truth. We make this choice with our feet firmly on the ground. We are not running wildly after beauty with fear at our backs.

The more intimately you come in contact with your own Being, the simpler things look and the easier they are to deal with.

I never had time to dream about being anyone else.

I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself.

What could I wish for the present but to take the greatest pleasure in being what I am?

Through a long and painful process, I've learned that happiness is an inside job - not based on anything or anyone in the outer material world. I've become a different and better person - not perfect, but still a work in progress.

This age thing is all up to you. It's like happiness is up to you. You just have to understand what it is before you get it.

Self-exploration is very painful, but unless you do that, you will never know who you are and who you want to be.

The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.