Thomas Merton Quotes

For me to be a saint means to be myself. Therefore the problem of sanctity and salvation is in fact the problem of finding out who I am and of discovering my true self.

Before you can be anything, you have to be yourself. That's the hardest thing to find.

The privilege of a lifetime is beingwho you are.The goal of the hero tripdown to the jewel pointis to find those levels in the psychethat open, open, openand finally open to the mystery of your Selfbeing Buddha consciousnessor the Christ.That's the journey.

It's much more interesting to embrace who you really are rather than waste energy pretending to be someone else.

You are meant to understand the nature of your inner self, and to manifest it outward.

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

Only you know who you were born to be and you need to be free to be that person.

Create yourself. Be yourself your poem.

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

My interest lies in my self-expression - what's inside of me - not what I'm in.

Everybody has their own way of tapping into their realness.

I don't know what else I would be if I wasn't me. I am not looking from the outside, looking back. I am who I am.

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

When you're true to who you are, amazing things happen.

I wanted to do things that I knew were going to be me.

There's got to be a voice deep within you that is untouched by definitions. And it is there that you become divinely who you are.

All my work is not personal - I've been trying to get away from that into the true self underneath all the tastes and things we think make up a self.

Before, I had an idea of what I thought I needed to be, and I'm realizing more and more that being yourself is the best thing.

My music just stands for being true to who you are.

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.

Anyone who knows who God made them to be will never try to be someone else.

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.

It is finally when you let go of what people expect you to be and people's perceptions of you that you're able to be the version of yourself that you're supposed to be - like in God's eyes. It doesn't matter if you're half crazy, or eccentric, or whatever it is - that you have to be true to who you were born to be.

It is part of me; I could definitely be that if I wanted to, I just choose not to. I mean, I am an actress at my core, and I think we're all a little crazy.

You cannot fail at being yourself. A cat doesn't try to be a tiger, and you shouldn't try to be something you aren't. You are a process, not a product. Your job is to discover what you are and create that creature. You still won't be perfect, but success isn't about perfection-it is about authenticity. You are a success if you are being your real, authentic self.