Maria Montessori Quotes

I'm trying to learn how to tap into the power of my own being. I know it sounds corny.

Gently eliminating all obstacles to his own understanding, he constantly maintains his unconditional sincerity. His humility, perseverance, and adaptability evoke the response of the universe and fill him with divine light.

Becoming integrated and whole is the spiritual path. The body is your vehicle. Your job is to learn about yourself from your experiences and change yourself. This is spiritual growth.

The sacred duty of being an individual is to gradually learn how to live so as to awaken the eternal within you.

We are on a very rich emotional and physical journey on this planet.

Everything we know by heart enriches us and helps us find ourselves. If it should get in the way of finding ourselves, it is because we have no personality.

I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.

That's the way I try to live. I think it's the only way for human beings at this point in our evolution as souls, where everyone in their lifetime is going through stuff.

Carving out an identity for yourself is important so I'm trying to do that as well.

Study what thou art Whereof thou art a part What thou knowest of this art This is really what thou art. All that is without thee also is within.

As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self-understanding, and this is something that can't be taught.

What's in your soul is in your soul.

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Sometimes I attract roles that are necessary either for personal growth or enlightenment.

Everybody's a work in progress. I'm a work in progress. I mean, I've never arrived... I'm still learning all the time.

I would say that an understanding of man's intrinsic needs, and of the necessity to search for a climate in which those needs could be realized, is fundamental to the education of the designer.

The ego is there, but I'm learning to channel it.

I still feel like I have a lot of growing up to do 'til I find the voice. Everybody has their own voice and their own thing they want to say to the world.

When I wrote Living in the Light, I wanted to share about how I live my own life and to encourage people to tap into their own inner wisdom.

I've always been interested in how the individual comes to know and accept him or herself, which I think has been hard for me.

In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity.

A degree of self-awareness is extremely valuable... I hope I have that going forward.

Drama aids self-discovery like nothing else. In removing it from our schools, we remove the inestimable benefits of it from our society. No amount of studying oxbow lakes was ever going to help me emotionally through the death of my father.

Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.

The path to the inwardly enriched life is not hidden from the man or woman who longs to walk upon it.