Cheri Huber Quotes

I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.

What is sought can never produce the seeking.

I feel like I'm always talking about myself, and I love not talking about myself.

The path to realizing our dreams is never smooth. Invariably we encounter bends, turns, detours, and roadblocks. Sometimes our frustrations make us want to give up the journey, but frustrations signal the need to pause for introspection and redirection. Frustrations are promptings from God to search our souls even more deeply to find our power and purpose, and to live it. Frustrations tell us that our thoughts and actions are not yet in harmony with our desires.

I have never known a greater miracle, or monster, than myself.

A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow as well as himself - and what is a man's shadow but his upright astonishment?

The more I try to explain myself, the less I understand myself.

I am never more myself than in my self-betrayals.

I know what I want and what I might gain, and yet, how profitless to know.

My abyss speaks, I have turned my ultimate depth inside out into the light.

I’m pleased by anything in myself that strikes me as not myself.

A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.

The world's most sensible person and the biggest idiot both stay within us. The worst part is, you can't even tell who is who.

What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there's another force from inside battling to make us something else.

To "know thyself" must mean to know the malignancy of one's own instincts and to know, as well, one's power to deflect it.

To keeping silence I resigned My friends would think I was a nut Turning water into wine Open doors would soon be shut So I went from day to day Though my life was in a rut 'Til I thought of what I'd say Which connection I should cut

I don't want to be lofty when I say this, but I don't know what a success is any more. I know how we define it, but that was a moment where I went, "Wait, who am I?" You could feel the business, in particular, kind of go "He's all right, let's go over here." I started to go, "Wait, I know why I love to do this." I think I got off track in why I love to do it.

And I wonder: Have I squandered my dogness? Have I forsaken my nature for my desires? Have I made a mistake by anticipating my future and shunning my present?

Man is a wonder to himself; he can neither govern nor know himself.

We are the mirror - As well as the face in it.

For years, copying other people, I tried to know myself. From within, I couldn't decide what to do. Unable to see, I heard my name being called. Then I walked outside.

You want to know what I truly look like? I'll help you out. Find yourself a mirror while I continue.

All knowledge leads to self-knowledge.

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. They will practice Indian yoga and all its exercises, observe a strict regimen of diet, learn the literature of the whole world - all because they cannot get on with themselves and have not the slightest faith that anything useful could ever come out of their own souls.

As I look back on my life, I see it as one long obstacle course with myself as the main obstacle.