John Burroughs Quotes

Begin within. If it shows up in your life, it's coming to tell you something about you that you're acting like you don't know. Something about yourself, or your relationship with God.

We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.

What you are looking for is within you

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.

The Secret is within you.

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

You take your problems to a god, but what you really need is for the god to take you to the inside of you.

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 think it's important to talk to your inner thing. The purpose is to go over the decisions that will affect my life and others. I pray that I don't make my decisions based on ego.

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

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

You are what you've been looking for. The answer is always in you alone. There is nothing in the external world. For the external world is an emanation of your own mind, your own thinking and your own imagination. You created this world.

You've got to find yourself first. Everything else'll follow.

I can tell you that what you're looking for is already inside you.

All you have to do is to pay attention; lessons always arrive when you are ready, and if you can read the signs, you will learn everything you need to know in order to take the next step

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.

Know thyself, for through thyself only thou canst know God.

All that I seek is already within me.

In life we often look to others for simple, but difficult answers, despite the fact that we have those answers ourselves.

The key is your thoughts and feelings, and you have been holding the key in your hand all of your life.

Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.

We search for everything we believe we don't have, not knowing that everything we are looking for is already inside us. We are born with it.

Certain springs are tapped only when we are alone. Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves; that firm strand which will be the indispensable center of a whole web of human relationships.