Karen Salmansohn Quotes

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

What's the message in Metallica? There is no message, but if there was a message, it really should be look within yourself, don't listen to me, don't listen to James, don't listen to anybody, look within yourself for the answers.

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

I look for characters that speak to something in me.

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.

In the process of telling the truth about what you feel or what you see, each of us has to get in touch with himself or herself in a really deep, serious way.

That inner voice has both gentleness and clarity. So to get to authenticity, you really keep going down to the bone, to the honesty, and the inevitability of something.

At a point in every person's life, one has to look deeply into the mirror of one's soul and decide one's unique truth in the world, not as we may want to see it or hope to see it, but as it is.

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

I try not to listen to the shoulds or coulds, and try to get beyond expectations, peer pressure, or trying to please - and just listen. I believe all the answers are ultimately within us.

The key is within each of us. No instructions come with it.

Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.

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

Knowing yourself has to always come from within. The outside can inspire or guide you, but knowing has to come from within you.

Dreams really tell you about yourself more than anything else in this world could ever tell you.

Once you go inside and weed through the muck, you will find the real beauty, the truth about yourself.

Re-investing in one's own little moments of insight is very important.

I am deeply in tune with my heart and core, and it's made me a better writer, artist, and most of all woman. It's made me more myself.

You can't know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.

I knew I had a lot to say. Not politically - politics have always confused me - but perhaps spiritually.

Devotion begins at home, inside your own awareness.

Authenticity is the ability to listen to what nature tells us. Listening isn't the same thing as never making a mistake, but the important thing is to learn.

Patience doesn't mean making a pact with the devil of denial, ignoring our emotions and aspirations. It means being wholeheartedly engaged in the process that's unfolding, rather than ripping open a budding flower or demanding a caterpillar hurry up and get that chrysalis stage over with.

If you cannot find the truth within yourself, where else do you expect to find it?

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.