Alejandro Jodorowsky Quotes

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

He who knows himself is enlightened.

The delights of self-discovery are always available.

The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.

Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?

I think people will discover themselves in 'Ankahee.'

The feeling of self-discovery, for me, is perennial.

I believe that self-discovery is an ongoing thing.

Discover yourself, otherwise you have to depend on other people's opinions who don't know themselves.

To study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self.

If you want to maximize your total potential ... you have to know yourself first.

Self-knowledge is essential not only to writing, but to doing almost anything really well. It allows you to work through from a deep place - from the deep, dark corners of your subconscious mind.

The outlines of the needed psychology of becoming can be discovered by looking within ourselves; for it is knowledge of our own uniqueness that supplies the first, and probably the best, hints for acquiring orderly knowledge of others.

I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that's not easy.

What you are is a question only you can answer.

We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.

The real rub is finding that authentic self and it's not something that's going to come to you overnight.

Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

It took me a while to find myself.

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.

I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that you really must make the self.

You have to lose yourself to find yourself.

A psychologist said to me, there are only two important questions you have to ask yourself. What do you really feel? And, what do you really want? If you can answer those two, you probably can leave your neuroses behind you.

It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.