Barbara Hambly Quotes

It's okay to ask questions, but get the answers. So, where are the answers? Since the questions came from within you, guess where the answers are? Within you.

I want to learn from myself, want to be my student, want to get to know myself, the secret of Siddhartha.

In the Book of Life, The answers aren't in the back.

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

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.

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.

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.

Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It's already there.

Whatever you perceive, you always make a story with yourself as the main character, and that dictates your life. Then when you read 'The Four Agreements', you hear another voice beneath the story, the voice that comes from your integrity, your spirit.

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

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

I must find a truth that is true for me.

The next time you find yourself racing quickly down the street, know that you're not only running to your next appointment, you are literally running from contact with your truest feelings, deepest needs and most valuable insights.

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.

Knowing yourself is to be rooted in Being, instead of lost in your mind.

There is a way out, but the way out is really a way within.

Your life is a mirror. Life gives us not what we want. Life gives us who we are

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.

A book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us.

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.