Neale Donald Walsch Quotes

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

What we must try to be, of course, is ourselves and wholeheartedly. We must find out what we really are and what we really want.

Often we're recreating what we think we're supposed to be as human beings. What we've been told we're supposed to be, instead of who we authentically are. The key about the creation of full self-expression is to be authentically who you are, to project that.

Did you get so caught up in the preoccupancy of a relationship that you lost who you were or were busy in life or career that you, like Adam and Eve, got lost in the garden putting fig leaf after fig leaf title, relationship, this accolade, this saying over you that you forgot who you were and what's life's about? So getting back to the core of that and building life by design, that is authentic.

It is when I am working that the real me comes out - that is when I am the most real and honest.

I'm on this search trying to figure out exactly who I am and what I have to say to people.

Find out who you are and be that person. That's what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

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.

To know what that true self is without social pressure is to know your true nature.

I wanted to become me, totally me. The more me, the better. I instinctively knew this and I was right.

The world can't tell you who you are. You've just got to figure out who you are and be there, for better or worse.

Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it.

Find out who you are. And do it on purpose.

Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority.

I'm still trying to find out who Paula Cole is. I always am - and I always will be - my real, inside self, which has no name.

Never think you can separate who you are from what you're doing.

It's like, you can know you want to live your life by being yourself, but how do you actually do that? That can be a whole lifelong journey.

Don't try to be me. No one but me can be me. But you can be you. Look inside yourself and get to know who the real you is. And then be that person. The best version of you.

A lot of people go on this journey of finding themselves and then eventually realize that their true self wasn't on the outside but it's always been there.

Before, I had an idea of what I thought I needed to be, and I'm realizing more and more that being yourself is the best thing.

Let go of who you think you're supposed to be and embrace who you are.

Life is not a matter of creating a special name for ourselves, but of uncovering the name we have always had.

The final aim is not to know, but to be.... You've got to know yourself so that you can at last be yourself. "Be yourself" is the last motto.

Shake yourself free from the manikin you create out of a false interpretation of what you do and what you feel, and you'll at once see that the manikin you make yourself is nothing at all like what you really are or what you really can be!