Yousuf Karsh Quotes

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.

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

Self-awareness is value-free. It isn't scary. It doesn't imply that you will subject yourself to needless pain.

I used to blame my problems on other people. But my moment of clarity, if you want to call it that, came when I was looking in the mirror one day and just burst into tears. It wasn't just that I looked bad, it was that I knew my problem was me.

I would like to try harder to establish my thought and philosophy strongly and to go back to the universe with my love.

Enjoy the fashions, read the good articles, and when you feel threatened, turn your mental gaze inward, but keep your eyes on the road, or you won't know where you are going. Have a practice or discipline that lets you be in touch with your inner self, your soul.

Basically, I think that there are some characters that you can just allow the truth of your character as a human being in your real life to come through.

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

That's where it begins and ends for me and these songs were the ones that touched me the deepest. It was like I was laying hold of some part of me that I didn't even know was there until I let it out.

I'm not that tough; I'm not that smart. I need life telling me who I am, showing me my mind constantly. I wouldn't see it in a cave.

Self-awareness is not self-centeredness, and spirituality is not narcissism. 'Know thyself' is not a narcissistic pursuit.

My life day in and day out is accessing my emotions and bringing them to the forefront.

I have this belief that we are so vulnerable when we open ourselves up to literature. We're reminded of these real parts of ourselves.

When you first get sober, you feel like a superhero. You feel real emotion because you've been suppressing it forever. It's so much easier to navigate what's important.

I feel like my music at least allows me to release the other side of me, a more vulnerable and sensitive side.

With work and life, your true depth can become an alien thing to you. Your gut feelings, your instincts become buried.

While the majority of my career has relied on my aesthetics and how I look, I worked hard at keeping a spiritual connection with what was most important, what is inside me.

When you're writing, I think a big part of writing comes out of an attempt to understand yourself. You're dealing with emotions and thoughts that are native to you. So that probably winds up in your characters.

Try to find your deepest issue in every confusion, and abide by that.

The self is too small an object for perpetual enthusiasm.

It is not the events in our life that define our character, but how we deal with them.

The greatest evils, are from within us; and from ourselves also we must look for the greatest good.

There is nothing harder to come by than detachment and solitude; and nothing more important.

Meditation is not to escape from society, but to come back to ourselves and see what is going on. Once there is seeing, there must be acting. With mindfulness, we know what to do and what not to do to help.

My diary seems to keep me whole.