Laura van den Berg Quotes

As Carl Jung put it, "In each of us there is another whom we do not know." As Pink Floyd sang, "There's someone in my head, but it's not me."

Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.

I don't think people change. I think they definitely mature. But I think the essence of what I am today is the same as when I was five years old. It's just maturity. I've become a healthier, fuller expression of that essence.

All my work is not personal - I've been trying to get away from that into the true self underneath all the tastes and things we think make up a self.

Try to figure out who you really are and not who you want other people to think you are.

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

We must be trying to learn who we really are rather than trying to tell ourselves who we should be.

After all, what is your personal identity? It is what you really are, your real self. None of us is what he thinks he is, or what other people think he is, still less what his passport says he is. And it is fortunate for most of us that we are mistaken. We do not generally know what is good for us. That is because, in St. Bernard's language, our true personality has been concealed under the 'disguise' of a false self, the ego, whom we tend to worship in place of God.

Maybe I had a 'secret identity,' but then when you think about it, don't we all? A part of ourselves very few people ever get to see. The part we think of as 'me.' The part that deals with the big stuff. Makes the real choices. The part everything else is a reflection of.

It is not necessarily at home that we best encounter our true selves. The furniture insists that we cannot change because it does not; the domestic setting keeps us tethered to the person we are in ordinary life, who may not be who we essentially are.

The authentic self is the soul made visible.

What you think about when you don't have to think, shows what you really are.

Ego is to the true self what a flashlight is to a spotlight.

As I grow older, I feel like my authentic self has been able to shine through more and more, and people can see that.

You don't have a soul; you are your own soul. In other words, you are not this book, your social security card, your body, or your mind. You are you.

I realized that... at the core of who we are, we're these perfect beings - and we're not taught that.

It is hard to find the soul of Mick Jagger. It is very hidden. I think his true personality has receded so far behind the facade that he can no longer find the real person himself.

There has always been a softer side to Sushmita Sen. You might never see it, but there is one. And you will never see the 'real' Sushmita on screen.

And the question is, which one is really "you.

The journal and Gansey were clearly long acquainted, and he wanted her to know. This is me. The real me.

And the idea of ourselves is our escape from the fact what we really are.

Anyone who knows who God made them to be will never try to be someone else.

The only service you can do for anyone is to remind them of their true nature.

The Truth is inseparable from who you are. Yes, you are the Truth. If you look for it elsewhere, you will be deceived every time.