Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Do not interrupt the flight of your soul; do not distress what is best in you; do not enfeeble your spirit with half wishes and half thoughts. Ask yourself and keep on asking until you find the answer, for one may have known something many times, acknowledged it; one may have willed something many times, attempted it - and yet, only the deep inner motion, only the heart's indescribable emotion, only that will convince you that what you have acknowledged belongs to you, that no power can take it from you - for only the truth that builds up is truth for you.

If you cannot find the truth within yourself, where else do you expect to find it?

The mystery at the center of 'Burial Rites' is not who killed whom on the night of March 13, 1828. It is the mystery each of us encounters: Can we every truly know another? Can we ever truly know ourselves?

Nothing in Scientology is true for you unless you have observed it and it is true according to your observation.

Acting is revealing the truth that is already within you and that reflects the character that you're doing.

Whenever you find tears in your eyes, especially unexpected tears, it is well to pay the closest attention. They are not only telling you something about the secret of who you are but, more often than not, God is speaking to you through them of the mystery of where you have come from and is summoning you to where, if your soul is to be saved, you should go to next.

Truth is within ourselves.

Sometimes I need to be a stranger to myself. Only then my soul can show me not what I want, but what I need to see.

There is no truth except the truth that exists within you. Everything else is what someone is telling you.

For me, the soul is connected to a higher being. It's not about religion; it's about connecting to your true self - your truth, the truth inside of you, the one you were born with.

All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.

Truth is what every man sees lurking at the bottom of his own soul, like the oyster shell housewives put in the kitchen kettle to collect the lime from the water. By and by each man's iridescent oyster shell of Truth becomes coated with the lime of prejudice and hearsay.

What is Truth? A difficult question; but I have solved it for myself by saying that it is what the "voice within" tells you. All that I can in true humility present to you is that Truth is not to be found by anybody who has not got an abundant sense of humility. If you would swim on the bosom of the ocean of Truth you must reduce yourself to zero.

You’re a wondering soul, looking for a peace that doesn’t exist. Lost you will be until you find the one inner truth. We can never hide from what we are. The only hope is to embrace it.’ (Old Seer)

If you listen to your soul you will know what is "best" for you, because what is best for you is what is true for you.

We must be our own authentically unique truth, and question who we are, what created us, and what processes within us are alien and externally created.

Depression, pain, and fear are gifts that say, "Sweetheart, take a look at your thinking in this moment. You're living in a story that isn't true for you." Living a lie is always stressful. And investigating a lie through The Work always leads you back to who you are. Who you are is not an option. You are love. It hurts to believe you're other than who you are, to live any story less than love.

That's what art is, shocking people. Sometimes shocking yourself.

We must be true inside, true to ourselves, before we can know a truth that is outside us. But we make ourselves true inside by manifesting the truth as we see it.

Writing is not lying, nor is it theft. It is a journey and search for transparency between one’s words and one’s soul.

With considerable soul searching, that to the utmost of my ability, I have let truth be the prejudice.

Art is a microscope which the artist fixes on the secrets of his soul, and shows to people these secrets which are common to all.

We meet no Stranger, but Ourself.

Do not wander far and wide but return into yourself. Deep within man there dwells the truth.