Ed Kowalczyk Quotes

I dislike the word 'self-help.' Self-awareness, yes, but not self-help.

That's the way I try to live. I think it's the only way for human beings at this point in our evolution as souls, where everyone in their lifetime is going through stuff.

A psychologist said to me, there are only two important questions you have to ask yourself. What do you really feel? And, what do you really want? If you can answer those two, you probably can leave your neuroses behind you.

I'm on a constant path of self-discovery and change. I'm trying to become a better person, a nicer person. I love therapy - it's brilliant.

You learn to accept your own reality.

I believe in nurturing the inner world.

Love yourself. KNOW thyself. And be mindful of your thoughts.

I sometimes pray not for self-knowledge in general but for just so much self knowledge at the moment as I can bear and use at the moment; the little daily dose.

Self-knowledge makes me happy.

You think you can go into all those auditions not knowing who you are? The work came after I found my sense of self - when I wasn't so manic and desperate.

I ran into an extraordinary doctor. He got up inside my head and figured out how my brain processed things, what my core values were, what my inner dialogue was.

You don't need the iPhone: you have the most exquisite apparatus in the known universe sitting right in your head - the most complex organization of matter in the entire universe. And here are we, feeling a little depressed, feeling like we're not getting where we need to be, when really you might be exactly where you need to be.

We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.

My demons, inner strengths and physical battles have guided me through life.

Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

You can't heal what you don't acknowledge.

It's incredibly liberating to spend an hour talking to someone and not caring about what you sound like. It's about understanding myself. Sometimes I'll speak to my therapist for an hour a day. It's become part of my routine.

I once had a dream and this one familiar god, who was probably one of my master teachers, said, 'You should not worry about being on the charts. That's not important.'

I went to a psychotherapist for a year and a bit, and it was fantastic. I went in with a very clear question: I couldn't work out why I behaved in a certain way in certain situations, and I got that answered.

Man shall find his anchorage in self-recognition.

The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

The constant monitoring of our emotional landscape and personal interactions is a bizarre concept. But it is one that could help many people.

I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.

It's very healthy to be aware of your ego.