Genesis P-Orridge Quotes

I love philosophy and spirituality and leveling-up books and science books.

To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject.

Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.

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

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

I've been in therapy. I know enough about myself now to know that I really don't need to know anymore.

Forty is better than 30. I have a better understanding of who I am, what makes me tick, what's okay and not okay.

A lot of what I've been learning in the last two years is due to therapy - about my sexuality, why things go wrong, why relationships haven't worked. It isn't anything to do with anybody else; it's to do with me.

A degree of self-awareness is extremely valuable... I hope I have that going forward.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.

There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

The self is just our operation center, our consciousness, our moral compass. So, if we want to act more effectively in the world, we have to get to know ourselves better.

For me, it really is about the self-acceptance... the more time that I spend really accepting and allowing myself to be exactly where I am, the faster it is I move towards what I wanna be doing.

The more you can be self-aware and honest about yourself, the more you can cultivate that in other people.

Especially since I started studying acting, I feel like I'm always super-aware of my emotions and my feelings and what's going on with me at every moment. I definitely think I wasn't very present prior to that.

The genesis of the Thinking Talent app came from wanting to create a way to scale self-discovery with a framework that we, personally, inside of the company, have used really successfully.

What I use when I'm acting comes from what I learn about myself.

With age and experience, I started to know myself better.

I believe that self-discovery is an ongoing thing.

With time, you do get mature.

I think when I was younger, I was struggling to kind of differentiating love from a personal love or a tennis love or whatever else. There was time that I wasn't sure how to deal with both things in the same time. But you learn. I guess we grow. I mean, I don't want to say I've learned from my mistakes, but I've learned myself a little bit better.

Self-awareness is something that we actually actively avoid.

The only way to do something truly important every day is to seek to understand yourself every day.

I don’t think there’s any problem with advancing consciousness and becoming more and more aware of the struggle, not with the world, not to convince other people to do anything. The really interesting think is the struggle with the self, and the relation with the self, and there is no end to the improvement that can be done there, the discoveries that can be made.