Cedric Bixler-Zavala Quotes

You grow and you change, or at least you think you do, but you're kind of the same.

Being down makes you think who you are.

It's important that a person doesn't lose track of himself.

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.

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

But I think that your entire life is a process of sorting out some of those early messages that you got.

In the last couple of years I've been facing down a lot of the demons of the past and trying to find out, who I am, It's something I think I'll be doing for the rest of my life.

You have to know who you are, if you don't you have nightmares.

Checking your ego, abandoning it, letting it go, is a huge part of recovery from addiction.

The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.

Anybody can get lost in themselves.

It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.

I wondered to what extent people remained the same as they'd been when very young; if one peeled back the layers of living one would come to the know child.

Instead of looking outside of ourselves and counting potential enemies, fasting summons us to turn our glance inward, and to take the measure of our greatest challenge: the self, the ego, in our own eyes and as others see us.

Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along.

Once you get in a position where your rent is taken care of and you do have a job, you really get to deal with yourself and really become one with yourself. And you wake to your mind every day. That's your best friend and your worst enemy - your own brain.

Coming to terms with our true natures and who we really are has always been a fascination to humans. I know it fascinates me.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

I think everyone is born 100 percent ego, and after that it's just adjustment.

Why am I the way I am? Well, I used to be different.

I get weary of reading about rebirths because we're all growing all the time and it diminishes the life you've lived if you say 'I'm a new person.'

In the early 2000s, I was going through a lot. I didn't have my head screwed on right. Where I was at as a man, I was still growing up.

I discovered myself!

I got a lot of paradoxes in my life. I guess I'm a real confused person, but there are some focused parts to my life now, and I'm slowly trying to put all the pieces back together.

I don't know what else I would be if I wasn't me. I am not looking from the outside, looking back. I am who I am.