Marcel Proust Quotes

It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better.

Whose work is it but your own to open your eyes? But indeed the business of the universe is to make such a fool out of you that you will know yourself for one, and begin to be wise.

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

Begin within. If it shows up in your life, it's coming to tell you something about you that you're acting like you don't know. Something about yourself, or your relationship with God.

The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.

The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.

When I wrote Living in the Light, I wanted to share about how I live my own life and to encourage people to tap into their own inner wisdom.

I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It's already there.

Whatever you perceive, you always make a story with yourself as the main character, and that dictates your life. Then when you read 'The Four Agreements', you hear another voice beneath the story, the voice that comes from your integrity, your spirit.

Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

Gail Sheehy tells us that "the delights of self-discovery are always available." All Fools' Day is the perfect day to engrave this wisdom in our hearts.

I want to learn from myself, want to be my student, want to get to know myself, the secret of Siddhartha.

To understand oneself requires patience, tolerant awareness; the self is a book of many volumes which you cannot read in a day, but when once you begin to read, you must read every word, every sentence, every paragraph for in them are the intimations of the whole. The beginning of it is the ending of it. If you know how to read, supreme wisdom is to be found.

I know of no other advice than this: Go within and scale the depths of your being from which your very life springs forth.

Discovering the truth about ourselves is a lifetime’s work, but it’s worth the effort.

What's the message in Metallica? There is no message, but if there was a message, it really should be look within yourself, don't listen to me, don't listen to James, don't listen to anybody, look within yourself for the answers.

The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

Within ourselves is not very far and yet it is so far that one's whole life is not always long enough to get there.

For me, my life is a journey.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

The real rub is finding that authentic self and it's not something that's going to come to you overnight.

I have not had time to reflect on my own truths in many years.

I felt that with 'In A Perfect World' I was still kind of finding myself - not just as a musician, but also in love and in life.