Brennan Manning Quotes

Having grown up so familiar with creating a pleasing facade, I now end up compelled to reveal things inside and say, 'Okay, now you really see me. Do you still love me?' And then it's never enough; it always has to be total self-revelation.

I want to show my true self, not how I want to be seen by others.

If you keep hiding your true self, your life becomes like slow death. Once you become free from the lies and the hiding of yourself, then life becomes vibrant again.

I guess the very first thing is to own your true self, and that includes achieving the point of not lying to others; the first step should be not lying to yourself.

Being yourself is one of the hardest thing because it's scary you always wonder whether you'll be accepted for who you really are.

Truly know thyself, and to thine own self be true.

I am never more myself than in my self-betrayals.

No matter where you go, you are what you are playa.

Jesus lets us be real with our life and our faith.

Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect. Be true to your own mind and conscience, your heart and your soul. So only can you be true to God.

It is fine to imitate a being you respect, but you cannot become that very being. Imitation is something one does to grow and develop. It is not something you use to deceive yourself. You absorb in yourself the things you think have some kind of value, but even if you try to find the meaning about your true self you will not find anything. Because those who cannot accept their real self always fail.

When we love God because we feel we should love Him, instead of genuinely loving out of our true selves, we have forgotten who God really is.

She used to say 'You can be whoever you want, even yourself'.... Yeah, I show up knowin exactly who I was and never leave as myself

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)

Ask yourself, 'what's more important - being real and being myself, or becoming successful? And ask the question knowing that you never actually have to choose between being real and being successful. You simply have to choose between being realand striving to be successful. Get the difference?

I won't be what I'm not. -Jing-mei

I feel the greatest gift we can give to anybody is the gift of our honest self.

People's weaker side is not necessarily their truer self.

Try to discover your true, honest, untheoretical self.

Your false self is always that which is passing away. Your true self doesn't go up or down, it's constant - it's a rock. Once you learn how to live there, what others say about you, your failures or successes - these don't send you on a roller coaster ride down or up. It's really the only way to peace. There's no other way to be peaceful except in the true self.

No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves. That's all.

The only aberration is denial of self.

The key to success is to be true to who you really are.

There is nothing of which we are more ashamed than of not being ourselves. And there is nothing which brings us greater joy and happiness than to think, feel, and say what is ours.