Galen Rowell Quotes

To develop our real selves, we need time alone for thought and meditation. To be always giving out and never pumping in, the well runs dry.

Life is a constant challenge to know oneself.

We can find Nature outside us only if we have first learned to know her within us. What is akin to her within us must be our guide. This marks out our path of enquiry.

Facts make you face stuff about yourself you'd rather not see.

Spirituality is not about looking up or down - it's about looking inward.

I was quite a different child, I felt isolated. In time, that level of being with yourself crystallises who you are, and you can see what other people are without being blinded by what they want from you.

We can't see ourselves very clearly. This I learned as a songwriter. I'm forever trying to figure out what my own truth is.

It's very important for people to know what gives them meaning. But it's hard for people to figure out if you're not connecting with yourself and taking the time to just be introspective and daydream.

The true cure for self-righteousness is self-knowledge.

What you are looking for is within you

If you do not go within, you without

I see the ups and downs. I see the mistakes I've made. I see a funny person. I see a serious person. I see a diamond. I see the good times. I see the bad times. And I see knowledge of self. I see knowledge of self. I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me.

To successfully open the door to heightened awareness, we must open it inward.

The knowledge of self is the most important thing, because how are you going to know God if you don't know yourself? How are you going to know anything if you don't know yourself?

It is not only useless, it is harmful, to believe in oneself until one truly knows oneself. And to know oneself means to accept our moments of insanity, of eccentricity, of childishness and blindness.

If one cannot get along without a mirror, even in shaving oneself, how can one reconstruct oneself or one's life, without seeing oneself in the "mirror" of literature?

When I look in the mirror, I see an ever-unfolding process.

Always search for your innermost nature in those you are with, as rose oil imbibes from roses.

Identify your painful thought, question it, and wake yourself up. No one else can.

The Artist is no other than he who unlearns what he has learned, in order to know himself.

Solitude is the salt of personhood. It brings out the authentic flavor of every experience.

Gently resist the temptation to chase your dreams into the world; pursue them in your heart until they disappear into the Self, and leave them there.

How odd, to suddenly glimpse a facet of me I didn't know existed. I guess it really isn't all that unusual to surprise oneself with an ugly bit of ego.

Self knowledge is always bad news.

All good work requires self-revelation.