Gretchen Bleiler Quotes

The more you look into and understand yourself, the less judgmental you become towards others.

Everyone loses touch with their aspiration, and we need the heart to return to what we really care about. All of this is based on developing greater lovingkindness and compassion.

You need not search for the compassionate mind from outside. To know yourself, to know your nature, your mind will automatically be the compassionate one.

In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.

Be content with who you are and where you are, and do whatever you can do to bring to others such contentment, and joy, and understanding that you have managed to find yourself.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

You can know what's in your life when you know what's in your heart.

When you practice Buddhism, you have to always self-reflect, and you can't avoid your problems. That makes me understand human beings better. I feel that the more I do that in my own life, the more I can see how to play a character.

The starting point of discovering who you are, your gifts, your talents, your dreams, is being comfortable with yourself. Spend time alone. Write in a journal. Take long walks in the woods.

Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority.

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 truth is that you shouldn't match your insides to other people's outsides. Life is an inside job, and we just have to do our best.

In every person, you have a world of personalities and souls, a world of perspectives that you can share. You can get into anyone's shoes. You've got to be willing to stare at the ugliest part of yourself and deal with it.

I believe the arts are the best way to help people go on a journey of self-discovery toward their own compassion and empathy for humanity and themselves.

For me, everyone has good and bad qualities. I feel you must not always look at the bad qualities but also focus on the good ones, because we all have flaws.

There is no humanity before that which starts with yourself.

Most of your suffering comes from the lack of understanding of yourself and others.

Be the love you seek.

I was going through the hardest thing, also the greatest thing, for any human being to do; to accept that which is already within you, and around you.

You can't give it to others if you don't have it in yourself.

I think that with everything I've done, in the end, whoever the central character is, they would find a way to forgive, because that's really important to me.

I have no control over what people think, and if I were to spend energy on that, I would be a lifeless, deadened human being.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

Through a long and painful process, I've learned that happiness is an inside job - not based on anything or anyone in the outer material world. I've become a different and better person - not perfect, but still a work in progress.

The mantra that you're given in Transcendental Meditation you keep to yourself. The reason being, true happiness is not out there, true happiness lies within.