Neale Donald Walsch Quotes

To know nothing about yourself is to live. To know yourself badly is to think.

You cannot know, and become, that which you are, in the absence of that which you are not, as I have already explained to you.

We find ourselves only by looking to what we’re not.

I want to see, that's all. This is my life. I want to see.

I am a collection of thoughts and memories and likes and dislikes. I am the things that have happened to me and the sum of everything I've ever done. I am the clothes I wear on my back. I am every place and every person and every object I have ever come across. I am a bag of bones stuck to a very large rock spinning a thousand miles an hour.

Tell me who I am. (29)

Not to know me argues yourselves unknown.

I tell myself that I know you, and then when I think about it, I realize that I don't.

I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer.

I've spent my life cultivating knowledge of myself. But the more I know myself, the more utterly mysterious I become.

What you are aware of you are in control of; what you are not aware of is in control of you.

We read books to find out who we are.

Previously, even in Egypt, men had not learned to see straight. They fumbled in the dark, and didn't quite know where they were, or what they were. Like men in a dark room, they only felt their existence surging in the darkness of other creatures. We, however, have learned to see ourselves for what we are, as the sun sees us. The Kodak bears witness.

You know more about me than I do about myself, that's probably true.

Each character represented a trait that resides in me.

We have to really educate ourselves in a way about who we are, what our real identity is.

If you asked me for my New Year Resolution, it would be to find out who I am.

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing.

One of my problems is to find the self.

I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.

I discovered myself!

I have faced up to what I am.

At the typewriter you find out who you are.