Neale Donald Walsch Quotes

You cannot experience yourself as what you are until you've encountered what you are not

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

Life, is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming.

You find out who you are by figuring out who and what you're not

Everything I'm not makes me everything I am

To accept duality is to earn identity.

There's a part of you that you can get a hold of, and there's a part of you that you can never get a hold of, and those are opposite things. Who are you? Which one are you? You are combinations of opposites.

I am the shore and the ocean, awaiting myself on both sides.

Until we see what we are, we cannot take steps to become what we should be.

Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.

When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

All of us, at some moment, have had a vision of our existence as something unique, untransferable and very precious. This revelation almost always takes place during adolescence.

I think Zippy is part of me, but I'm not Zippy.

Every character is asking: 'What's my place? Why am I here? I don't want the answer to be 'Just because.' You find your own purpose. Each finds the reason to be here and how to contribute.

I want to know who you are as a person, and then I want you to develop as a whole human being.

It's not to late to... ask yourself if you really are the person you want to be, and if not, who you do want to be.

Everything we know by heart enriches us and helps us find ourselves. If it should get in the way of finding ourselves, it is because we have no personality.

I want to show people that there's a side of myself other than just the outrageous comedian.

I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.

Transcendence constitutes selfhood.

I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.

I am turning into the person I knew I would.

I have always felt that I am the sum total of my parts.

I think that we're all continually searching for who we are, and that's ever-evolving and changing.