Johannes Tauler Quotes

There is no need to sally forth, for it remains true that those things which make us human are, curiously enough, always close at hand. Resolve, then, that on this very ground, with small flags waving and tiny blasts on tiny trumpets, we shall meet the enemy, and not only may he be ours, he may be us.

The only one who can beat me is me.

I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.

It's ironic, but until you can free those final monsters within the jungle of yourself, your life, your soul is up for grabs.

The theme of 'Karate' is about fighting yourself to break down barriers and move forward.

It takes more courage to examine the dark corners of your own soul than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.

The ordinary man puts up a struggle against all that is not himself, whereas it is against himself, in a limited but all-essential field, that the artist has to battle.

The bigger confrontation is the one an individual has with itself.

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.

Sometimes you have to confront your demons and sometimes even let them loose to genuinely find a place where you can gain some understanding.

The best thing about golf is ultimately what it teaches you about yourself. And the worst thing is how freakin' nervous it can make you feel.

Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.

Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at.

I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one for the world.

I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.

Once you get in a position where your rent is taken care of and you do have a job, you really get to deal with yourself and really become one with yourself. And you wake to your mind every day. That's your best friend and your worst enemy - your own brain.

One learns in life to keep silent and draw one's own confusions.

I'm not a fighter, but in my mind I'm fighting every day. 'What's new? What am I doing?' I'm fighting myself. My soul is samurai. My roots aren't samurai, but my soul is.

You learn who you really are in a fight - what you're really made of. You have to face yourself and rise above your own fears and failings.

When you see how you react when you suffer that's when you know what you are made of.

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.