Burt Ward Quotes

Self-Realization Fellowship seemed like training. It was the training ground for finding a sense of peace in myself. Because that's my job. It's no one else's.

Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work.

As you get older you learn some balance and mediation in your life - that's where I am right now. I feel pretty comfortable about things.

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.

I've gradually grown more comfortable with who I am and what I am.

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

I'm becoming more and more myself with time. I guess that's what grace is. The refinement of your soul through time.

Most of my life I didn't feel very normal. There's definitely been some moments where I feel like, all right, I've finally graduated and I'm a normal lady.

I'm realizing for the first time, your life goes on while you're trying to pursue this career. I saw my career as everything. But you have this life, too. Living your life fully, you come to know yourself better. You'll find the place for it.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

At this point in my life I'm not bent on proving anything, really.

It took me several years to figure out who I am and a few more to accept what I discovered. Now, I'm in the enjoyment stage of that process and it's a happy place.

I'm okay with myself. I had times when I was 15 about 'Who I am?' and 'What am I?' and where I want to go, and that's behind me.

It's neat to have finally reached a point where I can accept what I was and what I am.

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

We need to see, and agree that what we seek already lives within us, and we within it. Now we know our one great task: watch for whatever promises us freedom, and then quietly, consciously refuse to see ourselves through the eyes of what we know is incomplete. Then we live wholeness itself, instead of spending our lives looking for it.

The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.

I think life is about growing into yourself and getting to like that person.

I'm happier in my thirties. I feel clearer about who I am and less apologetic about it, and more accepting of my limitations and also more aware of the ways in which I'm capable.

There is an amazing power getting to know your inner self and learning how to use it and not fight with the world. If you know what makes you happy, your personality, interests and capabilities, just use them, and everything else flows beautifully.

When I was in my 20s, I don't think I knew what happiness was. Now, it's about getting to a place in your life when you're confident in the person you are. It took me a long time to get there.

The more we search for ourselves, the less likely we are to find ourselves; and the more we search for God, and to serve our fellow-men, the more profoundly will we become acquainted with ourselves, and the more inwardly assured. This is one of the great spiritual laws of life.

To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

Once you figure out who you are and what you love about yourself, I think it all kinda falls into place.

I've learned that the perfect picture that I hold in my mind of what my life looks like is constantly changing, growing, evolving. I remind myself that I am exactly where I need to be in my life; otherwise, I would surely be somewhere else.