True Nature Quotes

“Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s true of everybody.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“The more we are illuminated, the more we want others to experience that also. We can't help but be generous and giving, because self and other is one, and the nature of self and the nature of other is one; it is true nature giving itself to itself. (p. 9)”
― A.H. Almaas, The Alchemy of Freedom: The Philosophers' Stone and the Secrets of Existence

“Change can be made only when you understand the true nature of things and not when you’ve form weird images of them into your head!”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo

“How much harder is it to walk with your feet bound? Or to talk with a hand over your mouth?' she lectured. 'Why do you waste all of your strength fighting your true nature?”
― Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone

“All I know is that all is well, and everything is unfolding as it should. All I know is, that happiness is your true nature. (p. 49)”
― Robert Adams, Silence of the Heart: Dialogues with Robert Adams

“Although hundreds or thousands of explanations are given,
There is only one thing to be understood -
Know the one thing that liberates everything -
Awareness itself, your true nature.”
― Dudjom Rinpoche, Wisdom Nectar: Dudjom Rinpoche's Heart Advice

“The human mind has the potential for infinite development. If you can discover, even in a small way, that true satisfaction comes from your mind, you will realize that you can extend this experience without limit and that it is possible to discover everlasting satisfaction.”
― Thubten Yeshe, Becoming Your Own Therapist

“Our true nature of eternal, infinite awareness is never completely forgotten or eclipsed by objective experience. However agitated or numbed objective experience may have rendered our mind, the memory of our eternity shines within it as the desire for happiness, or, in religious language, the longing for God.”
― Rupert Spira, Being Aware of Being Aware

“What comes into your life will either feel aligned with your true nature or it won't.”
― Kris Franken, The Call of Intuition: How to Recognize & Honor Your Intuition, Instinct & Insight

“Morality is like the famous fig leaves that Adam and Eve used to cover their genitals after they first sinned. But what morality really covers up is will, which is our true nature.”
― Shai Tubali

“Healing is a revolutionary act and we are here to awaken to the true nature of our own souls and the gifts we have to give to the world.”
― Michael Meade, The Genius Myth

“Lord Buddha himself taught that basically, human nature is pure, egoless, just as the sky is by nature clear, not cloudy. Clouds come and go, but the blue sky is always there; clouds don’t alter the fundamental nature of the sky. Similarly, the human mind is fundamentally pure.”
― Thubten Yeshe, Becoming Your Own Therapist

“Though we're conditioned to identify with the thoughts that pass through our awareness rather than with awareness itself, the awareness that is our true nature is infinitely flexible. It is capable of any and every sort of experience - even misconceptions about itself as limited, trapped, ugly, anxious, lonely, or afraid. When we begin to identify with that timeless, pristine awareness rather than with the thoughts, feelings, and sensations that pass through it, we've taken the first step toward facing the freedom of our true nature.”
― Yongey Mingyur, Joyful Wisdom: Embracing Change and Finding Freedom

“His character is like an emerald—multifaceted and enhanced by inclusions.”
― Melika Dannese Lux, Corcitura

“The secret of real success is to accept who you are, believe in it and stop trying to model yourself on someone else or what you think is expected of you. Aim to shape your life in as many ways that are possible to provide conditions that enhance your true nature and values.”
― Collette O'Mahony, In Quest of Love: A Guide to Inner Harmony and Wellbeing in Relationships

“According to Buddhism, all existents abide in loving-kindness free from concepts in their absolute nature. But the understanding and realization of that true nature have been covered over by the webs of our own mental, emotional, and intellectual obscurations. Now, in order to uncover the true nature and its qualities, we must dispel the cover — our unhealthy concepts, emotions, and actions. Through the power of devotion and contemplation, we must uncover and see the true innate enlightened qualities — loving-kindness that is free from concepts — shining forever.”
― Tulku Thondup, The Heart of Unconditional Love: A Powerful New Approach to Loving-Kindness Meditation

“Everything of significance you need to know about an artist hides, in plain sight, in their work.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

“If we realise the true nature of our existence, then the world appears to be pain covering the mask of pleasure.”
― Akshay Kulkarni

“Can we feel the freedom of a bird? The belonging of a flower? The esteem of an oak tree? The innocence of a cloud? The purity of water? The peace of a sunset? When we feel it outside, we’re already feeling it inside. A healing process begins.”
― Georgi Y. Johnson, Nondual Therapy: The Psychology of Awakening

“This peace feeds, soothes, honors and affirms us from within. There is purity in our lust; clarity in our confusion; innocence in our crimes; and belonging even in the thralls of rejection.”
― Georgi Y. Johnson, Nondual Therapy: The Psychology of Awakening

“The more we veer away from our true nature, the more unhappy we feel. When we align with our better self, we feel happy and content again.”
― Donna Goddard, Circles of Separation

“All appearances are vast openness,
Blissful and utterly free.

With a free, happy mind
I sing this song of joy.

When one looks toward one's own mind -
The root of all phenomena -
There is nothing but vivid emptiness,
Nothing concrete there to be taken as real.

It is present and transparent, utter openness,
Without outside, without inside -
An all pervasiveness
Without boundary and without direction.

The wide-open expanse of the view,
The true condition of the mind,
Is like the sky, like space:
Without center, without edge, without goal.

By leaving whatever i experience
Relaxed in ease, just as it is,
I have arrived at the vast plain
That is the absolute expanse.

Dissolving into the expanse of emptiness
That has no limits and no boundary,
Everything i see, everything i hear,
My own mind, and the sky all merge.

Not once has the notion arisen
Of these being seperate and distinct.

In the absolute expanse of awareness
All things are blended into that single taste -
But, relatively, each and every phenomenom is distinctly,
clearly seen.

Wondrous!”
― Shabkar, The Life of Shabkar: The Autobiography of a Tibetan Yogin

“Experience is always changing, like the movement of clouds against the sky. Realization—the stable awareness of the true nature of your mind—is like the sky itself, an unchanging background against which shifting experience occur.”
― Yongey Mingyur, The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness

“When we live in a state of dis-ease, we eventually end up creating disease. The genetically weaker parts of our body become more susceptible to ailment. Although the experience of falling ill has been challenging and difficult, it has nevertheless brought me an immense opportunity to dig deeper and connect with the wisdom within me. This is why I am a big believer of the concept of our unlimited nature. There is so much we are yet to discover about our true nature; the nature of being a soul and an empowered being, a conscious creator and connecting to the endless loving stream of the Universe.”
― Sarah Dakhili

“I gave you everything," Hal shouted.
"No, you took everything!" she yelled back. "You took my name away!"
Hal looked as bewildered as if she'd slapped him. Then his jolly, reasonable look was back, the mask once again in place.
"Daisy," he said, his voice calm.
"That's not my name!" she shrieked.
He reached out to put his hands on her shoulders, as he'd done so many times before, to hold her still, to instruct her, and in her head she ducked and saw Hal stumbling forward, grabbing for the wobbly post, the one that had never been repaired. She saw his feet skid on the slick surface of the deck, saw his arms pinwheeling, hands groping, reaching for her, for help that wouldn't come. She saw him fall, thudding down one, two, three, four, five, six flights of stairs, to lie, broken and motionless, on the sand, limbs twisted, eyes open to the rain. She saw herself look down at him, seeing nothing but a male body around a man-shaped void. Not a man at all, but a creature with cold, flat eyes, a monster with instincts for self-preservation and a species of low cunning, but not a man, not a person who had loved her, or anyone.”
― Jennifer Weiner, That Summer

“There is something magical about the ocean. Its color, its smell, its feeling, its depth, its wildness... You can always start at the shore, taking one step at a time to go deeper and deeper. Some become afraid of its vast nature and decide to stay near the shore, enjoying the shallow, but comforting character. But there are some that are willing to go deeper, discovering its extensive and enigmatic parts. It makes us feel small, but not in a bad way. We feel small because we realize we are part of something bigger. And it does not matter how deep we go, there are new options to be discovered. Once you hit the bottom you can always choose whether to go deeper or stay within your boundaries. However, the deeper we go the more possibilities there are. ​

That is the characteristic of the ocean. And THAT is the characteristic of SPORT.'​”
― Lea B.

“There is something magical about the ocean. Its color, its smell, its feeling, its depth, its wildness... You can always start at the shore, taking one step at a time to go deeper and deeper. Some become afraid of its vast nature and decide to stay near the shore, enjoying the shallow, but comforting character. But there are some that are willing to go deeper, discovering its extensive and enigmatic parts. It makes us feel small, but not in a bad way. We feel small because we realize we are part of something bigger. And it does not matter how deep we go, there are new options to be discovered. Once you hit the bottom you can always choose whether to go deeper or stay within your boundaries. However, the deeper we go the more possibilities there are. ​

That is the characteristic of the ocean. And THAT is the characteristic of SPORT.'​”
― Alexandrite Matis

“A person's assumptions reveal who they are, more than the words they utter.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

“We need to manifest a dominant paradigm for the liberation of people and planet based on mutual care and consideration. And love. We need to reboot our world with a unified vision to achieve this end. In this new zeitgeist, we can come together around creating a world for fully functional, fully integrated, fully realized individuals as the premise for coexistence.”
― Michael Ronin, Modern Masculinity for the Conscious Man: Making Sense in Troubled Times

“At its core, soul searching is a return to the center of your being. Quite literally, it is a journey to find your Soul or True Nature; it is a spiritual path. And usually, it marks the beginning of the spiritual awakening journey.”
― Aletheia Luna