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Problems are the gifts that make us dig out and figure out who we are, what we're made for, and what we're responsible to give back to life.
Who we are matters immeasurably more than what we know or who we want to be.
We cannot achieve our wildest dreams by remaining who we are
We all have different gifts, so we all have different ways of saying to the world who we are.
Language is our way of communicating what we want and who we are.
If you look at all the notions we accept about who we are, you find that they are all based upon our perceptual experiences.
You don't have to agree with me, but I think the heart of who we are stays pretty much the same," Hope said, "What changes is how those core traits manifest themselves over time.
And the best way to know who we are is often to find out how others see us.
Today, our sexuality is an open-ended personal project; it is part of who we are, an identity, and no longer merely something we do.
As we free ourselves from the suffering of 'something is wrong with me, 'we trust and express the fullness of who we are.'
The real & lasting practice for each of us is to remove what obstructs us so we can be who we are.
There are multiple sides to all of us. Who we are - and who we might be if we follow our dreams
How we treat our invalids - our mad, our physically or mentally compromised family members - does tell you something about who we are politically, historically, culturally.
From the moment we claim the truth of being the beloved, we are faced with the call to become who we are.
Whatever it is that calls us, that's our path. And as we walk that path, we have a chance to shine forth who we are. It affects other people around us.
Did you ever wonder if the person in the picture is the same one you see when you look in the mirror?" - "That's the eternal question, isn't it? Are we born who we are, or do we make ourselves that way?
We are not our bodies, our possessions, or our careers. Who we are is DIVINE LOVE and that is INFINITE.
Most of us remain strangers to ourselves, hiding who we are, and ask other strangers, hiding who they are, to love us.
We build our lives in moments, and even the ones we can't remember become the story of who we are.
The real thing that we renounce is the tenacious hope that we could be saved from being who we are.
Who God is and what Christ did have huge implications for who we are personally and what we desire sexually.
Unless we base our sense of identity upon the truth of who we are, it is impossible to attain true happiness.
We must be our own authentically unique truth, and question who we are, what created us, and what processes within us are alien and externally created.
Maybe we all have a dark place inside of us, a place where dark thoughts and darker dreams live, but it doesn't have to become who we are.
It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that make us who we are? Do we understand the factors that make us do the things we do?
I feel that history is in many ways the most important of all subjects because it is about everything and because it's about who we are and how we came to be the way we are.
Life is a succession of crises and moments when we have to rediscover who we are and what we really want.
I subscribe to William Faulkner's' view that history is not just about what we were before but who we are now.
We never get to the bottom of ourselves on our own. We discover who we are face to face and side by side with others in work, love and learning.
Who we are varies according to our awareness. When you are more aware, you are someone else than when you are less aware.
We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. It may even be necessary to encounter the defeat, so that we can know who we are.
Every thought, emotion, and action is a statement about who we are, and who we are becoming. Why not make this statement 'On Purpose'?
We must go back again and again to the Gospel of Christ crucified, so that our hearts are more deeply gripped by the reality of what He did and who we are in Him.
What I really learned was that life is a gift and our only purpose is to be who we are. We all make it so complicated, and try to find our purpose, I learned that all I have to do is be as me as I can be.
Because we are a conglomerate of our experiences - you take away any experience and you take away a piece of identity. You take away a piece of identity and we don't really know who we are.
Your life has purpose as long as you dedicate it to love. It's not what we do but who we are that forms our biggest contribution.
We can only belong when we offer our most authentic selves and when we're embraced for who we are.
In the end analysis, all we have is who we are and the way we have lived our lives.
There is a light within each of us that can never be diminished or extinguished. It can only be obscured by forgetting who we are
"Difficulty" is the name of an ancient tool that was created purely to help us define who we are.
When we deny what comes through us, it defines us. When we honestly face what comes through us, then who we are grows.
Gratitude flows from the recognition that who we are and what we have are gifts to be received and shared.
The point is that our true nature is not some ideal that we have to live up to. It's who we are right now, and that's what we can make friends with and celebrate.
Each generation, we peel back biases that have blinded those before us. The more we know about the past enables us to ask richer and more provocative questions about who we are today.
Death is not the end of who we are. It is only a brief pause in the endless cycle of our lives. Each of us is a spirit that cannot die.
Knowledge is important, but only if we're being kind and gentle with ourselves as we work to discover who we are.
How can we know who we are and where we are going if we don't know anything about where we have come from and what we have been through, the courage shown, the costs paid, to be where we are?
In Buddhist Yoga, we refer to our mutlilife karmic traits as samskaras. They are the internal karmic patterns that make each of us who we are.
What we know matters, but who we are matters more. Being rather than knowing requires showing up and letting ourselves be seen. It requires us to dare greatly, to be vulnerable.
There's a resonance inside us, a sense of who we are. We're a multi-bodied traveler. We're an essence. We're a feeling, an awareness that has an ancient existence.