Anne Morrow Lindbergh Quotes

In the quiet moments of your day, what do you think and do? When you are with your Self and no one else, how does life proceed for you? Who are you when you are alone? Self-creation is a Holy Experience. It is sacred. It is you, deciding Who You Are.

Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.

I have not had time to reflect on my own truths in many years.

I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It's already there.

The only journey is the one within.

I use solitude as a judge and as a person - a lot.

I want people to find their inner depth.

It took living alone for me to really get to know myself.

I want to learn from myself, want to be my student, want to get to know myself, the secret of Siddhartha.

So it is necessary that we should learn to be alone.

We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

What's in your soul is in your soul.

There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.

You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You've got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It's all down to you, mate.

The starting point of discovering who you are, your gifts, your talents, your dreams, is being comfortable with yourself. Spend time alone. Write in a journal. Take long walks in the woods.

One of the things that I've come to understand is that as I talk a lot about Picard, what I find is that I'm talking about myself.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

Nothing said to us, nothing we can learn from others, reaches us so deep as that which we find in ourselves.

In solitude, we find ourselves; we prepare ourselves to come to conversation with something to say that is authentic, ours.

I've realised that I actually like being by myself.

In order to find yourself, who you really are, you got to be with yourself; you got to hang out with yourself.

You discover who you truly are only when you live alone.