John Milton Quotes

You don't go through a deep personal transformation without some kind of dark night of the soul.

I wouldn't mind leaving myself behind if I could, but I don't know the way out.

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

A psychoneurosis must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.

We all have to go through our own spiritual process. It is very difficult. Some people are struggling and they are in their teens. Some people are in their 50s and they're struggling. Some people go through life and die not being able to accept themselves. Tragic. But it's very individual. And it's about self-esteem.

Every man is crucified upon the cross of himself.

Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us.

Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.

Whoever you pretend to be, you must face yourself eventually.

I can't wish I weren't something that I am.

It's something that I had been pushing down my whole life. The search for meaning, I guess, the whispering of the soul.

In life, there's a ladder sometimes, and maybe at the top, there's a mirror. You take a step up, then maybe three steps down... just because you don't want to face the decloaking in the mirror.

You can't escape from yourself, can you?

What I was chasing in circles must have been the tail of the darkness inside me.

If you realize what the real problem is-losing yourself-you realize that this itself is the ultimate trial.

I felt at some point that I had nothing to lose, and [laughs] maybe I was wrong. I think, you know, there's always these little autobiographical secrets behind things. I think I was really attacking my earlier self, and this kind of pretentious figure.

I didn't pay much attention to the whistles and whoops, in fact, I didn't quite hear them. I was full of a strange feeling, as if I were two people. One of them was Norma Jeane from the orphanage who belonged to nobody; the other was someone whose name I didn't know. But I knew where she belonged; she belonged to the ocean and the sky and the whole world.

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.

I felt like I was literally losing myself as being the joyful, spiritual, passionate, exciting woman that I naturally had been.

He had reached that moment in life, different for each one of us, when a man abandonds himself to his demon or to his genius, following a mysterious law which bids him either to destroy or outdo himself.

When one is a stranger to oneself, then one is estranged from others, too.

I crawled in the bathroom, looked in the mirror and saw the devil. It was me.

The point is to strip down, get protestant, then even more naked. Walk over scorched bricks to find your own soul. Your heart a searching dog in the rubble.

Sometimes it is painful to be oneself; at other times it seems impossible to escape oneself.