Self-Guidance Quotes

... circles of trust ... are a rare form of community - one that supports rather than supplants the individual quest for integrity - that is rooted in two basic beliefs. First, we all have an inner teacher whose guidance is more reliable than anything we can get from a doctrine, ideology, collective belief system, institution, or leader. Second, we all need other people to invite, amplify, and help us discern the inner teacher's voice.

Be a lamp unto yourself.

No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Your life is your own. You mold it. You make it. All anyone can do is to point out ways and means which have been helpful to others. Perhaps they will serve as suggestions to stimulate your own thinking until you know what it is that will fulfill you, will help you to find out what you want to do with your life.

It is necessary that one be a light to oneself in a world that is becoming utterly dark.

I'd lived by quotations, practically all my life.

I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.

I want my inner truth to be the plumb line for the choices I make about my life - about the work that I do and how I do it, about the relationships I enter into and how I conduct them.

Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

We've done enough - and made enough mistakes - to pretty well know how to guide our careers ourselves.

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

Don't listen to friends when the Friend inside you says "Do this."

If you are kept in ignorance of the true way and permit yourself to rely upon and be guided by the opinion of imperfect man, you can never gain the riches that will bring you peace and lasting happiness.

I've always thought you should concentrate on paddling your own canoe.

What gives you pleasure and joy? Let those be the things that lead you forward in life.

Your legacy is being written by yourself. Make the right decisions.

Therefore, be ye lamps unto yourselves, be ye a refuge to yourselves. Hold fast to the truth as a lamp; hold fast as a refuge to the truth. Look not for refuge to anyone besides yourselves.

Be lamps unto yourselves. Be refuges unto yourselves. Take yourself no external refuge. Hold fast to the truth as a lamp. Hold fast to the truth as a refuge. Look not for a refuge in anyone besides yourselves. And those, Ananda, who either now or after I am dead, Shall be a lamp unto themselves, Shall betake themselves as no external refuge, But holding fast to the truth as their lamp, Holding fast to the truth as their refuge, Shall not look for refuge to anyone else besides themselves, It is they who shall reach to the very topmost height; But they must be anxious to learn.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself; you will never err if you listen to your own suggestions.

I talk to myself everyone once in a while. Give myself very good advice. Sometimes I even take it.

Ultimately, we are not seeking others to bow to, but to reinforce our individual natures, to help us suffer our own choices, to guide us on our own particular journeys.

Make of yourself a light.

Your soul - that inner quiet space - is yours to consult. It will always guide you in the right direction.