Self Discovery

Imam Ali (AS): "Whoever has identified his self, in reality has recognized his Creator."

Self discovery is world's largest discovery. Here passion encompasses everything; sleeping, awakening, each and everywhere. Satisfaction, happiness, commitment are ingredients of passion.

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”

“When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.”

“Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.”

“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”

“We can't be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea. Holding onto something that is good for you now, may be the very reason why you don't have something better.”

“Sometimes you have to kind of die inside in order to rise from your own ashes and believe in yourself and love yourself to become a new person.”

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”

“And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?”

“If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are.”

“You’ll never be able to find yourself if you’re lost in someone else.”

“It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters,”

“The only journey is the one within.”

“It takes courage ... to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would last the rest of our lives.”

“I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self.”

“It is easier to live through someone else than to complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan your own life is frightening if you have never faced it before. It is frightening when one finally realizes that there is no answer to the question 'who am I' except the voice inside self.”

“When I was little and running on the race track at school, I always stopped and waited for all the other kids so we could run together even though I knew (and everybody else knew) that I could run much faster than all of them! I pretended to read slowly so I could "wait" for everyone else who couldn't read as fast as I could! When my friends were short I pretended that I was short too and if my friend was sad I pretended to be unhappy. I could go on and on about all the ways I have limited myself, my whole life, by "waiting" for people. And the only thing that I've ever received in return is people thinking that they are faster than me, people thinking that they can make me feel bad about myself just because I let them and people thinking that I have to do whatever they say I should do. 
Now I'm not waiting for anybody, anymore! I'm going to run as fast as I can, fly as high as I can, I am going to soar and if you want you can come with me! But I'm not waiting for you anymore.”

“I suffer from life and from other people. I can’t look at reality face to face. Even the sun discourages and depresses me. Only at night and all alone, withdrawn, forgotten and lost, with no connection to anything real or useful, only then do I find myself and feel comforted.”

"The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors."

"Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter."

"Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice."

"Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable."