
“You are not going to find yourself anywhere except right where you are.”
Shades of the World (1985)
Source: Find and Use Your Inner Power
“You are not going to find yourself anywhere except right where you are.”
Shades of the World (1985)
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Gargantua (1534), Chapter 50 : Gargantua's speech to the vanquished.
Context: Time, which gnaws and diminisheth all things else, augments and increaseth benefits; because a noble action of liberality, done to a man of reason, doth grow continually by his generous thinking of it and remembering it.
Being unwilling therefore any way to degenerate from the hereditary mildness and clemency of my parents, I do now forgive you, deliver you from all fines and imprisonments, fully release you, set you at liberty, and every way make you as frank and free as ever you were before.
“You cannot be both unhappy and fully present in the Now.”
A New Earth (2005)
Source: Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now
“By accepting yourself and being fully what you are, your presence can make others happy.”
“We read to find ourselves, more fully and more strangely than otherwise we could hope to find.”