When I discover who I am, I’ll be free. — Ralph Ellison
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Trying to find out who you are will lead you to the work you need to do, the lessons you need to learn. When our inner and outer beings are one, we no longer need to hide, fear, or protect ourselves. We see who we are as something that transcends our circumstances.
Free others to be who they are. In so doing, you will set yourself free.
Your real self may be hiding somewhere, look for it within, when you find yourself, you can freely be what you want to be.
When I have forgiven myself and remembered who I am, I will bless everyone and everything I see.” The way to freedom often lies through the open heart.
As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.
Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves?
I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. And I'm going to figure out what that is.
To find out if there is actually such freedom one must be aware of one's own conditioning, of the problems, of the monotonous shallowness, emptiness, insufficiency of one's daily life, and above all one must be aware of fear. One must be aware of oneself neither introspectively nor analytically, but actually be aware of oneself as one is and see if it is at all possible to be entirely free of all those issues that seem to clog the mind.
To explore, there must be freedom, not at the end, but right at the beginning. Unless one is free one cannot explore, investigate or examine.
Two things are essential: freedom and the act of learning. One cannot learn about oneself unless one is free, free so that one can observe, not according to any pattern, formula or concept, but actually observe oneself as one is.
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To discover the mode of life or of art whereby my spirit could express itself in unfettered freedom.
Between the ages of twenty and forty we are engaged in the process of discovering who we are, which involves learning the differences between accidental limitations which it is our duty to outgrow and the necessary limitations of our nature beyond which we cannot trespass with impunity.
Sometimes you have to lose all you have to find out who you truly are.
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