May: Authenticity

2023

Authenticity awakens authenticity.

André Rochais (1921 – 1990) France

2022

Living from a place of authenticity is difficult because those living in distortion see you as a threat to their delusion and some are so attached to that delusion that they will behave in erratic ways to defend their ego’s projection of wounding.

Suzanne Wagner (1969 - ) Germany

2021

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

E.E. Cummings (1894 – 1962) USA

2020

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 – 1900) Germany

2019

Best keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you see the world.

George Bernard Shaw (1856 – 1950) Ireland

2018

Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous, half possession.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882) USA

2017

Keep your heart clear and transparent, and you will never be bound. A single disturbed thought creates ten thousand distractions.

Ryōkan Taigu (1758–1831) Japan

2016

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

May Sarton (1912 – 1995) USA

2015

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.

Carl Jung (1875 – 1961) Switzerland

2014

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

Ben Okri (1959) Nigeria

2013

Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway.

Mother Teresa (1910-1997) Albania.

2012

The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.

C.G. Jung (1875-1961) Switzerland

2011

Beneath all our thoughts lie our beliefs, the outer veil of our soul.

Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862) USA