Take lightly what you hear about individuals. We need not distort trust for our paltry little political agendas. We tend to trust soulless, carried information more than we trust soulful human beings; but really most...

Helping others in need is not only a responsibility of life; it is what gives meaning to life.

I live wherever you are cos honestly there’s no better place to call home

Every man has a specific skill, whether it is discovered or not, that more readily and naturally comes to him than it would to another, and his own should be sought and polished. He excels...

I can be a better me than anyone can.

When you’re socially awkward, you’re isolated more than usual, and when you’re isolated more than usual, your creativity is less compromised by what has already been said and done. All your hope in life starts...

You can escape competition through authenticity, when you realize that no one can compete with you on being you. That would have been useless advice pre-internet. Post-internet, you can turn that into a career.

Authenticity is the gap between your thoughts and your actions. The smaller the gap, the more genuine the lifestyle.

Of course, being open and vulnerable will lead us to, sometimes, experience pain. But what is pain? It is simply a feeling. It is not forever. If you get pain from some person or thing...

I’m a thousand different people. Every one is real.

To change any behavior we have to slow down and act intentionally rather than from habit and impulse.

We all have an opportunity and responsibility to create a legacy. A legacy which is resilient, sustainable and authentic.” – Jim Cookson, Doctoral Student, Ashridge Business School, UK, August 2014

Keep it real … wear the “no photoshop seal

Lear, Macbeth. Mercutio – they live on their own as it were. The newspapers are full of them, if we were only the Shakespeares to see it. Have you ever been in a Police Court?...

We all have an inner intuition for authenticity, for matched up internal and external truth. When we detect this, we feel immediate comfort. We know truth when we hear it.

But above all, in order to be, never try to seem.

Like a Columbus of the heart, mind and soul I have hurled myself off the shores of my own fears and limiting beliefs to venture far out into the uncharted territories of my inner truth,...

How can so many (white, male) writers narratively justify restricting the agency of their female characters on the grounds of sexism = authenticity while simultaneously writing male characters with conveniently modern values?The habit of authors...

Don’t be afraid to be authentic, show up in the world as you truly are.Be as you mean to be, but be light with it. Love it, give it, share it, laugh at it, walk...

A man could not be prevented from making himself a big wax doll, and kissing it. But if the man were to come with the doll and sit before a man in love, and begin...

Scholars, theologians, and even poets have yet to be able to truly describe and touch upon the beauty, romance, and magic of a relationship built on 100% authenticity

In general, when a novel manipulates its material to conform to the pieties of the day, or alternatively to attack those pieties for no other reason than the visibility such an attack will generate, when...

Without authenticity, we are only a poor imitation of someone else.

True creation requires authority and authenticity.

Abandonment of slavery is also the banishment of the chimera of security. The world will not change overnight, and liberation will not happen unless individual women agree to be outcasts, eccentrics, perverts, and whatever the...

Authenticity is a choice we make about who we want to be that inspires our greater aliveness.

It’s a funny thing, how it works…The moment we stop trying so hard to be someone, we become ourselves–only what was there all along, waiting and peeking out from behind all the masks we wore.And...

For a moment, I felt like myself again. Not the new me, not the old me, just the real me.

Polarities of the ‘authentic’ vs. the ‘inauthentic’ are easily discernible in recreational modes. The criteria of authenticity are not necessarily objective but rather have to do with the rules by which the self allows or...

There is no need to become unique. We already are unique. There is no need to become equal. We already are equal. The greatest tragedies of humankind have come from people trying to force sameness...

He was the only authentic German. You might like him. Being a police officer, you’re undoubtedly familiar with the need to put an end to the lives of the perverse when sex crimes go too...

Some people make you want to be a better person, and that, for me, is the purest form of love.

Our imperfections are what create authentic connections with one another.

Only fake tears last forever.

It is so easy to practice a creditable degree of so seeming virtue, and so difficult to purify and direct the affections of the heart, that I feel myself in continual danger of appearing better...

God impressed me with this a long time ago: ‘Roddy, I will never do anything through you until I have done it to you!’.”~R. Alan Woods [1998]

When you begin to walk your own journey, to have your own unique conversation, you will naturally stop feeling envious of others. Not because you’ll realize your desires are different from theirs, but because they...

While many of us admire nice things, materialism and suffering may share a connection. When we place a great deal of our happiness in material things, we run the great risk of losing our happiness...

Highly sensitive people are too often perceived as weaklings or damaged goods. To feel intensely is not a symptom of weakness, it is the trademark of the truly alive and compassionate. It is not the...

When we connect with our personal authenticity and truth, the vitality that is triggered becomes an eternal spring of regenerative passion that continues to expand our experience.

When outsiders claim that we are unchristian, it is a reflection of this jumbled (and predominately negative) set of perceptions. When they see Christians not acting like Jesus, they quickly conclude that the group deserves...

When the author admits to Christians that he was not a Christian himself, he says their dialogue became “distant and rehearsed, like a pitch for Ginsu knives.

Your truest spiritual path will lead you to yourself for it is devoted to becoming.

There is nothing more beautiful than seeing a person being themselves. Imagine going through your day being unapologetically you.

As far as I was concerned, a little danger of head-shrinking is a small price to pay in return for a people who have remained true to an ancient code.

You will never change, unless you are honest with yourself or you are forced to be authentic by someone that was honest with him or herself.

The total destruction of falsehood allows authentic creative flow to happen.

Only the truth of who you are, if realized, will set you free.

that’s just not me!” stand in the way.

Authenticity empowers communication.