Original Self Quotes

“God doesn't create imitations, so He designed you naturally. It’s ungratefulness to dream of putting on unnatural self. You have no right to fake God’s design!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Watchwords

“It’s as close to true freedom as I have come. Not freedom of, but freedom from; freedom from the debris of life that piles up and forces us to dig and dig for our original self, who we were once upon a time, innocent and wonderfully naïve, as authentically pure as a human can be.”
― Dan Groat, An Enigmatic Escape: A Trilogy

“Unlike the West, the “true self” is not created over time but discovered, which is why Daoist and Zen writings may refer to it as “original nature.” Our original nature is a primordial melody, and to hear it, one must silence all the extraneous noise.”
― Aldrich Chan, 7 Principles of Nature: How We Strayed and How We Return