--- title: "10 Hidden Self Quotes by 10 authors" description: "Browse 10 Hidden Self quotes by 10 authors. Discover the best Hidden Self sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0e9/bob-proctor-1579_causes_science-and-psychology-have-isolated-the_527805.png" --- > [Science and psychology have isolated the one prime cause for success or failure in life. It is the hidden self-image you have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-proctor/science-and-psychology-have-isolated-the-one-prime-cause-for-success/) [Bob Proctor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-proctor/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0e9/bob-proctor-1579_causes_science-and-psychology-have-isolated-the_527805.png) > [And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-arnold/and-long-we-try-in-vain-to-speak-and-act-our-hidden-self-and-what-we/) [Matthew Arnold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-arnold/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b89/matthew-arnold-1235_eloquent_and-long-we-try-in-vain-to-speak-and-act_1698654.jpg) > [“There is no realization of ‘who am I?’ ‘One’ is trying to remain hidden from his ‘own Self’. He knows all that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dada-bhagwan/there-is-no-realization-of-who-am-i-one-is-trying-to-remain-hidden/) [Dada Bhagwan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dada-bhagwan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/db1/dada-bhagwan-31_identity_there-is-no-realization-of-who-am-i-one_1077939.jpg) > [Doing work you love is the dizzying path of saying yes to yourself and yes to a brilliant, hidden self you do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tama-j-kieves/doing-work-you-love-is-the-dizzying-path-of-saying-yes-to-yourself/) [Tama J. Kieves](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tama-j-kieves/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/281/tama-j-kieves-24365_brilliant_doing-work-you-love-is-the-dizzying-path_2642253.jpg) > [We do not know who we are until we take time to discover who we can be. Hidden within us is unrealized…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edwin-mamerto/we-do-not-know-who-we-are-until-we-take-time-to-discover-who-we-can/) [Edwin Mamerto](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edwin-mamerto/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1c0/edwin-mamerto-4738_becoming-yourself_we-do-not-know-who-we-are-until-we-take_1510578.jpg) > [One's own self is well hidden from one's own self; of all mines of treasure, one's own is the last to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/one-s-own-self-is-well-hidden-from-one-s-own-self-of-all-mines-of/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d43/friedrich-nietzsche-15_being-your-true-self_one-s-own-self-is-well-hidden-from-one-s_3129400.jpg) > [An artist needs to become familiar with that which is most hidden from the self by the self. For this one thing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pat-steir/an-artist-needs-to-become-familiar-with-that-which-is-most-hidden/) [Pat Steir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pat-steir/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/89a/pat-steir-31386_art_an-artist-needs-to-become-familiar-with_3010439.jpg) > [“Each one, in my impassioned interior conversations, granted me some aspect of my most dearly held, most fiercely hidden heart’s desires. Life,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/claire-messud/each-one-in-my-impassioned-interior-conversations-granted-me-some/) [Claire Messud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/claire-messud/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/20b/claire-messud-1372_communication_each-one-in-my-impassioned-interior-conv_543691.png) > [“Under this swarm of waspish self-inquiries he began to feel sorry for himself - a brilliant man trapped, a Byron tamed; and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-fowles/under-this-swarm-of-waspish-self-inquiries-he-began-to-feel-sorry-for/) [John Fowles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-fowles/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/31b/john-fowles-816_attracted_under-this-swarm-of-waspish-self-inquiri_728961.jpg) > [“The distinction between acquisition and discovery may seem like hairsplitting, but it is important to see that . . . the contemplative…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-laird/the-distinction-between-acquisition-and-discovery-may-seem-like/) [Martin Laird](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-laird/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0df/martin-laird-32438_books_the-distinction-between-acquisition-and_3185537.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hidden-self/#itemlist", "name": "Hidden Self Quotes", "numberOfItems": 10, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Science and psychology have isolated the one prime cause for success or failure in life. 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That I could be seen for my unvarnished self, and that this hidden self, this precious girl without a mask, unseen for decades, could, that indeed she must, leave a trace upon the world.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Claire Messud" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/claire-messud/each-one-in-my-impassioned-interior-conversations-granted-me-some/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/20b/claire-messud-1372_communication_each-one-in-my-impassioned-interior-conv_543691.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/20b/claire-messud-1372_communication_each-one-in-my-impassioned-interior-conv_543691.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/20b/claire-messud-1372_communication_each-one-in-my-impassioned-interior-conv_543691.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Each one, in my impassioned interior conversations, granted me some aspect of my most dearly held, most…” — Claire Messud", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 9, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Under this swarm of waspish self-inquiries he began to feel sorry for himself - a brilliant man trapped, a Byron tamed; and his mind wandered back to Sarah, to visual images, attempts to recollect that face, that mouth, that generous mouth. Undoubtedly it awoke some memory in him, too tenuous, perhaps too general, to trace to any source in his past; but it unsettled him and haunted him, by calling to some hidden self he hardly knew existed. He said it to himself: It is the stupidest thing, but that girl attracts me. It seemed clear to him that it was not Sarah in herself who attracted him - how could she, he was betrothed - but some emotion, some possibility she symbolized. She made him aware of a deprivation. His future had always seemed to him of vast potential; and now suddenly it was a fixed voyage to a known place. 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In that sense, and an important sense, it is not a technique but a surrendering of deeply imbedded resistances that allows the sacred within gradually to reveal itself as a simple, fundamental fact. Out of this letting go there emerges what St. Paul called our “hidden self”: “may he give you the power through his Spirit for your hidden self to grow strong” (Eph 3:16). Again, contemplative practice does not produce this “hidden self” but facilitates the falling away of all that obscures it. This voice of the liberated hidden self, the “sacred within,” joins the Psalmist’s, “Oh, Lord, you search me and you know me. … It was you who created my inmost self. … I thank you for the wonder of my being” (Ps 138 (9):1, 13, 14).”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Martin Laird" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-laird/the-distinction-between-acquisition-and-discovery-may-seem-like/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0df/martin-laird-32438_books_the-distinction-between-acquisition-and_3185537.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0df/martin-laird-32438_books_the-distinction-between-acquisition-and_3185537.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0df/martin-laird-32438_books_the-distinction-between-acquisition-and_3185537.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The distinction between acquisition and discovery may seem like hairsplitting, but it is important to see…” — Martin Laird", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hidden-self/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hidden-self/", "name": "Hidden Self Quotes", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hidden-self/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0e9/bob-proctor-1579_causes_science-and-psychology-have-isolated-the_527805.png" }, "description": "Browse 10 Hidden Self quotes by 10 authors. 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