This Is What Happens When “You Follow Others Instead Of Being Yourself”

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Benjamin Creme said, “No one can lead you. You are born to be aware of yourself, to know the Master in yourself.” Why are you not comfortable with yourself? Why are you not happy with your life? The answer is simple: because you are not “aware of yourself.” And to be comfortable with yourself, you must know who you are. Do not try to be like another person.

You are not born to imitate other people. You are here on this earth to make your own statement. No matter how you look, to know who you are, you must be aware of yourself. Because no one knows you more than you know yourself. Do not get busy try to defeat another person. Instead, why not focus on making yourself better than you were yesterday? Do not imitate anybody. You have what it takes to do what you are put here to do. According to Benjamin Creme, “If you follow others instead of being yourself, you lose your sparkle and cannot reflect the light of individuality. Without that light, there is no progress in life.” So if you want to reinvent your life, you must follow yourself, not other people.

12 Best C.S. Lewis Quotes That Will Change You Forever

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Life is all about change. Where there is no change, there can be no progress. If you want to grow, you must be willing to change. Here are 12 powerful C.S. Lewis that will change your life forever. Let’s explore them:

“You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.”- C. S. Lewis

“Now, to-day, this moment, is our chance to choose the right side.”- C. S. Lewis

“We do not retreat from reality; we discover it.”- C. S. Lewis

“When you have reached your own room, be kind to those who have chosen a different doors and to those who are still in the hall way.”- C. S. Lewis

“Only a real risk tests the reality of a belief.”- C. S. Lewis

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken.”- C. S. Lewis

“We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious, we discover loneliness. We need others physically, emotionally, intellectually; we need them if we are to know anything, even ourselves.”- C.S. Lewis

“Goodness is either the great safety or the great danger- according to the way you react to it.”- C.S. Lewis

“Each of us at each moment is progressing to the one state or the other.”- C.S. Lewis

“Every time you make a choice you are turning the central part of you, the part of you that chooses, into something a little different from what it was before.”- C.S. Lewis

“The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs.”- C.S. Lewis

“If the universe is not governed by an absolute goodness, then all our efforts are in the long run hopeless.”– C.S. Lewis