Sue Monk Kidd Self Quotations

Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work.

The True Self is not our creation, but God's. It is the self we are in our depths. It is our capacity for divinity and transcendence.

Here is where our real selfhood is rooted, in the divine spark or seed, in the image of God imprinted on the human soul. The True Self is not our creation, but God's. It is the self we are in our depths. It is our capacity for divinity and transcendence.

You have untold strengths and resources inside. You have your glorious self.

Back in the autumn I had awakened to a growing darkness and cacophony, as if something in the depths were crying out. A whole chorus of voices. Orphaned voices. They seemed to speak for all the unlived parts of me, and they came with a force and dazzle that I couldn't contain. They seemed to explode the boundaries of my existence. I know now that they were the clamor of a new self struggling to be born.

When a woman starts to disentangle herself from patriarchy, ultimately she is abandoned to her own self.

Whatever else you do, listen to your Deepest Self. Love Her and be true to Her, speak Her truth, always.