Quotes About Self

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.

For others, in spite of myself, from myself.

Play like dreams serves the function of self realization.

Each waking day is a stage dominated for good or ill, comedy, farce, or tragedy, by a dramatis personae, the 'self', and so it will be until the curtain drops.

By philosophy the mind of man comes to itself, and from henceforth rests on itself without foreign aid, and is completely master of itself, as the dancer of his feet, or the boxer of his hands.

Who but the Atman is capable of removing the bonds of ignorance, passion and self-interested action?

There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.

the serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself.

It's an inside job to learn about forgiving, it's an inside job to hang on to the joy of living.

My life belongs to me, my love belongs to those who can see it.

This is the secret of life: the self lives only by dying, finds its identity (and its happiness) only by self-forgetfulness, self-giving, self-sacrifice, and agape love.

It's the whole Nietzche philosophy of you are your own God. That's why I debase myself in the concerts and tell people to spit on me. I'm saying to them 'You are no different from me'.

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

The spectacle is at the same time the mirage of self in the mirror of things.

You got to live for yourself, yourself and nobody else.

I think I am, therefore, I am... I think.

According to this philosophy, each man consists of three parts - the body, the internal organ or the mind, and behind that, what is called the Atman, the Self.

I went off to fight some battle that I'd invented inside me.

Being our Self is the wisest philosophy, the bravest action, the kindest consideration and the greatest act of healing imaginable.

So long as we are in conflict with our body, we cannot find peace of mind.

I lost my power in the world because I did not use it.

You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

It seems essential to try to find some meaning to life and I guess Jungian philosophy is the one that's helped me understand myself and the world more than anything else.