Quotes About Self

Our real beliefs are generally not to be found at the level of ego.

A faith that can only exist in the light of victory and certainty is one which really affirms the self while pretending to affirm Christ, for it only follows Jesus in the belief that Jesus has conquered death. Yet a faith that can look at the horror of the cross and still say 'yes' is one that says 'no' to the self in saying 'yes' to Christ.

When confronted with inner conflicts, we are tempted to obscure them by externalizing the antagonisms—something that is done through the hatred of others and/or the hatred of the self (a method in which the scapegoat mechanism is turned inward). The more difficult, courageous, and ethical path involves attempting to face and tarry with the antagonisms.

Free won't is true freedom of will. Freedom from the will of ego-mind.

In the West we tend to think of compassion as a form of charity, but I share Lao-tzu's view that compassion for all beings—not least of all oneself—is the key to breaking down barriers among people.

Our bodies are as unknown to us as the ocean, both familiar and strange; the sea inside ourselves.

The animal at bay was himself.

It's the basic condition of life to be required to violate our own identity.

I have seen myself backward.

You put on a bishop's robe and miter, he pondered, and walk around in that, and people bow and genuflect and like that, and try to kiss your ring, if not your ass, and pretty soon you're a bishop. So to speak. What is identity? he asked himself. Where does the act end? Nobody knows.

In his article, Bogen concluded: "I believe [with Wigan] that each of us has two minds in one person. There is a host of detail to be marshaled in this case. But we must eventually confront directly the principal resistance to the Wigan view: that is, the subjective feeling possessed by each of us that we are One. This inner conviction of Oneness is a most cherished opinion of Western Man. . . .

What is identity? he asked himself. Where does the act end? Nobody knows.

It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity.

We have no value, she said to herself. We can live out our tiny lives. If we want to. If it matters to us.

I'm not much but I'm all I have.

We have no value, she said to herself. We can live out our tiny lives. If we want to. If it matters to us. From

But what I've done, he thought; that's become alien to me. In fact everything about me has become unnatural; I've become an unnatural self.

I've married before and it was no better, and if I divorce Kathy I'll marry again—because as my brainbasher puts it I can't find my identity outside the role of husband and daddy and big butter-and-egg-man wage earner—and the next damn one will be the same because that's the kind I select. It's rooted in my temperament.

Thomas," Fat told me, "is smarter than I am, and he knows more than I do. Of the two of us Thomas is the master personality." He considered that good; woe unto someone who has an evil or stupid other personality in his head!

What you teach is the word of man. Man is holy, and the true god, the living god, is man himself. You will have no gods but yourselves; the days in which you believed in other gods end now, they end forever.

Apuesto a que te dijo que fue el destino el que te trajo aquí, ¿verdad? Creen que son peones en manos de seres superiores, cuando en realidad son peones en manos de sus propias subconscientes, que se han desbocado.

A portion of him turns against him and acts like another person, defeating him from inside. A man inside a man. Which is no man at all.

De manera que debo advertirle que cualquier cosa que piense podrá emplearse contra usted.

But I feel a unity between the force which changed me and the red and gold energy which I saw. From within me, as part of me, it looked out and saw itself.