Quotes About Self

To protect the separate self, we push certain things away, while to bolster it we hold on to other things and identify with them. A

Our belief in a limited and impoverished identity is such a strong habit that without it we are afraid we wouldn't know how to be.

No matter what the world around you wants, there is only one person you can be true to, and that is yourself.

Genuine spiritual practice requires us to learn how to stop the war. This is a first step, but actually it must be practiced over and over until it becomes our way of being. The inner stillness of a person who truly "is peace" brings peace to the whole interconnected web of life, both inner and outer. To stop the war, we need to begin with ourselves.

James Joyce described this relationship in the line, "Mr. Duffy lived a short distance from his body.

When one sees herself and her kind as the standard of perfection against which all else is measured, it is impossible to have perspective.

Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.

Don't lose youself on the way to the top.

Being in love we create love, being in hate we create hate, and, the image of the universe being in ourselves, the love or hate we create acts equally upon us. This is the great pragmatism of Magick.

More than anything else, more than your body, or the food you eat, you are your teeth. Life is a journey from milk teeth to false teeth with fillings and crowns thrown in in between for relief.

The creative personality is always one that looks on the world as fit for change and on himself as an instrument for change. Otherwise, what are you creating for? If the world is perfectly all right the way it is, you have no place in it. The creative personality thinks of the world as a canvas for change and of himself as a divine agent of change.

Most people are far more concerned that they can control their own bodies than they are about petitioning Congress.

I am grateful that I have rights in the proverbial public square--but, as a practical matter, my most cherished rights are those that I possess in my bedroom and hospital room and death chamber.

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others

This is the mark of great ideas: they unify people and they also act to unify the disparate parts of the human being; they speak of a social order that is possible on the basis of an ordering within the individual self.

El logro de la Unidad se produce cuando el observador incorpora en un acto simultáneo de observación, todos los contenidos de la experiencia. En esta hazaña el observador se confunde con sus contenidos y desaparece la división entre ambos, lográndose así el acceso a la Realidad del Yo Puro.

One of the first tasks a writer faces is the need to form an ethos, a way of being in the world, that permits the writer to create and present to the world a dynamic speaking and writing self.

Everyone has an identity. One of their own, and one for show.

A man must feel he runs things, but as long as you control yourself, you control him.

Well, I didn't need them. I didn't need anyone. I was Lola Rose. I just wished I looked more like my idea of Lola Rose.

And all the worlds you are - Ohio and Greenville Woodson and Irby Gunnar's Child and Jack's daughter Jehovah's Witness and nonbeliever listener and writer Jackie and Jacqueline - gather into one world called You where You decide what each world and each story and each ending will finally be.

That's all anybody is-themselves. People all the time wanting to change that.

Et je comprends soudain que perdre son nom équivaut à perdre son ombre ; se réduire à son nom c'est se réduire à son ombre.