Quotes About Self

Thomas Merton characterized it: "One breaks through the limits of cultural structural religion ... [where one experiences] a kind of limitlessness.... lack of inhibition, ... psychic fullness of creativity, which mark the fully integrated maturity of the 'enlightened self.' "116

The] Tao [Self] Is simplicity, stillness, Indifference, purity. Here the highest knowledge Is unbounded.71

She was more sure of her politics than she was of herself.

It's a sad and stupid thing to have to proclaim yourself a revolutionary just to be a decent man.

The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.

Your salvation is free, but the anointing will cost you everything. The price of the anointing is simply surrender. You want to know the key to power, honestly and truly? You have to die to self. Power is found in the death of the flesh.

If you aren't free of yourself how will you ever become yourself?

In meditation, you can watch thoughts emerge from emptiness and return back to that emptiness. This leads first to the realization that you are separate from those thoughts, which we normally identify with self.

Men often act knowingly against their interest.

There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it.

For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other, of heat or cold, light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I never can catch myself at any time without a perception, and never can observe any thing but the perception…

It is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity.

Il est difficile de parler de soi longtemps sans vanité.

It is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity. - My Own Life

When I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other, of heat or cold, light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I never can catch myself at any time without a perception, and never can observe any thing but the perception. When my perceptions are removed for any time, as by sound sleep; so long am I insensible of myself, and may truly be said not to exist.

The reason most people don't express their individuality and actually deny it, is not fear of what prime ministers think of us or the head of the federal reserve, It's what their families and their friends down at the bar are going to think of them.

Don't work for your mind, make your mind work for you.

When you look in the mirror what do you see? Do you see the real you, or what you have been conditioned to believe is you?

You don't need to find an "enlightened one" to tell you what to think - you are an enlightened one. We all are.

You're a bigger star in a bigger movie. If you don't like the part, change the script.

Awal zaan resto jahan. First yourself, then the universe.

I didn't give you this life, honey. They took to you because of who you are. You gave yourself this life.

If you don't have your own opinion...than you have somebody else's.

first, that co-created relationships of attachment are the key context for development; second, that preverbal experience makes up the core of the developing self; and third, that the stance of the self toward experience predicts attachment security better than the facts of personal history themselves.