Quotes About Self

Ego is the most important aspect of our life in the sense if we use it against the spaces between our hearts.

I responded to the gravity of an invisible moon at my core, and I undertook journeys I had not expected to take.

Let's leave his rank, then,—take the man himself:

Songez que les principes de votre vie sont en vous-même, et que le courroux de Monsieur Purgon est aussi peu capable de vous faire mourir que ses remèdes de vous faire vivre.

So my generation fell into the trap, internalizing the either/or as we thought of ourselves as 'hot' or 'cold' and falling victim, once again, to the terms by which our sex had been conveniently divided for so many years. To the degree that sex was the equivalent of the self, surrender to sex was to lose oneself, whereas abstinence would insure its safeguarding, if not its salvation (viv).

My name is Ty. Short for Wyatt. Wyatt Svenson. People just always call me Ty.

If you think you are powerless, then you are

Nothing that ever happens in life can take away the fact that I am me. So I have to go on being me.

Now that it was safe to drag their relationship out into the light and examine it mercilessly it was fantastic on what a thin basis they had proposed to build their life. Apart from physical attraction, there was nothing between them but fun and parties, and that was not entirely a taste in common. Life was like a jigsaw, but if you tried to fit the pieces together yourself, you generally got them wrong.

I was worried about my mom more than I was worried about the president. And then I was worried about the president, and then I was worried about myself.

Il gît, terrassé par ce qui transporte les autres, tellement éloigné de lui-même qu'il prend pour du désespoir ce qui n'est que de l'extase.

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Elles disent, si je m'approprie le monde, que ce soit pour m'en déposséder aussitôt, que ce soit pour créer des rapports nouveaux entre moi et le monde.

There is no possible fight for someone deprived of an identity, no internal motivation for fighting, since, although I can fight only with others, first I fight for myself.

WHAT is your name? WHAT is your quest? and WHAT is your favorite color?

The most difficult struggle of all is the one within ourselves. Let us not get accustomed and adjusted to these conditions. The one who adjusts ceases to discriminate between good and evil. He becomes a slave in body and soul. Whatever may happen to you, remember always: Don't adjust! Revolt against the reality!

Free is what every creature longs to be and has a right to be.

We see things not as they are, we see them as WE are.

I believe that even though each person has an individual and unique self, the self means nothing outside the context of community or meaningful contact with other people.

they sometimes affirm his identity without understanding his individuality

I still don't belong to anyone - I am mine.

Always remember, you are the best , because your character is the best.

experience. Direct perception into one's own experience allows a practitioner to become free of the concepts of self or no-self, dharmas or no-dharmas. This awareness or direct perception has meant, for practitioners, an expansion of self-imposed boundaries of "self " and a merging, so to speak, with the true or universal self. It cannot be cautioned too often that in pure experience, linguistic terms do not suffice. The Buddha also gives this warning in this passage.

Spiritual aspirants must diligently follow the teaching. Practicing devotion to God has the effect of turning the mind towards the Divine and this leads to purity of feeling and thinking. Essentially, spiritual practice is a worship of the Divinity within oneself.