Quotes About Self

The good news is that you may have created my past and screwed up my present, but you have no control over my future. You don't know me at all.

Yeah, there's stuff that really good fiction can do that other forms of art can't do as well. And the big thing, the big thing seems to be, sort of leapin' over that wall of self, and portraying inner experience. And setting up, I think, a kind of intimate conversation between two consciences.

We're a bundle of incompatible parts, and we make up stories about ourselves to disguise the fact. The mental unity of the individual is a fiction. There is simply, in the human machine, a multitude of loosely linked behaviour systems which take control of the body and participate in a common delusion of being one single self

We are free at last to believe in ourselves.

You don't have a god in you, you are one.

Why do we need to justify God's existence? He exists. We need to justify our own existence.

We are the gods of the atoms that make up ourselves but we are also the atoms of the gods that make up the universe.

He who begins by seeking God within himself may end by confusing himself with God.

When people are right with God, they are apt to be hard on themselves and easy on other people. But when they are not right with God, they are easy on themselves and hard on others.

I do not limit God by seeing limitation in myself. With God and myself all things are possible.

God is busy making you someone no one else has ever been.

If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

Let the God within you express itself through you in the world without.

There are three persons living in each of us: the one we think we are, the one other people think we are, and the one God knows we are!

You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.

To attribute to God, and not to self, whatever good one sees in oneself; but to recognize always that the evil is one's own doing, and to impute it on one's self.

The more conscious of God's presence the more I feel like being myself, the less conscious of His presence, the more I feel I need to prove myself.

...we should realize that there are three sources for our thoughts - God, the devil, and ourselves.

Humility is the displacement of self by the enthronement of God.

With the disappearance of God the Ego moves forward to become the sole divinity.

It's easier to have faith in yourself if you have faith in God.

Your best friend and worst enemy are both in this room right now. It's not your neighbor right or left - and it's not God or the devil - it's you.

Here is one of the best means to acquire humility; fix well in mind this maxim: One is as much as he is in the sight of God, and no more.

Seeing God without seeing the Self, one sees only mental image. Only he who has seen Himself has seen God, since he has lost individuality, and now sees nothing but God.