Quotes About Self

Somehow he had catapulted himself beyond the world's value system. But this very fact lay upon him an awesome responsibility to maintain the illusions of other men.

Happiness consists of living in the dailyness of life and not knowing how happy you are. True happiness comes of not knowing you're happy, it's an animal serenity, something between contentment and joy, a steadiness of the belonged self in the world.

Hey, don't be mean, 'cause remember: wherever you go. . . there you are.

Wherever you go, there you are.. (Buckaroo Banzai)

Wherever you go, there you are.

Because Freedom is the most important thing on life, let me Be.

You can easily recognize that something is coming from Ego because when you get it, it doesn't satisfy you.

The moment you become aware of the ego in you, it is strictly speaking no longer the ego, but just an old, conditioned mind-pattern. Ego implies unawareness. Awareness and ego cannot coexist.

Authentic human interactions become impossible when you lose yourself in a role.

Defining yourself through thought is limiting yourself.

The ego wants to want more than it wants to have.

Doing is never enough if you neglect Being.

You are awareness, disguised as a person.

The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction.

If you identify with a mental position, then if you are wrong, your mind-based sense of self is seriously threatened with annihilation. So you as the ego cannot afford to be wrong. To be wrong is to die. Wars have been fought over this, and countless relationships have broken down.

There is nothing that strengthens the ego more than being right. Being right is identification with a mental position - a perspective, an opinion, a judgement, a story. For you to be right, of course, you need someone else to be wrong, as so the ego loves to make wrong in order to be right.

The mind unconsciously loves problems because they give you an identity of sorts.

When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself.

If you really want to know your mind, the body will always give you a truthful reflection, so look at the emotion, or rather feel it in your body. If there is an apparent conflict between them, the thought will be the lie, the emotion will be the truth.

This is most people's reality: As soon as something is perceived, it is named, interpreted, compared with something else, liked, disliked, or called good or bad by the phantom self, the ego.

The ultimate truth of who you are is not I am this or I am that, but I Am.

True love has no opposite. If your "love" has an opposite, then it is not love but a strong ego-need for a more complete and deeper sense of self, a need that the other person temporarily meets.

every person carries the seed of enlightenment within

You are not your mind