Quotes About Self

F]or so many people, a large part of their sense of self is intimately connected with their problems. Once this has happened, the last thing they want is to become free of them; that would mean loss of self.

Ego implies complete unawareness of the dimension of space

Note: The mind is a superb interment if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately, it is not so much that you use your mind wrongly -- you usually don't use it at all. It uses you. This is the disease. You believe that you are your mind. This is the delusion. The instrument has taken you over.

Whatever you identify with turns into ego.

The ego is always on guard against any kind of perceived diminishment. Automatic ego-repair mechanisms come into effect to restore the mental form of "me." When someone blames or criticizes me, that to the ego is a diminishment of self, and it will immediately attempt to repair its diminished sense of self through self-justification, defense, or blaming.

You are that awareness, disguised as a person.

Be the ever-alert guardian of your inner space.

It is not so much that you use your mind wrongly — you usually don't use it at all. It uses you. This is the disease. You believe that you are your mind. This is the delusion. The instrument has taken you over.

If you cannot be at ease with yourself when you are alone, you will seek a relationship to cover up your unease. It will then reappear in some other form within the relationship, and you will probably hold your partner responsible for it. In the state of enlightenment, you *are* yourself. There is no self that you need to protect, defend, or feed anymore. When you are enlightened, there is one relationship you no longer have: the relationship with yourself.

Your outer journey may contain a million steps; your inner journey only has one: the step you are taking right now. As

You have already understood the basic mechanics of the unconscious state: identification with the mind, which creates a false self, the ego, as a substitute for your true self rooted in Being.

listen to the voice in your head, be there as the witnessing presence.

In other words, the content of the ego may change; the mind structure that keeps it alive does not.

Ego takes everything personally. Emotion arises, defensiveness, perhaps even aggression.

The mind absorbs all your consciousness and transforms it into mind stuff. You cannot stop thinking. Compulsive thinking has become a collective disease. Your whole sense of who you are is then derived from mind activity.

To put it more accurately, it is not so much that you use your mind wrongly —you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.

You have a name, a past, a life situation, a future. But in one essential respect, you are not the same person you were before

When forms that you had identified with, that gave you your sense of self, collapse or are taken away, it can lead to a collapse of the ego, since ego is identification with form.

the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as constantly under threat.

The ego is not only the unobserved mind, the voice in the head which pretends to be you, but also the unobserved emotions that are the body's reaction to what the voice in the head is saying.

Complaining is one of the ego's favorite strategies for strengthening itself. Every complaint is a little story the mind makes up that you completely believe in. Whether you complain aloud or only in thought makes no difference. Some

Identification with the mind gives it more energy; observation of the mind withdraws energy from it.

There's only one thing worse than the egoic me, and that's the egoic us.

El comienzo de la libertad es la comprensión de que usted no es la entidad que lo posee, el que piensa. Saber esto le permite observar a esa entidad.