Quotes About Self

who are you? Consciousness that has become conscious of itself.

True salvation is fulfillment, peace, life in all its fullness. It is to be who you are, to feel within you the good that has no opposite, the joy of Being that depends on nothing outside itself.

Nonreaction to the ego in others is one of the most effective ways not only of going beyond ego in yourself but also of dissolving the collective human ego.

As you listen to the thought, you feel a conscious presence — your deeper self — behind or underneath the thought, as it were. The thought then loses its power over you and quickly subsides, because you are no longer energizing the mind through identification with it. This is the beginning of the end of involuntary and compulsive thinking.

watch out for any kind of defensiveness within you, What are you defending? an illusionary identity, an image in your mind,a fictional entity

The stronger the ego, the more time takes over your life. Almost every thought you think is then concerned with past or future, and your sense of self depends on the past for your identity and on the future for its fulfillment.

A victim identity is the belief that the past is more powerful than the present, which is the opposite of the truth. It is the belief that other people and what they did to you are responsible for who you are now, for your emotional pain or your inability to be your true self. The truth is that the only power there is contained within this moment: It is the power of your presence.

To be free of time is to be free of the psychological need of past for your identity and future for your fulfillment. It represents the most profound transformation of consciousness that you can imagine.

Koestler, The Ghost in the Machine

If all your problems or perceived causes of suffering or unhappiness were miraculously removed for you today, but you had not become more present, more conscious, you would soon find yourself with a similar set of problems or causes of suffering, like a shadow that follows you wherever you go. Ultimately, there is only one problem: the time-bound mind itself.

Así pues el único paso vital en su camino hacia la iluminación es este: aprenda a dejar de identificarse con su mente. Cada

The problems of the mind cannot be solved on the level of the mind.

Most of the time it is not you who speaks when you say or think "I" but some aspect of that mental construct, the egoic self. Once you awaken, you still use the word "I," but it will come from a much deeper place within yourself.

The unconscious compulsion to enhance one's identity through association with an object is built into the very structure of the egoic mind.

Moreover, as long as you are identified with your mind, the ego runs your life, as I pointed out earlier. Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as constantly under threat.

El mensaje de Eckhart es: el problema de la humanidad está profundamente arraigado en la mente misma. O más bien, en nuestra identificación errónea con nuestra mente.

The ego tends to equate having with Being: I have, therefore I am. And the more I have, the more I am. The ego lives through comparison. How you are seen by others turns into how you see yourself. If everyone lived in a mansion or everyone was wealthy, your mansion or your wealth would no longer serve to enhance your sense of self.

Las necesidades del ego son infinitas. Se siente vulnerable y amenazado y por lo tanto vive en un estado de miedo y de carencia.

La mayoría de los seres humanos están todavía en las garras del modo egótico de conciencia: identificados con su mente y dominados por ella. Si no se liberan de su mente a tiempo, serán destruidos por ella.

I'll just borrow confidence from a future version of myself.

P37- none of them could understand how a child could be so and backward in learning to care for itself.

To the people who told these stories all the universe was alive with the same kind of life they knew in themselves.

Why could one never do a natural thing without having to screen it behind a structure of artifice?

What are you going to do with your self now?'... 'I? said Fen. 'I shall pursue my orderly and dignified progress towards the grave.