Quotes About Self

When I see I am nothing, that is wisdom. When I see I am everything, that is love. My life is a movement between these two. —NISARGADATTA MAHARAJ

Delusion happens when we see all that is from the viewpoint of the self. Enlightenment happens when we see ourselves from the viewpoint of the things in nature.

anything that crosses swords with our entitled ego is a powerful source of transformation and inner evolution.

we see the world as we are, not as the world is.

A man is sometimes lost in the dust of his own raising.

He had read once that God was like a mirror — the mirror never changed but the people who looked into it all saw something different. Unfortunately most people looked in and viewed their own face, confident it had been created in God's own image.

Waiting for an angel. Someone to ameliorate. Lift me over difficulties. I stop looking. My angel is me.

No man will work for your interests unless they are his.

If I could believe in myself, why not give other improbabilities the benefit of the doubt?

All of us take pride and pleasure in the fact that we are unique, but I'm afraid that when all is said and done the police are right: it all comes down to fingerprints.

I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.

Deep down, you know you're him.

autobiography is concerned with the consciousness of its creator in the process of creating himself.

A vegan is actually talking about himself when he talks about animals. It's nothing to do with animals and is all about his personal psychology and issues. There are no vegan animals, that's for sure!

as far as Buzz is concerned, the universe is two things: me and not me.

If you ever feel the person in your life needs rescuing, particularly from him or herself - beware. Codependency is rearing its head again.

It was as if he'd arrived at the center of himself after a long journey through the wilderness of his own soul.

the Indian "must be imbued with the exalting egotism of American civilization so that he will say 'I' instead of 'We,' and 'This is mine' instead of 'This is ours.

Your response is your own. It is created by no one else but you.

Displaced by darkness, you lie flat on your back, putting the world behind you, and stare at the moon, the embarrassing moon, with nothing to offer it, no ebb or flow, no wolfish transformations except this lunacy you keep to yourself

You should stay alive As often as possible and keep yourself open to anything out of place and everything with nowhere else to go, to carry what's left of your voice out and beyond, into, over, and under, past, within, outside, between, among, across, along, and up and around and to be beside yourself when the spirit moves you…

It doesn't matter what we choose. It simply matters what we are.

Risero entrambi, ricordandomi che sapevo parlare, quando ero dell'umore giusto. I miei ostacoli erano spesso miei, appunto.

Anger is the deepest form of compassion, for another, for the world, for the self, for a life, for the body, for a family and for all our ideals, all vulnerable and all, possibly about to be hurt. Stripped of physical imprisonment and violent reaction, anger is the purest form of care, the internal living flame of anger always illuminates what we belong to, what we wish to protect and what we are willing to hazard ourselves for.