Quotes About Self

Love isn't really about what we think of the other person, but how we feel about ourselves when we are with that person.

I've never worried about age.

This is exactly who I was meant to be.

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

I was escaping from Nature and at last becoming myself, that Other whom I was aspiring to be in the eyes of others.

We do not do what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are—that is the fact.

You are -- your life, and nothing else.

My thought is me: that's why I can't stop. I exist because I think… and I can't stop myself from thinking. At this very moment - it's frightful - if I exist, it is because I am horrified at existing. I am the one who pulls myself from the nothingness to which I aspire.

Life has no meaning a priori… It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.

It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.

The ego is like a clever monkey, which can co-opt anything, even the most spiritual practices, so as to expand itself. (155)

I believe that social media's greatest gift is in providing every person the forum to be themselves, speak their heart & soul.

The fundamental conflict in the spiritual quest is that ego desires spiritual enlightenment, but ego can never achieve spiritual enlightenment. Self cannot achieve no-self. That's why anyone who wants to sell enlightenment must first reduce it to more manageable proportions; to something ego can achieve. Enlightenment Lite: Less demanding, feels great. Enlitenment.

Self is ego and ego resides exclusively in the dreamstate. If you want to break free of the dreamstate, you must break free of self, not stroke it to make it purr or groom it for some imagined brighter future.

Karma and hell and suffering aren't things in their own right but disturbances in this flimsy substance of false self. The problem isn't in the disturbing things but in the thing disturbed. The thing disturbed is the false thing and if it weren't there, there'd be nothing to be disturbed. Nothing to get pierced or burned or dried out. Nothing to be wounded or slain.

What do you know? The answer is: I Am.

All fear is ultimately fear of no-self. "And what is enlightenment," I ask Sarah, "but a swan dive into the abyss of no-self?

Truth is a uniquely challenging pursuit because the very thing that wants it is the only thing in the way of it.

Yes, I have an ego and it looks similar to the one I dropped to, as you say, achieve nirvana. But then I came back all enlightened and everything, and I needed something to wear. I look around and there's my discarded ego lying in a pile on the floor so I slip into it and here I am.

Infinity is beautiful; it destroys everything it touches. It annihilates all concepts, all beliefs, all sense of self. No teacher, teaching, book or practice could ever be as effective as simply allowing the thought of infinity to slowly devour you.

She doesn't get to be a healer because the gods bestow powers upon her, but through the prolonged, rigorous, all-consuming struggle of her own self-healing.

The fear of no-self is the mother of all fears, the one upon which all others are based. No fear is so small or petty that the fear of no-self isn't at its heart. All fear is ultimately fear of no-self.

I have a cycle that is not particularly cool, but it's a cycle: trash myself to reward myself.

I think there's a real joy in going to see movies when you discover them yourself.