Quotes About Self

What you really long for is a deep intimacy with your own experience—the deepest acceptance of every thought, every sensation, every feeling. And that cannot come from outside of yourself.

the one who wrote this book is the one who is reading it

The life you are trying to understand is identical with the 'you' that is trying to understand it.

No matter how you travel, it's still you going.

What we sincerely believe regarding ourselves is true for us. — Orison Swett Marden

The best person I know is Myself.

hot pink looks cute on only janet which is MEEEEEEE!!!

And when you give up your dreams, an important part of who you are dies with them, and so does that which makes you unique.

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be." —Ralph Waldo Emerson (attrib.)

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be." —Ralph Waldo Emerson

CONTROL MYSELF?!! I'm a MONSTER! Monsters don't control themselves! That's the whole IDEA!

Brute force never changes people. People need to change themselves.

If you were me, which I am,

What you make of the song or what the world will make of it is of little concern when contrasted with the joy that I've talked about many times now—the joy of disappearing long enough to find something you didn't know you had inside you.

I told him point-blank so there would be no mistake: This person he wanted to know better did not exist; I was who I seemed to be from the outside. That would never change.

Am I a person or a weapon?" Always he wanted to know that he was a person. He just kept giving me different choices so one time I might slip up and say, "You're not a person." "You are a person. But like a person, you can be a weapon, too.

I really wanted to lose myself. People my entire life have told me I am too much in control, but that has never been the case. I have never truly been in control, have never wanted control.

I believed that it might be pulling these different impressions of itself from my mind and projecting them back at me, as a form of camouflage. To thwart the biologist in me, to frustrate the logic left in me.

Wick never believed he was a person, was continually being undone by that. Borne was always trying to be a person because I wanted him to be one, because he thought that was right. We all just want to be people, and none of us know what that really means

It is easy to crush an enemy outside oneself but impossible to defeat an enemy within.

Place this salt in water and bring it here tomorrow morning. The boy did. Where is that salt? his father asked? I do not see it. Sip here. How does it taste? Salty, father. And here? And there? I taste salt everywhere. It is everywhere, though we see it not. Just so, dear one, the Self is everywhere, within all things, although we see it not. There is nothing that does not come from it. It is the truth; it is the Self supreme. You are that, Shvetaketu. You Are That.

It is the intense pain that destroys a person's self and world, a destruction experienced spatially as either the contraction of the universe down to the immediate vicinity of the body or as the body swelling to fill the entire universe.

codependent behaviors. Generally these are behaviors that are care taking of others to the point where you and your needs are lost.

may feel obligated to keep a low profile in an attempt to establish some sense of harmony. Unfortunately, at the same time, you may also be giving up opportunities to express your opinions and assert your needs.