Quotes About Self

Your true Self, which is your spirit, your soul, is completely free of those things. It is immune to criticism, it is unfearful of any challenge, and it feels beneath no one. And yet, it is also humble and feels superior to no one, because it recognizes that everyone else is the same Self, the same spirit in different disguises.

La mente, y no el cerebro, es la fuente de la conciencia.

Tu cerebro no puede hacer lo que cree que no puede hacer.

Al igual que dos pájaros posados en el mismo árbol, que son íntimos amigos, el ego y el yo moran en el mismo cuerpo. El primer pájaro come las frutas dulces y amargas de la vida, mientras que el otro lo observa en silencio.

The idol of yourself is the mother of all idols.

With all its worship of material success, society has missed a profound truth: success depends on who you are, not what you do.

Ego-based power will only last as long as those things last. As soon as the title, the job, the money go away, so does the power. Self-power, on the other hand, is permanent, because it is based on the knowledge of the Self.

What you most hate is what you most deny in yourself. What you most love is what you most wish for in yourself.

Belief systems are complex—they hold together the self we want to present to the world. It is much simpler not to have beliefs, which means being open to life as it comes your way, going with your own inner intelligence instead of with stored judgments.

The problem with time is that we are always making it personal.

The dividing line between what happens automatically and what happens voluntarily isn't fixed. Choices matter, and thus the healing self comes into play. On its own the body knows how to survive; it's up to us to teach it how to thrive.

Éste es nuestro mejor yo, el yo que no tiene ego, ese pequeño fragmento del Universo que actúa a través de nosotros para el bien de todos.

Every person has two selves, a lower self that is born of flesh and tied to the illusions of the material world, and a higher self that is eternal and unborn, with no attachments at all. The lower self craves pleasure, the higher self knows only bliss. The lower self cringes from pain, the higher self has never felt pain. If that was true, then Gautama had to find his higher self or be lost in the endless quicksand of the mind's deceptions.

The field of pure potentiality is your own Self.

They lost the connection to their bodies, to nature, and to themselves.

When we experience the power of the Self, there is an absence of fear, there is no compulsion to control, and no struggle for approval or external power.

Nunca habrá otra perfección que la de ahora. Canto a mí mismo, WALT WHITMAN

The scenery changes, the seer remains the same. Your body is just the place your memories call home.

Ruling the world is child's play. To truly rule your soul is like ruling creation. It is above even the gods.

Look at the forest," Buddha replied. "We walk through it every day and believe it to be the same forest. But not a single leaf is the same as yesterday. Every particle of soil, every plant and animal, is constantly changing. You cannot be enlightened as the separate person you see yourself to be because that person has already disappeared, along with everything else from yesterday.

Your body is just the place your memory calls home.

I realise that a certain school of thought says that who we are is something we construct for ourselves. We build our self out of what we think we remember.

Human capital is of course much more equally distributed than ownership of factories or ships. We own ourselves, even if we are poor in stocks and bonds. Focusing on financial wealth is therefore misleading.

Although personal calling I sense—who am I? even if I am, I don't know.