Quotes About Self

Alas! it is not the renunciation of our past and future selves that is difficult; it is the steady denial of our present self which makes the disciple.

When do I get to say whatever I wish?" "When it pains you not to," her mother had replied. "What if I'm too scared?" "All the more reason to speak your mind.

L'identité n'est pas donnée une fois pour toutes, elle se construit et se transforme tout au long de l'existence.

En chacun de nous existe un Mr Hyde; le tout est d'empêcher que les conditions d'émergence du monstre ne soient rassemblées.

Ceux qui ne pourront pas assumer leur propre diversité se retrouveront parfois parmi les plus virulents des tueurs identitaires, s'acharnant sur ceux qui représentent cette part d'eux-mêmes qu'ils voudraient faire oublier. Une "haine de soi" dont on a vu de nombreux exemples à travers l'Histoire...

içimde gömülü olan baz? ÅŸeyleri o gece ona söylerken keÅŸfettim.

L'homme n'appartient ni à sa langue ni à sa race : il n'appartient qu'à lui-même, car c'est un être libre, c'est un être moral. »

Kansan sisin on sen kirjallisuudessa. Siinä se paljastaa intohimonsa, toiveensa, haaveensa, turhaumansa, uskomuksensa, maailmankatsomuksensa ja näkemyksensä itsestä ja muista, myös meistä itsestämme.

Be the observer of your own mind. Attune yourself with the unchanging Self.

Cultivate blessing. Bless yourself. Bless the whole world. Let it be full with love, peace, joy and happiness.

Deep down there is a rose in every heart.

Loving the Om (AUM) is loving yourself, your own Self. Om chanting is a creative art, not just mechanical repetition of a word.

Meditation is listening the song of the inner Soul, seeing the beauty of the inner Self, smelling the fragrance of the inner Spirit, experiencing the touch of the Divine inner energies and tasting the piercing sweetness of the inner God.

Our true nature is divine and eternal. Our true purpose of life is to awaken and realize that permanent divinity that is within us.

Searching outside of you is Samsara (the world). Searching within you leads to Nirvana.

Silence is the language of Om. We need silence to be able to reach our Self. Both internal and external silence is very important to feel the presence of that supreme Love.

Vipassana meditation is not just seeing the things inside. It is also seeing the seer.

Was this how a mutiny was sparked? In a moment of heedlessness, so that one became a stranger to the person one had been a moment before? Or was it the other way around? That this was when one recognized the stranger that one had always been to oneself; that all one's loyalties and beliefs had been misplaced?

I don't want to end my life, he said, but I'd rather end it while I am still myself, rather than become less and less of a person.

And that's how I outsmarted myself, changing our lives forever.

Fred rightly reasoned that if we accept ourselves we are better equipped to accept our neighbor.

In all the land there is only one you, possibly two, but seldom more than sixteen.

I won't be what I'm not. -Jing-mei

You have to approach God or whatever is there sideways, at an angle. Through dance or art or, okay, yoga, or breathing practices – something that opens the doorways of the senses, makes you accessible, because God isn't accessible. You are.