Quotes About Self

Every person's life is theirs by right. An individual's life can and must belong only to to himself, not to any society or community, or he is then but a slave.

Society is only possible on these terms, that the individual finds therein a strengthening of his own ego and his own will.

If a man can say 'My life is more important than my country,' that man has succeeded in freeing himself from the chains of society!

To a society that inarticulately and thoughtlessly takes itself to be divine, Hegel says, Yes, we are indeed divine, and philosophy can show how this is both possible and necessary.

True freedom is always spiritual. It has something to do with your innermost being, which cannot be chained, handcuffed, or put into a jail.

Know that all healing forces are within, not without! The applications from without are merely to create within a coordinating mental and spiritual force.

A materialistic person is ruthless with other people but kind to himself. A spiritual person is ruthless with himself but kind to everybody else.

All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.

The only reason why you are unhappy is because you are trying to be happy.

Never underestimate your power to change yourself; never overestimate your power to change others.

The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.

There is one grand lie - that we are limited. The only limits we have are the limits we believe.

You are made in the image of what you desire.

Contrary to what they tell you... You are not a limited material being.

Everything in your life is there as a vehicle for your transformation. Use it!

Within my body are all the sacred places of the world, and the most profound pilgrimage I can ever make is within my own body.

The moment you become aware of the ego in you, it is strictly speaking no longer the ego, but just an old, conditioned mind-pattern. Ego implies unawareness. Awareness and ego cannot coexist.

The Ego is a veil between humans and God'." "In prayer all are equal.

If you knew the immensity of what it means to be human, you would not talk about God or Heaven.

Your own life is the way it is because of you, and the choices you have made - or failed to make.

Any path is only a path, and there is no affront to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you.

There's no beauty that you could perceive or create if it were not already within you.

Until you know that life is interesting - and find it so - you haven't found your soul.

To start from the self and try to understand all things is delusion. To let the self be awakened by all things is enlightenment.