Quotes About Self

One thinks one's something unique and wonderful at the center of the universe. But in fact one's merely a slight delay in the ongoing march of entropy.

What could begin to deny self, if there were not something in man different from self? William Law

For the moment the interfering neurotic who, in waking hours, tries to run the show, was blessedly out of the way.

After all, what is an individual?

And while you were paying attention to these things, you were momentarily delivered from daydreams, from memories, from anticiaptions, from silly notions - from all the symptoms of you. Isn't tasting me? ... I'd say it was halfway between me and not-me. Tasting is not-me doing something for the whole organism. And at the same time tasting is me being conscious of what's happening. And that's the point of our chewing-grace - to make the me more conscious of what the not-me is up to.

For Persons are selves and, in one respect at least, I was now a Not- self, simultaneously perceiving and being the Not-self of the things around me. To this new-born Not- self, the behavior, the appearance, the very thought of the self it had momentarily ceased to be, and of other selves, its one-time fellows, seemed not indeed distasteful (for distastefulness was not one of the categories in terms of which I was thinking), but enormously irrelevant.

I am I, and wish I wasn't.

Was and will make me ill, I take a gramme and only am. (Lenina)

The self, however, is a living organism, and refuses to be denied without a struggle.

Radije ?u ostati ono što jesam,a ne netko drugi,ma koliko on veseo bio.

I'd rather be myself," he said. "Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly." "A

What we know depends also on what, as moral beings, we choose to make ourselves.

I'd rather be myself...Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.

I, real I? But where, but how, but at what price?

The mind is its own place; she carried her hell about with her.

That which had made Helmholtz so uncomfortably aware of being himself and all alone was too much ability.

Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust themselves, to walk in liberty.

But I do, he insisted. It makes me feel as though … he hesitated, searching for words with which to express himself, as though I were more me, if you see what I mean. More on my own, not so completely a part of something else. Not just a cell in the social body. Doesn't it make you feel like that, Lenina?

I'd rather be myself," he said. "Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.

But there's a hard core of sense. If you're a Tantrik, you don't renounce the world or deny its value; you don't try to escape into a Nirvana apart from life, as the monks of the Southern School do. No, you accept the world, and you make use of it; you make use of everything you do, of everything that happens to you, of all the things you see and hear and taste and touch, as so many means to your liberation from the prison of yourself.

Dünyay? deÄŸiÅŸtirmek istedim, anlad?m ki kesin olarak deÄŸiÅŸtirebileceÄŸiniz tek ÅŸey bizzat kendinizdir.

man's obsessive consciousness of, and insistence on being, a separate self is the final and most formidable obstacle to the unitive knowledge of God.

Prefiero ser yo mismo. Yo y desdichado, antes que cualquier otro y jocundo.

Holiness, on the contrary, is the total denial of the separative self, in its creditable no less than its discreditable aspects, and the abandonment of the will to God.