Quotes About Self

A single ego is an absurdly narrow vantage point from which to view the world.

There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt.

Thou hast no right but to do thy will... For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect.

Remember that unbalanced force is evil; that unbalanced severity is but cruelty and oppression; but that also unbalanced mercy is but weakness which would allow and abet Evil. Act passionately; think rationally; be Thyself.

The keystone… some have called God, some Brahma, some Zeus… some even IAO… but in truth, O seeker, it is Thy-SELF.

I became an entirely different animal. In fact, I've often thought that there isn't any I at all ; that we are simply the means of expression of something else; that when we think we are ourselves, we are simply the victims of a delusion.

MARSYAS:        Beware! Easily trips the big word dare. Each man's an Å'dipus, that thinks He hath the four powers of the Sphinx, Will, Courage, Knowledge, Silence. Son, Even the adepts scarce win to one! The Thoughts—they fall like rotten fruits. But to destroy the power that makes These thoughts—thy Self? A man it takes To tear his soul up by the roots! This is the mandrake fable, boy!

In the Wind of the mind arises the turbulence called I.

the definition of the Great Work itself, the aim of the Yogi [is] to consummate the marriage of all that he is with all that he is not, and ultimately to realise, insofar as the marriage is consummated, that what he is and what he is not are identical

No hay más Tierra Prometida que la que el hombre puede encontrar en sí mismo.

When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not.

I gradually became aware that my interiority was inseparable from my exteriority, that the geography of my city was the geography of my soul.

But the moment you point at a difference, you enter, regardless of age, an already existing system of differences, a network of identities, all of them ultimately arbitrary and unrelated to your intentions, none of them a matter of your choice. The moment you other someone, you other yourself. When I idiotically pointed at Almir's non-existent difference, I expelled myself from my raja.

Un giorno, che eravamo seduti in un parco, mi spiegò che tutti abbiamo una certa idea di noi stessi, magari appena abbozzata, confusa, ma alla fine siamo portati ad avere una certa idea di noi stessi, e la verità è che spesso quell'idea la facciamo coincidere con un certo personaggio immaginario in cui ci riconosciamo.

Yo soy una plaza. No llevo a ningún sitio: soy un sitio.

È stato allora che ho perso le mie ultime certezze. Ed è lì che ho finalmente trovato me stesso. Ma non l'ho riconosciuto. - Viscovitz camaleonte, p.106

I wish I wasn't me.

What is left of you once your clothes have had their say?

The size of one's house might bear a relationship to the size of one's opinion of oneself, but it had nothing to do with one's real worth.

One did not walk around the town with one's birth certificate stuck on one's back; why then should clothes have their labels on the outside? It was a very vulgar display, she felt

We were all just people who chose to call ourselves by curious things known as names, and the only significant difference between any of us lay in what we did with our lives.

Whom, then, to love? Whom to believe? Who is the only one that won't betray us? Who measures all deeds, all speeches obligingly by our own foot rule? Who does not sow slander about us? Who coddles us with care? To whom our vice is not so bad? Who never bores us? Unlike a futile phantom-seeker who wastes effort in vain- love your own self, my honorworthy reader. A worthy object! Nothing more amiable surely exists.

You interpret my heart, my nature, as you wish to believe it. In truth, I have no secret longing to be saved from myself.

but of course any time we become something other than ourselves, it is just death by another name.