Quotes About Self

Dorothy Corkille Briggs

Real change will come when you focus on yourself - not on changing him, Real change comes when you are willing and able to state your claim on what you are and are not willing to live with. Just remember to let him in on it

We believe that the fundamental sexual unit is one person; adding more people to that unit may be intimate, fun, and companionable but does not complete anybody.

all life is conscious, but it is not conscious of being conscious

Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.

If I wasn't such a bad woman on the page, I couldn't be such a good woman in life.

Absolutely. Dash and Dash have become the best of friends with himselves.

Who are you?" he whispered.

Nathan Verhelst,

The myth of individuality made capitalism possible and has sustained it to this day.

One of the staples of discussion about basic aesthetic principles is that art has to exist for its own self and cannot be prostituted to advance any particular cause or point of view. Perfect nonsense, of course, but that doesn't keep it from being repeated ad nauseam.

I became much happier when I realized I shouldn't depend solely on my career for my sense of self. So I developed other interests and surrounded myself with a small group of friends I could trust.

Like the trees and winds and waters, we pray because we are here - not to change the world, but to change ourselves. Because it is when we change ourselves....that the world is changed.

The conscious is a theatre with a single seat...

Today you are you, that's truer than true. No one alive is youer than you.

Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of him self.

They tell me there are many gods, for god is in each of us

3 Una mente "aprisionada" no es libre porque está poseída, o refrenada, por sí misma.

De esta forma se puede afirmar que el yo tiene una existencia real desde el punto de vista relativo pero irreal desde una perspectiva absoluta.

La sensación de un yo podría estar relacionada con este patrón, de tal forma que se comprobaría que la coherencia global de una serie de modos de pensamiento es interpretada como el yo. De acuerdo con lo anterior, el yo es un patrón resultante de un proceso y nunca un objeto concreto.

La sintaxis de los procesos mentales, asociada a la experiencia del yo, es un proceso, por lo que la tesis de este libro conceptualiza al yo como una idea que se ve reforzada.

La sensación de que el yo es permanente se deriva de la existencia de patrones coherentes que son recurrentes y de gran duración temporal. La recurrencia, predictibilidad y coherencia temporal de estos patrones se interpreta como evidencia de que existe un yo fijo y permanente, cuando, en realidad, solamente se trata de un proceso con ciertas características invariantes pero nunca con una existencia concreta e inamovible.

La observación del yo coloca a quien la ejerce en un cuerpo correlacionado de mayor abstracción que el yo identificado con cualquiera de sus contenidos. De hecho, la posibilidad de percatarse de los contenidos de los pensamientos, sin identificarse con ellos, es acceder a un cuerpo correlacionado de mayor jerarquía.

To live is to be among men, and to be among men is to struggle, a struggle not only with them but with oneself; with their passions, but also with one's own.