Quotes About Self

What was I supposed to do? Was I meant to be nothing but God? I had tried the God business and found it too limited. It was a job for a simple-minded egomaniac. There had to be something else for me to do – something more meaningful, more expressive of my true self. I am convinced of it! That is my problem, and that is the question I ask of you: What am I to do with myself?

What's personality anyway? A mask of emotions, superimposed on the body and the intellect.

Indragostita de propria-i nenorocire

One bright afternoon, near a place called Krek, Converse had watched with astonishment as the world of things transformed itself into a single overwhelming act of murder. In a manner of speaking he had discovered himself. Himself was a soft shell-less quivering thing encased in a hundred and sixty pounds of pink sweating meat. It was real enough. It tried to burrow into the earth. It wept.

We tell ourselves our own stories, selectively, in order to keep our sense of self intact.

The mask of self-deception was no longer a mask for me, it was a part of me. Night lifted it, laying bare the stifled truth below; but there was no one to see except myself

When children are taught that personal wants and desires are selfish, there is a resultant guilt reaction and movement toward a state of selflessness. However, our wants and desires make up a major part of our identity. When they are suppressed, we don't know who we are, and without a sense of self, we lose compassion for others (Firestone, 1987b, 1997a).

Since every member of the family has to conform to the illusions of parental or family love, this process also demands that the child distort his or her sense of reality and of the self.

The purpose of the false self is to defend against pain - not deal with reality

I tell lies somewhere else, but not here, not in front of myself.

Sadly, without some form of therapy or intervention, individuals like Denise often don't make the connection between their childhood trauma and their adult-life sexual problems. Due to this lack of understanding and association, many of these folks think of themselves as

That experience allowed me to see this therapeutic principle in action," Stanton said. "You just can't organize yourself without a connection to another human being, and you can't make that connection if you embalm yourself with drugs.

Completely give up even concentration, and hold nothing in your mind: you are verily the Self, and therefore free.

Find the Source of this false I: then it will disappear.

The sage is not unconscious; he is fully aware of the Self.

You are the One seer of all: unattached, formless and witness of all you are. The Self is witness, all-pervading, One, actionless, desireless. Know the Self as the witness of all, and Consciousness itself—you are not the body, nor is the body yours, nor are you the doer. You are the eternal Witness, and free.

One suffers because of the idea that the body is "I". Misery

the "I" is first created, and then the world.

Only grief is possible when one thinks of oneself as a body.

hereafter, is see that you do not identify your self with them.

If this tendency to identify itself with objects is destroyed, the ego merges into its Source.

For those in the Self, there is no [separate] seeing—only being.

The Self is all-pervasive; all "else" is absent.

Once the I-thought has completely died, there is not even the thought of "I am Self." [There is only Be-ing.]