Quotes About Self

When there is no one to "experience," where is there a question of an I? Only that which Is remains.

The "mind" is nothing but "thoughts"; and behind every thought, there is the primary thought, which is the I-thought.

As a spark proceeds from fire, "individuality" emanates from the Absolute Self.

There are no "others": the Self is the one and only reality.

When once you realize your own Self, and that there is nothing other than this Self, you will come to look upon the whole universe as the Self.

If you realize you are without form, that you are unlimited, what is there to be seen apart [a "separate" body]? There is no connection, during sleep, with the body, the senses, and the mind: on waking up, you identify yourself with them. All that you have to do, hereafter, is see that you do not identify your self with them.

The truth of one's own real nature is that it is an undivided oneness:

Nothing more can be predicated of the Self than its existence.

he is that Self. Then, only, can he view everything as a form of the Self.

A person who desires [something "apart"], identifies with the body.

Ramana says: "Love is not different from the Self…[in this sense] God is love…. Love itself is the actual form of God…. Call it pure bliss, God, or what you will.

In other words, if you were to build into the brain a component in charge of public relations, it would look something like the conscious self.

So form—the stuff the human body is made of—isn't really under our control. Therefore, says the Buddha, it must be the case that "form is not-self." We are not our bodies.

Certainly the prefrontal cortex is an important thing; I'm as proud of mine as the next guy.

The great American psychologist William James wrote, "Between what a man calls me and what he simply calls mine the line is difficult to draw." In that sense, he observed, "our immediate family is a part of ourselves. Our father and mother, our wife and babes, are bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh. When they die, a part of our very selves is gone.

And don't feel like you're committing a felony-level violation of Buddhist dogma just because you think of yourself as being a self.

Y tal vez eso es lo que es el «yo», lo que «tú» eres, una vez que se abandona la idea de yo: un tipo de forma de conciencia purificada.

what we call the "self" is in such constant causal interaction with its environment, is so pervasively influenced by the world out there

So if the conscious mind isn't in control, what is in control?

Y aunque no había transcurrido, yo percibía inmensos espacios de tiempo entre mi ayer taciturno y mi hoy vaciloso. Pensé: Ahora que todo ha cambiado, ¿quién soy yo dentro del amplio uniforme?

Yo no soy un perverso, soy un curioso de esta fuerza enorme que está en mí.

Loneliness is an aspect of natural human egotism.

When he went into the bathroom and looked at himself in the mirror, he thought his features were changing. I look like a gentleman, he said to himself sometimes. I look younger. I look like someone else

Does this mean that in some places I'm American and in some places I'm African American and in other places, by logical extension, I'm nobody?