Quotes About Self

As long as one feels that he is the doer, he cannot escape from the wheel of births."—Buddha

We end up going through hell in meditation to quiet our mind, not because somebody says, "You ought to quiet your mind," but because our agitated mind is driving us up the wall, and it's keeping us from getting on with it.

All acts of healing are ultimately our selves healing our Self. -Ram Dass

Faith is not a belief. Beliefs are in the head. Faith is in the heart. Faith comes from within you. You cultivate it by opening your spiritual heart and quieting your mind until you feel your identity with your deeper Self. That opening to the deeper Self, when you have quieted your mind. comes through grace. The qualities of that Self are peace, joy, compassion, wisdom, and love.

Meditation raises the question: Who are we really?

The abstract point of this is that we don't do anything to anybody else, anyway. Actually, people do things to themselves, and we are merely the environment in which they do it when they are ready.

The eyes of a saint are always concentrated on the Supreme Self. The minute he is aware of himself, sainthood is lost. – Neem Karoli Baba

but who's minding the store?" When I could finally focus on the question, I realized that although everything by which I knew myself, even my body and this life itself, was gone, still I was fully aware!

Who you think you are will always be frightened of change. But it doesn't make any difference to who you truly are.

I am the thought I.

You are my connection to the place in myself where I am love, and I can't get there without you.

One's longing is not so much there for sense-gratification, profit and self-preservation, instead one's karma is there for no other purpose than inquiring after the Absolute Truth.

God cannot give us happiness apart from Himself, because there is no such thing." —C. S. Lewis

Style, on the other hand, is the art of bringing your defining individual features to the fore, regardless of what others might expect or find acceptable:

Chesterton says, in essence, that there is a dislocation of humility in our times. We have become more confident in who we are and less in what we believe. Our pride has moved us from the organ of conviction to the organ of ambition, when it is intended to be the other way around. In short, our confidence should be in our message and not in ourselves.

Thomas Merton once said, "We cannot be at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we cannot be at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God.

Sometimes in the shadows of one's self lie the problems, and in the shadows of one's shaping lie the answers.

Seeking new sensations while violating the sacred first desecrates the self and finally destroys the sensation.

The day that each person willingly accepts himself or herself for who he or she is and acknowledges the uniqueness of God's framing process marks the beginning of a journey to seeing the handiwork of God in each life.

Truth is stranger than fiction because we have made fiction to suit ourselves.

The part of you that thinks of itself as human, is not human - (Maharaj Nisargadatta)

I'm really alive! he thought. I never knew it before, or if I did I don't remember!

I'm not anyone, I'm just myself; whatever I am, I am something, and now I'm something you can't help.

But no man's a hero to himself.