Quotes About Self

The manifest ownership of mental contents by the integrated organism where they arise is the distinctive trait of a conscious mind.

The old self, in other words, is what we are by nature: slaves to sin. However, Paul says to the believers at Colossae, since you have become one with Christ you are no longer slaves to sin, for you have taken off the old man or old self that was enslaved to sin and have put on the new self

When a man cannot chose, he ceases to be a man.

All suffering is caused by my identifying myself with something, whether that something is within me or outside of me.

I don't identify with the feeling. "I" is not that feeling. "I" am not lonely, "I" am not depressed, "I" am not disappointed. Disappointment is there, one watches it. You'd be amazed how quickly it glides away. Anything you're aware of keeps changing; clouds keep moving. As you do this, you also get all kinds of insights into why clouds were coming in the first place.

You're never so ready to forget yourself as when you are happy.

The orchestra is within you and you carry it with you wherever you go. The things and people outside you merely determine what particular melody the orchestra will play. And when there is no one or nothing that has your attention the orchestra will play a music of its own; it needs no outside stimulation. You now carry in your heart a happiness that nothing outside of you can put there, and nothing can take away.

For in the death of the ego is freedom, peace, serenity, joy.

hay personas que, a pesar de encontrarse en las mismísimas condiciones en que tú te encuentras ahora, no sienten la menor inseguridad. Esas personas existen, y seguramente conoces a alguna. Consiguientemente, el problema no depende de la realidad exterior a ti, sino de ti mismo, de tu «programación».

This was Tony de Mello at his best, proclaiming the message of "awareness," seeing the light we are to ourselves and to others, recognizing we are better than we know.

They are controlled, so manipulated. They are unhappy people, they are miserable people. They don't enjoy life. They are constantly tense and anxious. Do you call that human? And do you know why that happens? Only one reason: They identified with some label. They identified the "I" with their money or their job or their profession. That was their error.

Segunda verdad: ¿de dónde te vino ese apego? No naciste con él, sino que brotó de una mentira que tu sociedad y tu cultura te han contado, o de una mentira que te has contado tú a ti mismo, a saber, que sin tal cosa o tal otra, sin esta persona o la de más allá, no puedes ser feliz.

The unaware life is not worth living.

Why else do any of this if not to become who we want to be?

Why is it so hard to transcend the identities assigned to us when we were young?

Hadn't the actors acted of their own volition?

It has taken him his whole life to accept himself, and he is surprised to understand that now that he can, he does not long for one more year, one more month: eighty-six years has been enough.

Dlaczego tak trudno siÄ™ uwolni? od to?samoÅ›ci, które nam przypisano, gdy byliÅ›my dzie?mi?

the only person who knows your path to greatness is you.

A man is not defined but un-defined by autonomy: he loses his skin.

A person's identity is not to be found in behavior...but in the capacity to keep a particular narrative going

On the one hand, they're monstrous egotists. Self-confidence, self-examination, self-hatred even … but it's all about self. All those hours on their own! And yet at the same time, they're genuinely altruistic. All they want to do is please other people. I've often thought it must demand a sort of deficiency to be a writer.

I prefer to use my name from your world.' he said. 'I'm just Matt'.

It occurred to him that Blakiston was an outcast. He was in exile from himself.