Quotes About Self

To speak about this universal force that will lead us beyond on the last horizon of our known self toward a wiser, more loving, more luminous states of being, we do not need to invent a new language. But we do need to listen to the old, the ancient one, not with our jaded minds, but with our awakened souls.

Una gran fuente de sabiduría es la intuición, nuestro conocimiento interior.

Intuition, not intellect, is the "open sesame" of yourself. —ALBERT EINSTEIN

If you take care of your mind, you take care of the world.

No eres tu cuenta bancaria, ni tu ambición. Tampoco eres ese montón de arcilla fría con una gran panza que dejas atrás cuando mueres. Ni eres tu colección ambulante de desórdenes de personalidad. Tú eres espíritu, eres amor.   ANNE LAMOTT

Ésa es una de las cosas que no podemos decidir: cómo van a llamarnos los demás. Solamente sabemos cómo vamos a llamarnos a nosotros mismos.

Even if you are a woman who achieves the ultimate and becomes like a man, you will still always be like a woman. And as long as womanhood is thought of as something to escape from, something less than manhood, you will be thought less of, too.

Jeg er jeg. En viktig person. Den viktigste i hele verden. Men jeg kan ikke være/kan ikke bli jeg uten andre. I så fall er jeg/blir jeg ingenting – usynlig – og det vil jeg ikke være. I forhold til deg – den viktigste personen i hele verden. Kyss meg!

Og jeg gikk derfra i et grått bilde, og hørte kanskje en rope navnet mitt like over og like under tretoppene. Men hvordan bevege seg i sitt eget navn når det uavlatelig falt fra hverandre, dag for dag krympet det og ble mindre og mindre og mer og mer puslete.

Live the life you want.

A man is the origin of his action.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Psychotherapy is about an internal process of transformation. Gender therapy is not simply about surgery or hormones or even transition. It is not really about 'becoming' something as much as it is about allowing the false parts of the self to recede so that an authentic self can emerge.

The past defines us as much as the present. By never knowing my past, I was never sure of who I was. Because mine was missing, I never felt whole.

Sincerity" is detrimental to one's job, until the rules of salesmanship and business become a "genuine" aspect of oneself. —C. Wright Mills

When you abandon everything you can believe in, you're abandoning yourself. As if you've never existed. But that takes a long time. If you're no longer in control of your own life, can you at least be in control of its end?

Improvement begins with I.

Consciousness of self— the general realization that I exist independently of the circumstances of the moment—marks man's first great effort of abstraction; the detachment of the various spiritual activities from their function in the totality of his life and the unity of his world view is a second abstraction.

alters/annihilates all pretensions of individual

Is dat niet uiteindelijk de enige opdracht van de mens? Je moet worden wat de anderen in je wensen te zien.

Zij was ziek, en ik was de ziekte. Dat is het verhaal. Andere mensen kunnen zeggen: "Ik ben ziek. Ik moet genezen." Of: "Ik kan niet genezen, hoe graag ik dat ook zou willen." Maar de ziekte kan dat niet. Dat is het verschil tussen het bijvoeglijk en het zelfstandig naamwoord. De ziekte moet ziekte blijven. Ik ben het zelfstandig naamwoord.

In Acharya's words, "The moment you realize the Self, you know that you are the Self, you are not the body. You know that you are the infinite Truth. That recognition, that realization is sannyasa.

As one management scholar puts it, "Employees who do not successfully traverse this period experience ongoing identity instability; they are cognitively and emotionally consumed by the loss, stagnating in their inability to let go of the old self and/or to embrace the new and changed work self."[7

Sharing weakness is hard because it is the ultimate act of subversion against your special, objectified self. You won't go down without a fight!