Quotes About Self

I, the lone inhabitant of my body and life, am inescapably large to myself, but also ridiculously, inconceivably small.

People don't change who they are. They only change what they do with it.

You have to live with your mind your whole life.

It's easy to be yourself in the dark.

I realize how depraved it was to instill false guilt in an innocent child's conscience, causing a distorted image of life, God, & self, leaving little if any feeling of personal worth.

Part of what the imagination does later in life is it's linking you not just to who you are now but to all the people you've been.

Healthy vanity sweeps through life. Sickly vanity lies in bed.

Trying to use the power of yoga to improve your life, this is a terrible mistake. Because all you are doing is binding yourself more. You're putting more of your attention into the transient world.

Life is just masturbation in a sense, mentally. What people do is they just create a world out of their self-reflection.

It is good not to think of karma as an alien force that is outside of yourself. You are the generator of karma. Karma is the energy patterns that emanate from your life.

When the spirit is understood, then life becomes not at all common, but a constant magical circus in which you see yourself reflected in all forms and all formlessness.

Life, and you, and I, and all of us together became for a while interesing to ourselves once more.

you can be what you want to be

what takes place in the act of faith is the destruction and renewal of the self.

You have to be mindful of your people without becoming forgetful of yourself….

Self doubt is like a disease. And if it gets out of control it becomes self fulfilling.

Man is his own star and the soul that can render an honest and perfect man commands all light, all influence, all fate.

A man without decision of character can never be said to belong to himself . . . . He belongs to whatever can make captive of him.

The human race is unimportant. It is the self that must not be betrayed." "I suppose one could say that Hitler didn't betray his self." "You are right. He did not. But millions of Germans did betray their selves. That was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be evil. But that millions had not the courage to be good.

I am infinitely strange to myself.

As my father stretches to understand my journey I realize that maybe you can't change the world by your actions alone, but you can change yourself. And when you do, the world around you may change by attempting to understand you, as we all try to understand each other.

Where we are is who we are, Miss Moore always pointin out. But

When I started for the head of navigation a friend asked me what I expected to find on the trip. "Some more of myself," I answered. And, after all, that is the Great Discovery.

The reader is invited to ask him-or herself, Is it possible that I am seeing the world from inside a System? Am I, unbeknownst to myself, a Systems-person? The answer is always, Yes. The relevant question is, simply, Which System?