Quotes About Self

It is true self, since all conceptual elaboration in terms of self and non-self is totally stilled. It is true happiness, since [even] the aggregates of mental nature and their causes are reversed. It is permanence, since the cycle of existence and the state beyond pain are realized as one.

The [dharmakaya] is purity, since its nature is pure and [even] the remaining imprints are fully removed. It is true self, since all conceptual elaboration in terms of self and non-self is totally stilled. It is true happiness, since [even] the aggregates of mental nature and their causes are reversed. It is permanence, since the cycle of existence and the state beyond pain are realized as one.

The conceptual elaboration consisting of the belief in the existence of a self as it is imputed by the tirthikas and so on, and the conceptual elaboration consisting of the belief in the non-existence of a self as it is imputed by the shravakas and so on, have been totally stilled and pacified without any remainder. Thus it is the perfection of true self.

The source of sorrow is the pride of saying "I," It's fostered and increased by false belief in self. To this you may believe that there is no redress, But meditation on no-self will be the supreme way.

La parte triste acerca de mí es que me siento feliz cuando me necesitan.

But perhaps peace was not in a place but within one's self.

Never live your life to impress or depress but lead your life to success.

whatever it is, stay how you are

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Revolution is about change, and the first place the change begins is in yourself

Vous valez pour moi tout un public, car il y a un monde en vous.

My performances have finally caught up with my ego.

Much later, reflecting on Iago's dictum, "Put money in thy purse" she noted rather wryly, "I live on the capital of my mind").

Your future self is watching you right now through your memories.

Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.

I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self.

Tell them about how you're never really a whole person if you remain silent, because there's always that one little piece inside you that wants to be spoken out, and if you keep ignoring it, it gets madder and madder and hotter and hotter, and if you don't speak it out one day it will just up and punch you in the mouth from the inside.

If I had created myself, I would be taller, blond, and more well endowed, financially. I would have cast out spiders and bad-hair days. Therefore, and hence, I believe strongly in a Creator who not only gave me the gift, but the free will to create my own journey through life.

Have a belief in yourself that is bigger than anyone's disbelief.

your mind is like an unsafe neighborhood; don't go there alone.

I, myself, am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.

I came to think that maybe God was what you believed in because you needed to feel you weren't alone. Maybe God was simply that part of yourself that was always there and always strong, even when you were not.

The man who has a library of his own collection is able to contemplate himself objectively, and is justified in believing in his own existence.

Ninguém pode fazer tanto mal a você quanto você mesmo.