Quotes About Self

It's amazing how you can be a total shithead, and yet your soul still wants to hang out with you.

Nobody believes the identities we've made for ourselves. I feel like everybody in the world is fake now—as though people had true cores once, but hucked them away and replaced them with something more attractive but also hollow.

People need history in order to know themselves

What I carried away in the end was a determination to heal-insofar as an individual woman can, and as much as possible with other women--the separation between mind and body; never again to lose myself both psychically and physically in that way

This beast, this angel is both you and I

The truth is that you already are what you are seeking.

Love is a flame that burns everything other than itself. It is the destruction of all that is false and the fulfillment of all that is true.

We end up putting so much attention onto our image that we remain in a continuous state of protecting or improving our image in order to control how others see us.

Awareness isn't something we own; awareness isn't something we possess. Awareness is actually what we are.

Whatever you think you are, that's not it.

You are an incredible mystery that you will never figure out. To be this mystery consciously is the greatest joy.

By identifying with a particular name that belongs to a particular body and mind, the self begins the process of creating a separate identity. Add in a complex jumble of ideas, beliefs, and opinions, along with some selective and often painful memories with which to create a past to identify with, as well as the raw emotional energy to hold it all together, and before you know it, you've got a very convincing - though divided - self.

Ego is nothing more than the beliefs, ideas, and images we have about ourselves—and so it is actually

Absolute Truth is not a belief, not a religion, not a philosophy, not a momentary experience, and not a transient spiritual experience either. It is neither static nor in motion, neither good nor bad. It is other than all of that, more other than you can ever imagine. Truth cannot be touched by thought or imagined by the mind. It can only be found in the heart of universal being. To know thy self is the key. To bring forth your being is The Way.

you don't die; the illusion of a separate self dies. Still, it may feel like you are going to die. Only when you are willing to die for the sake of truth can that grasping truly and authentically let go.

The freedom that's discovered isn't, "I have attained enlightenment." The freedom is, "My God, there is nobody here to be enlightened. Therefore, there is nobody there to be unenlightened." That's the light. Only the concept "me" thinks it needs enlightenment, freedom, liberation, and emancipation. It thinks it needs to find God or get a Ferrari—it's all the same thing when you get right down to it.

The human being is what links consciousness to its own infinite expressions in form. Through the form of an awake human being, consciousness becomes conscious of itself as both formlessness and as all forms. This is why, to the true sage, everything is divine, whole, and complete. Everything is God, the Self. (p. 71)

Who am I? Meditate on that. Seek the Seeker. (p. 32)

Imagine if you took it on in yourself to reorient your life trajectory toward your divinity. Your divinity: I so loved the world, that I gave it all of myself.

Those who assume a character which does not belong to them, only make themselves ridiculous.

It's what's in yourself that makes you happy or unhappy.

People with a grudge against the world are always dangerous. They seem to think life owes them something. I've known many an invalid who has suffered worse and been cut off from life much more . . . and they've managed to lead happy contented lives. It's what's in yourself that makes you happy or unhappy.

Everyone likes talking about himself. - Hercule Poirot

A diary is useful for recording the idiosyncrasies of other people—but not one's own.