Quotes About Self

Where we choose to be, where we choose to be--we have the power to determine that in our lives. We cannot reel time backward or forward, but we can take ourselves to the place that defines our being.

Pardon me, dear human self, capable of the most heinous degradation, capable of soaring.

There's one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude -- confidence in self.

No one can wear a mask for very long.

Chico, ¿a quién ofendo con eso, si son mis plumas?

How intensely do I want to exist?

I didn't like that person inside me who said and did awful things. But sometimes it felt as if I had no control over her.

She felt thankful her father always gave her the freedom to express herself how she wished and live her life the way she thought was right. He allowed her to be herself,

We are our own gods and our own demons

El que vive aislado busca su propio deseo, contra todo consejo se encoleriza" (Proverbios 18:1 La Biblia de las Américas).

It's a matter of will. A matter of drama. I have to think of myself as an actor. What is real and what is drama anyway? It is simply a matter of convincing myself and everyone else to believe. What's this blather about the real truth?

Words are the residue that I was there, that I loved my wife, that I kissed my children goodnight, that I sacrificed my life for them. Words are a curse. Life is a curse. Words escape life. Life escapes words. What in God's name am I? How does someone name a God? What is it to name yourself?

Turi remembers this strange feeling repeated throughout his life: who he thinks he is in his mind is sometimes not who others see or imagine he can be. This gap never seems to go away. Sometimes this secret self is comforting, for its privacy. Sometimes it is amusing, when he witnesses what crazy assumptions others have of him. Too often this gap is dispiriting, a prison inside of him without any means of escape.

When your ideas about yourself change, so does your experience.

Do not place the words of ANYONE above the feelings of your own being. You can learn much from others, but the deepest knowledge must come from within yourself.

Journeys cause you to put your status quo self into foreclosure and put a down payment on your truest self.

People don't believe what you tell them. They rarely believe what you show them. They often believe what their friends tell them. They always believe what they tell themselves.

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us." At

je me demande... si cette armure n'est pas So. Alors je voudrais le demander à la girafe la prochaine fois.

The practice of Zen never explains anything. Zen simply points directly at our mind, our true self, so that we can directly attain enlightenment and help all beings. So

When man penetrates the mysteries of Nature, the "facts of Nature" become transparent symbols, revealing the "divine energies" and the "angelic" state which fallen man has lost, and which he may recover only for a moment, as when he is enraptured by the beauty of music or of a lovely face. At such moments man forgets his limited self, his individualistic dream, and participates in the cosmic dream, thus becoming freed from the prison of his own carnal soul.

Look at yourself; you are the same person since you were born. During these forty years of your life, all the cells of your body have changed, but you are still you, even though you are liv- ing in time and space. So it is with tradition.

What if in REALITY the only great thing in [us] was just the THEORY of maybe loving each other

No matter what the circumstances, no man can completely escape from vanity.