Quotes About Self

Yo soy yo y mi circunstancia.

El que no cultiva su mente, va derecho a la disgregación de su personalidad.

Todo suceso feliz le aflige o atiza su congoja; destinada a sufrir, es el verdugo implacable de sí misma.

I am myself and what is around me, and if I do not save it, it shall not save me.

Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.

Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.

True happiness... arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self.

A free man has two things thoroughly his own, his body and his land.

Yes, forget your weakness, whatever that weakness may be. It is egotism, it is selfishness after. all, for it is a dwelling on self. Forget your weakness and remember your strength.

What each must seek in his own life never was on land or sea. It is something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.

Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.

operate within a new form of science that asks not just what is possible, but what is appropriate—appropriate to the well-being of self and Earth. Such a question does not originate in the mental realm but the spiritual, and is felt bodily, once our senses and heart are attuned. So the central part of our being that simply must be allowed to function and be attended is the heart.

Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.

He struggled with himself, too. I saw it -- I heard it. I saw the inconceivable mystery of a soul that knew no restraint, no faith, and no fear, yet struggling blindly with itself.

Be less than what you are so that you can become more.

How can you be lonely? You've got yourself, haven't you? If you ever lose yourself, then you'll really be lonely.

These narrative moves reduce dissonance and help maintain a sense of control and personal unity.

consciousness is a self-narrative

The utility that allowed emotions to persist in the genes of our species may have been the ability to personalize value. Rather than simply detecting risk and avoiding danger, the organism could consider, "How dangerous is this to me?" Other animals can represent value, but only humans can make it personal. In this view, an emotion is the experience that something of value is happening to you. If so, emotions could not exist without autonoesis. No self, no emotion.

We don't see things as they are. We see things as we are.

True humility is the absence of anyone to be proud." Humility is not a stance; it is simply the absence of self. In the same way, relationship is the absence of separation, and it can be felt with each breath, each sensation, each thought, each cloud in the sky, each person that we meet. "And being nothing, you are everything. That is all.

The proud man hath no God; the envious man hath no neighbor; the angry man hath not himself.