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Quotes About Self

The third Law, the Art of Allowing, says: I am that which I am, and I am willing to allow all others to be that which they are.
~ Esther Hicks
So the only question is: Are you, from your physical format, right now, a Vibrational Match to your creation? Or not? •  And the way you feel, right now, as you focus upon the subject of creation is your answer.
~ Esther Hicks
Love is at once an affirmation and a transcendence of who we are.
~ Esther Perel
I think that as soon as you think of yourself as a famous person or anything like that, you're objectifying yourself in some weird way.
~ Ethan Hawke
When we separate our spiritual self from our life in the world, we create a kind of inner schism that leads to a sense of meaninglessness and isolation in our "secular" life.
~ Ethan Nichtern
The purveyor of violence always hurts himself before he hurts anyone else. When
~ Ethan Nichtern
Love requires learning to love ourselves in the mirror, and learning to look other people in the eye. Buddhism, in turn, asks us to pause and look at even the subtlest causal connections and take our appreciation of them to greater depths.
~ Ethan Nichtern
Inhabiting a human nervous system is kind of like living in a house where the doorbell and the burglar alarm make exactly the same sound. Because
~ Ethan Nichtern
À pessoa que descansa em si não lhe interessa o tempo; a evolução não deve levar o tempo em conta.
~ Etty Hillesum
We are the breakers of our own hearts
~ Eudora Welty
The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.
~ Eudora Welty
O young artist, you search for a subject—everything is a subject. Your subject is yourself, your impressions, your emotions in the presence of nature.
~ Eugene Delacroix
Self is the soul minus God.
~ Eugene H Peterson
The kingdom of self is heavily defended territory. Post-Eden
~ Eugene H. Peterson
It is wicked to tell a person a lie about God because, if we come to believe the wrong things about God, we will think the wrong things about ourselves, and we will live meanly or badly.
~ Eugene H. Peterson
Self-justification is a verbal defense for restoring the appearance of righteousness without doing anything about the substance.
~ Eugene H. Peterson
Prayer is a way of language practiced in the presence of God in which we become more than ourselves while remaining ourselves.
~ Eugene H. Peterson
Just as water mirrors your face, so your face mirrors your heart.
~ Eugene H. Peterson
But if you're content to be simply yourself, you will become more than yourself.
~ Eugene H. Peterson
We are most ourselves when we love; we are most the People of God when we love.
~ Eugene H. Peterson
What kind of deal is it to get everything you want but lose yourself? What could you ever trade your soul for?
~ Eugene H. Peterson
Countless human beings wear masks which they hope will cover up what they dislike about themselves.
~ Eugene Kennedy
We have to entertain the possibility that there is no reason for something existing; or that the split between subject and object is only our name for something equally accidental we call knowledge; or, an even more difficult thought, that while there may be some order to the self and the cosmos, to the microcosm and macrocosm, it is an order that is absolutely indifferent to our existence, and of which we can have only a negative awareness.
~ Eugene Thacker
Your speech so halting and unguarded is the only thing left with which to content myself. But the accent is changed, the colour is different.
~ Eugenio Montale