Quotes About Self

It is easier to face an emergency than to have those difficult conversations. When we go into crisis mode, we give ourselves permission to defer the kinds of conversations that politics requires. And right now, our politics requires conversations, too long deferred, about being a self and a citizen in the world of big data.

The inability to move from one phase of life and change one's self-identity is, "the anxiety of always.

They take antidepressants prescribed by their psychotherapists, confident that the biochemical and oedipal self can be treated in one room.

The self does not develop independently from its social surroundings.

Americans were once inner-directed. Now they had become other-directed, seeking identity in external validation.

Gone points to the Source of your own consciousness.

You know, I think the consciousness of the higher self and the eternal self is determined by, how much fear, you have, or allow yourself to have. And that's what I've been working on. The older I get, the more I realize, that what, it's, Love versus Fear, not Love versus Hate. 1march2017 interview, James Corden TV show USA

Realisation' means it is an experience. Outside forces cannot make me feel successful. I have to feel it within myself. It is internal not external. That is why what often appears success externally may be total hollowness internally.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

All sufferings come from false pride.

Think, how hard it is to change yourself. How can it be easy to change others?

Thus the privatization process functions to keep people blaming themselves, rather than the institution, for its failure: Though the institution consistently proves itself unsatisfactory, even rotten, it encourages them to believe that somehow their own case will be different.

What we call 'I' is just a swinging door, which moves when we inhale and when we exhale.

There is no connection between I myself yesterday and I myself in this moment

This is the mystery. When you understand one thing through and through, you understand everything. When you try to understand everything, you will not understand anything. The best way is to understand yourself, and then you will understand everything. So when you try hard to make your own way, you will help others, and you will be helped by others. Before you make your own way you cannot help anyone, and no one can help you. To

Because your attainment is always ahead, you will always be sacrificing yourself now for some ideal in the future.

Nothing outside yourself can cause any trouble. You yourself make the waves in your mind. If you leave your mind as it is, it will become calm. This mind is called big mind.

But Buddha was not interested in the elements comprising human beings, nor in metaphysical theories of existence. He was more concerned about how he himself existed in this moment.

You should not be absent-minded. But to be aware of the movement does not mean to be aware of your small self, but rather of your universal nature...

Doing something is expressing our own nature. We do not exist for the sake of something else. We exist for the sake of ourselves.

Without any intentional, fancy way of adjusting yourself, to express yourself as you are is the most important thing.

Usually we think of our mind as receiving impressions and experiences from outside, but that is not a true understanding of our mind. The true understanding is that the mind includes everything; when you think something comes from outside it means only that something appears in your mind.

The enlightened person is some perfect, desirable character, for himself and for others.

A person never knows their own true face. Everybody thinks that the phoney, posed social mask they wear is their real face.