Quotes About Self

A labyrinthine man never seeks the truth, but only his Ariadne.

I am myself: a light. In me you find your fate. So be not blind to the truth shining from my glow.

Why does man not see things? He is himself standing in the way: he conceals things.

Responsibility to self simply means to acknowledge inner truth-our imperfections and our power, our beauty.

Wizard's Tenth Rule Willfully turning aside from the truth is treason to one's self.

You're the only one that can put pressure on yourself... No one else can put pressure on you. It's self-inflicted. For me, I just want to go out and play football.

Truth is not introduced into the individual from without, but was within him all the time.

Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Understand this great truth: The happiness that comes from the pleasures of the world is but a minute reflection of the infinite bliss that comes from within your own Self.

Make an island of yourself, make yourself your refuge; there is no other refuge. Make truth your island, make truth your refuge; there is no other refuge.

Fiction is a web of lies that attempts to entangle the truth. And autobiography may well be the reverse: data tricked up and rearranged to invent a fictive self.

Because truth is exceedingly subtle and serene, the bliss of the Self can manifest only in a mind rendered subtle and steady by assiduous meditation.

I don't know who I am, to tell you the truth.

One must be truly able to say I in order to know the mystery of the Thou in its whole truth.

Remember this always: The living of your own life writes the book of your most sacred truth, and offers evidence of it.

...just being ordinary in and of itself is and expression of divinity; the truth of one's real self can be discovered through the pathway of everyday life.

The soul is the truth of who we are.

Whatever is associated with the mind is bound to change. The truth is that which is changeless. It is the Self.

Those old stories of visions and dreams guiding men have their truth; we are saved by making the future present to ourselves.

I lost my reputation, I forgot my truth. But I have my beauty and I have my youth.

All we really want in the end is to be connected once again with the Truth of our being, to realize what it is that wears this mask of self.

My truths do not last long in me. Not as long as those that are not mine.

To maintain an opinion because it is thine, and not because it is true, is to prefer thyself above the truth.

Truth, for any man, is that which makes him a man.