Quotes About Self

To rest was to receive all aspects of the world without judgment. A bath in the sea, a fuck with a soldier who never knew your name. Tenderness toward the unknown and anonymous, which was tenderness to the self.

Jung was absolutely right about one thing. We are occupied by gods. The mistake is to identify with the god occupying you.

Your own story is just one, and perhaps not the important one. The self is not the principal thing.

Her body had been in a war and, as in love, it had used every part of itself.

I thought I was being loved because I was being altered.

When we are young, he thought, the first necessary rule is to stop invasions of ourselves. We know this as children.

I find that her hearing is quite a lot worse and that she has suffered a loss of confidence in herself, which it will be very hard to replace.

consciousness survives the disappearance of the self, that it is not so indispensable as we—and it—like to think. Carhart-Harris

The psychedelic experience of "non-duality" suggests that consciousness survives the disappearance of the self, that it is not so indispensable as we—and it—like to think.

a much better and certainly more useful antonym for "spiritual" might be "egotistical." Self and Spirit define the opposite ends of a spectrum, but that spectrum needn't reach clear to the heavens to have meaning for us. It can stay right here on earth.

Now I'm inclined to think a much better and certainly more useful antonym for "spiritual" might be "egotistical." Self

neuroscience might have at last found the address for the "But enough about you" center of the brain.

By administering psychedelics in carefully calibrated doses, neuroscientists can profoundly disturb the normal waking consciousness of volunteers, dissolving the structures of the self and occasioning what can be described as a mystical experience.

Aren't we identical with our ego? What's left of us without it? The lesson of both psychedelics and meditation is the same: No! on the first count, and More than enough on the second.

Vanity is my favourite sin.

Our sin is exactly the presumption that we can know God or ourselves through our own capacities.

I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.

I believe if you are sincere with your work and you are good at it, then your identity will be created by default.

Getting up and having the courage to share with people, all people, and even just being asked to sing, first of all, that's all part of how I express my identity.

There was a period of time when I first moved to Nashville, like the first couple of years, that I was just simply lost. I didn't know who I was; I didn't know really what I was doing here. I was meant to be a singer, but I just felt lost. That's when I went on the search for my birth family.

I like to see myself as a composer first and only then as a singer.

The question is not... if art is enough to fulfill my life, but if I am true to the path I have set for myself, if I am the best I can be in the things I do. Am I living up to the reasons I became a singer in the first place?

Originally I considered myself a singer.

I'm not just a singer-songwriter doing songs in the key of me.