Quotes About Self

The expression of hatred for your enemies is sometimes the only way to end self-hatred.

For the first time I actually feel like I owned my skin, like it was me and I was it.

Nada más excitante (escribió) que salvarse a uno mismo con el simple acto de despertar.

Sua vida lhe era tão estranha que não parecia mais ser sua, se é que algum dia tinha sido.

But I suppose it's part of being old to feel that way, half in one world and half in the other, all of it mixed together in my mind. No one's left who even knows my name. Folks call me Auntie, on account of I never could have children of my own, and I guess that suits me fine. Sometime it's like I've got so many people inside of me I'm never alone at all. And when I go, I'll be taking them with me.

soon enough the lies were all you had and you became that person.

Is there no I but I?

Try as you might, nobody will ever truly know who you are.

All measurement begins (and in the end, ends) with ourselves.

The trouble with running away is that, no matter where you go, you have to take yourself with you.

God's word tells us that righteousness is a gift; it cannot be earned. But godliness is not a gift. We must pay a price to touch godliness through a daily decision to die to self and embrace the cross. God calls us to learn godliness in the classroom of life among people as we sit on airplanes and buses, walk among our neighbors and labor at our factories or desks.

What will you do with your self? Many men and women are still in darkness, trying to figure out the meaning and purpose of life. But no matter what you try to do with your self— whether you deny it, obliterate it, annihilate it, accept it or express it—believe me, it is still alive and kicking.

Could having a face be such an important requirement? Was being seen the cost of the right to see?

No matter how many faces I have, there is no changing the fact that I am me.

Be strong then, and enter into your own body; there you have a solid place for your feet.

Umakni vso domišljijo, in se trdno okleni tega, kar dejansko si.

What we most need is what we already are: our essential Self. There is no escape; there is only coming home [...] The submission of the lower self to the Higher Self, of the self to the Whole in each moment, becomes the central fact of existence. Submission is to live for one's Self - the eternal I - not for one's ego..." ? Kabir Edmund Helminski, Living Presence: A Sufi Way to Mindfulness & the Essential Self

What we most need is what we already are: our essential Self. There is no escape; there is only coming home [...] The submission of the lower self to the Higher Self, of the self to the Whole in each moment, becomes the central fact of existence. Submission is to live for one's Self - the eternal I - not for one's ego...

Realization, in its fullest meaning, is not merely knowing something, but making it real in oneself. We come to this essential Self through a process of deconditioning, reconditioning, and unconditioning. This can also be described as minimizing what is negative, increasing what is positive, and, ultimately, opening to Spirit.

Furthermore, we exist in a psychologically fragmented state, a state of continuous inner conflicts among the parts of ourselves. We have lost the principle of unity within ourselves. We are not only psychological polytheists, worshipping gods of our own creation, we are "polyselfists," because we have many selves and have not known our essential self.

Coherence comes from a deep center, which is the heart. Ultimately it's the heart of the human being connected to Infinite Spirit. When the self is connected to the heart, and the heart is connected to God, you have coherence. It's really that simple. The practice we call "the remembrance of God" is the channel to that coherence. (p. 14)

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are the eternity and you are the mirror.

Much of your pain is self-chosen. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

Most are on the search for their center their entire life long, for the axis of their world, but only the fewest are aware of it.