Quotes About Self

Although consciousness is a patchwork of competing and often contradictory tendencies, the left brain ignores inconsistencies and papers over obvious gaps in order to give us a smooth sense of a single "I." In other words, the left brain is constantly making excuses, some of them harebrained and preposterous, to make sense of the world. It is constantly asking "Why?" and dreaming up excuses even if the question has no answer.

Consciousness turns out to consist of a maelstrom of events distributed across the brain. These events compete for attention, and as one process outshouts the others, the brain rationalizes the outcome after the fact and concocts the impression that a single self was in charge all along.

El cuerpo no se elige —se decía— pero el alma sí; cada uno hacemos de nuestra alma lo que nos apetece que sea.

You will find that you don't need to trust others as much as you need to trust yourself to make the right choices.

Love for yourself is the key to loving other. Love begins with you

Being impeccable with your word is the correct use of your energy; it means to use your energy in the direction of truth and love for yourself.

Who stops us from being free? We blame the government, we blame the weather, we blame our parents, we blame religion, we blame God. Who really stops us from being free? We stop ourselves.

The warrior has awareness...we are aware that we are at war , and the war in our minds requires discipline. Not the discipline of a soldier but the discipline of a warrior. Not the discipline from the outside to tell us what to do and not to do, but the discipline to be ourselves, no matter what.

You are alive, and you don't need to justify your existence. You can be the biggest mystery in your own story.

Let us trust ourselves completely to make the choices we must make.

You are never responsible for the actions of others; you are only responsible for you.

We want our freedom; we want to be ourselves, but we are also afraid to be by ourselves.

You have to trust yourself and choose to believe or not to believe what someone says to you.

The result of practicing the fifth agreement is the complete acceptance of yourself just the way you are, and the complete acceptance of everybody else just the way they are. The reward is your eternal happiness.

You don't need knowledge or great philosophical concepts. You don't need the acceptance of others. You express your own divinity by being alive and by loving yourself and others. It is an expression of God to say, "Hey, I love you.

You create yourself, whatever you believe you are. You are the way you are because that is what you believe about yourself.

Words are your paintbrush, and your life is the canvas. You can paint whatever you want to paint; you can even copy another artist's work — but what you express with your paintbrush is the way you see yourself, the way you see the entire reality.

Finally, if you are aware that no one else can make you happy, and that happiness is the result of love coming out of you, this becomes the greatest mastery of the Toltecs, the Mastery of Love.

No te creas ninguna cosa que te haga sufrir.

And he realized that everyone was dreaming, but without awareness, without knowing what they really are.

To master a relationship is all about you. The first step is to become aware, to know that everyone dreams his own dream.

The only person who needs to be concerned about the story of you is you.

Freedom begins when each individual mind dares to liberate itself from the prison it created. We are free when the war in our heads is over.

Happiness never comes from outside of us. He was happy because of the love coming out of him; she was happy because of the love coming out of her. But as soon as he made her responsible for his happiness, she broke the star because she could not be responsible for his happiness.