Quotes About Self

What is real i the absence of the fiction of self-existence.

weiß ich, dass es so viele Lebenswege gibt wie Menschen auf dieser Erde. Den eigenen Weg zu finden ist die Kunst schlechthin, denn nur auf unserem Weg sind wir stark.

Denn Erkenntnis – auch über uns selbst – lässt sich nicht im Gänsemarsch gewinnen. Und eine Gesellschaft, die das Suchen oder Forschen nicht zulässt, ist dem Untergang geweiht.

Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him.

The mountain also represents the power of vision and of enlightenment. It presents the struggle against inner ghosts; the victory over fear of solitude, silence, and the void; the capability of the awakening of the divine element within man; the power of transcendence that allows us to ascend to the top of the self.

Inside, the lies you tell become the person you become. On the outside, sun and reality shrink people back to their actual size. In here, people grow into their shadows.

FEBRUARY 27 IF YOU WANT to change the world, first try to improve and bring about change within yourself. That will help change your family. From there it just gets bigger and bigger. Everything we do has some effect, some impact.

there is no mistaking the tension that exists in the gospels between how the early church viewed Jesus and how Jesus seems to view himself.

A true Sufi, Shaykh Haeri writes, "does not separate the inner from the outer," for when you "start by purifying your inner self, you end up being concerned with the outer and with society.

It is simply up to the individual to decide what "the One" is: how it should be defined, and how it should be experienced

Fear is the cause and effect of the thoughts, feelings and actions that prohibit you from accepting yourself and realizing your full potential

If you're going to make something up about yourself, make it good

Nos adiestran durante demasiado tiempo en la estupidez y al final se nos convierte en una segunda naturaleza, decía Marcelo, me dice Renzi. Lo primero que pensamos siempre está mal, decía, es un reflejo condicionado. Hay que pensar en contra de sí mismo y vivir en tercera persona.

people spend less time in the office and have more time to themselves. Their need to belong to a tribe can be satisfied with hobbies or in community activities and doesn't have to be met in the office.

Avrus ipse miseriae causa est suae. (Publilius Sent.:

And, Freedom, was I free?

Your whole body, from wingtip to wingtip, Jonathan would say, other times, is nothing more than your thought itself, in a form you can see. Break the chains of your thought, and you break the chains of your body, too.

Look in the mirror and one thing is sure: what we see is not who we are.

if you argue for your limitations they are yours

How easy it is to be compassionate when it's yourself you see in trouble.

The original sin is to limit the Is. Don't.

From time to time it's fun to close our eyes, and in that dark say to ourselves, 'I am the sorcerer, and when I open my eyes I shall see a world that I have created, and for which I and only I am completely responsible.' Slowly then, eyelids open like curtains lifting stage-center. And sure enough, there's our world, just the way we've built it.

The only obligation we have in any lifetime is to be true to ourselves.

I have a way of finding what is true for me, and it's not finished yet.