Quotes About Self

what greater enemy does one have than oneself?

You love being Ruby's mother, but loving Ruby does not stop you from wanting things for yourself.

And as any mixed-race person will tell you — to be half of two things is to be a whole of nothing.

how quickly the world could shift. How your sense of self could change depending on your location.

I Am a Strange Loop, by Doug Hofstadter

What was amazing to Sam—and what became a theme of the games he would go on to make with Sadie—was how quickly the world could shift. How your sense of self could change depending on your location. As Sadie would put it in an interview with

As he rounded Kennedy Street, he began to chant to himself a poem that he had heard once, he wasn't sure where. "That love is all there is; is all we know of love. It is enough; the freight should be proportioned to the groove.

I'm meant to love you, no matter how you act, no matter what you do? I couldn't respect myself if I felt that way.

I would say I am the proud owner of several complexes. But who isn't? When you think about it, isn't a person just a structure built in reaction to the landscape and the weather?

What was amazing to Sam—and what became a theme of the games he would go on to make with Sadie—was how quickly the world could shift. How your sense of self could change depending on your location.

Despite everything that transpired at Unfair Games on December 4th, 2005, and despite evidence to the contrary, it is not an inevitability that we should be our worst selves behind the mask of an avatar.

And as any mixed-race person will tell you - to be half of two things is to be whole of nothing.

The modern Westerner, persuaded that he has a right to "think for himself" and imagining that he exercises this right, is unwilling to acknowledge that his every thought has been shaped by cultural and historical influences and that his opinions fit, like pieces of jigsaw puzzle, into a pattern which has nothing random about it.

Being I loved, I think, is another matter entirely, a neighboring city on the same train route, connected but by no means destiny. If and when the bond takes both ways, you have a third entity, which is the thing the lover and the loved create together. This is called history, or experience, and the strong it is, the more power it has to muck about with the sense of self.

You're Only the fairest when your fairest to yourself

The tasks of this period are as enormous as they are exhilarating: To shape a dream, that vision of one's own possibilities in the world that will generate energy, aliveness, and hope. To prepare for a lifework. To find a mentor if possible. And to form the capacity for intimacy without losing in the process whatever constancy of self we have thus far assembled. The first test structure must be erected around the life we choose to try. One

And even as one part of us seeks the freedom to be an individual, another part is always searching for someone or something to surrender our freedom to.

Never mind. The self is the least of it. Let our scars fall in love

Trust yourself. At the root, at the core, there is pure sanity, pure openness. Don't trust what you have been taught, what you think, what you believe, what you hope. Deeper than that, trust the silence of your being.

And the degree to which you hold back surrendering everything to love is the degree to which you suffer. The degree to which you try to maintain the story about who you think you are is the degree to which you feel isolated from love. Until you realize, "I want truth, which is love, more than anything," you will experience yourself as separate from love. Love is the constant. Love is not an aspect of truth. Truth, God, and self are aspects of love.

They feel separate because they appear to be separate, and we are trained to accept our perceptions as reality. There is deep conditioning that you are a particular body. Then for an instant you glimpse the freedom of no body present. This glimpse is the cut in the knot of misidentification.

Reality is myself, reality is only the perception of this instant and it can't be related to another person.

Dreams are more real than reality itself, they're closer to the self.

Reality is myself, reality is only the perception of this instant and it can't be related to another person.