Quotes About Self

te convertirás en aquello en lo que pienses constantemente.

Stains were a patchwork of mistakes you couldn't get rid of. They showed the world your real self, even the parts you didn't want it to see.

In almost every story, the fiercest battles often take place within.

The most difficult battles in life are those we fight within.

It is possible, without knowing it, to live at the margin of your own life.

Beauty set up distance between other people and me. It warped their behavior.

The more I study religion," he wrote, "the more I am convinced that man never worshiped anyone but himself." Although a spy and an infidel and an agnostic

The more I study religion," he wrote, "the more I am convinced that man never worshiped anyone but himself.

A man who does not trust himself will never really trust anybody.

A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyone else.

A man who doesn't trust himself can never truly trust anyone else.

Love is not dependent on someone or something outside of you. One chooses to be Love in each moment as the moment unfolds, regardless of what happened in that moment.

The mind is not some organ that does the sense-making. That role belongs to the brain. The mind is a product of our sense-making activity. It is what our sense-making postulates when it tries to make sense of itself.

The biblical revelation proclaims from start to finish that the old self is a lost cause, and that man faces the future with hope only as a new creature, as a reborn self, spiritually enlivened to the supernatural world;

anyone who attempts to do both, to adjust to his group and at the same time pursue his individual goal, becomes neurotic.

Finché non prenderai coscienza l'inconscio governerà la tua vita. E tu lo chiamerai destino.

Yet there is so much that fills me: plants, animals, clouds, day and night, and the eternal in man. The more uncertain I have felt about myself, the more there has grown up in me a feeling of kinship with all things. In fact it seems to me as if that alienation which so long separated me from the world has become transferred into my own inner world, and has revealed to me an unexpected unfamiliarity with my­ self.

Like every other being, I am a splinter of the infinite deity, but I cannot contrast myself with any animal, any plant or any stone.

I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.

Whatever is rejected from the self, appears in the world as an event.

The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality

The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.

I must also have a dark side if I am to be whole.