Quotes About Self

Lindell had seen too many of these women who subordinated themselves, but could also feel the temptation of giving in to a more traditional woman's role. It would be so easy to be like her mother. So seemingly secure.

You don't need me. What you really need is a mirror. Because any stranger is for you simply a mirror in which to reflect yourself. I don't ever again want to return to such a desert of mirrors.

First organize the inner, then organize the outer ... First organize the great, then organize the small. First organize yourself, and then organize others

Those who wish to transform the world must be able to transform themselves.

Love the art in yourself, not yourself in the art.

Worry can bring you down to nothing and make you doubt everything you know about yourself.

When we are acting like God, we are being ourselves! The ramifications of having God as our Daddy (rather than some ape dragging his knuckles in the African jungle somewhere) is life changing. I hope you can see that what you believe about your origin makes a difference in the way you value yourself and humanity in general.

I come to understand that for most of my life, when I was looking for love, I was looking to be loved. In this, I am a prism of my world. I am a novice at love in all its fullness, a beginner.

No wonder nothing had worked. No one else was him.

You couldn't give up you for them. But what if you wanted them more than you wanted a singular powerful you?

courage was a lie. It was just fear that you ignored.

That is the great and liberating thing about any genuine personality: he voluntarily sacrifices himself to his vocation, and consciously translates into his own individual reality what would only lead to ruin if it were lived unconsciously by the group

To provide an example of the types of symbols which are manifested by the archetypes we will look at the archetype Jung called the Self. The Self is the central archetype and its role is in unifying the other archetypal structures of the psyche. According to Jung, the importance of the Self archetype coincides with the fact that it is the source of many of the symbols found in religions and myths.

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular.

I like to think of myself as a quiet revolutionary.

From what I have been saying, I trust it is clear that when I can permit realness in myself or sense it or permit it in another, I am very satisfied. When I cannot permit it in myself or fail to permit it in another, I am very distressed.

The modern self assumes the authority of inner feelings and sees authenticity as defined by the ability to give social expression to the same.

Der Feind ist unsere eigene Frage als Gestalt.

Why can I remember eggplant, when I can't remember my own name?!

Persuasion lives not in him who does not live from his own self, who is son and father, slave and master of what lies around him, of what came before, of what must come after—a thing among things. Persuaded is he who has his life within himself, a soul naked amongst the islands of the blessed (Gorgias). But men look for 'life,' and lose 'life' (St. Matthew).

We are stories, contained within the twenty complicated centimeters behind our eyes...

Nature is our home, and in nature we are at home. This strange, multicoloured and astonishing world which we explore – where space is granular, time does not exist, and things are nowhere – is not something that estranges us from our true selves, for this is only what our natural curiosity reveals to us about the place of our dwelling. About the stuff of which we ourselves are made.

There is not an "I" and "the neurons in my brain." They are the same thing.

The first is that every one of us identifies with a point of view in the world.