Quotes About Self

How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole

Individuality is freedom lived.

I am the shore and the ocean, awaiting myself on both sides.

Easy to do are things that are bad and harmful to oneself. But exceedingly difficult to do are things that are good and beneficial.

To blame others for our misfortunes is always a victory for the nafs.

The Truth has shared so much of Itself with me That I can no longer call myself A man, a woman, an angel, Or even pure Soul.

Of all the beautiful truths pertaining to the soul None is more gladdening or fruitful than to know You can regenerate and make yourself what you will.

Freedom always carries a burden of proof, always throws us back on ourselves.

There are four types of oceans. Passions are the ocean of sins, the self (nafs) is the ocean of lust, death is the ocean of life, and the grave is the ocean of distress

While gazing at myself from yourself, I was beautiful.

If we want to awaken, we don't need to eradicate the ego, we simply need to be conscious of the deeper self as well.

The Ego is an exquisite instrument. Enjoy it, use it--just don't get lost in it.

The ego is the separate self through which the universal self can experience the adventure of living.

Find the love you seek, by first finding the love within yourself. Learn to rest in that place within you that is your true home.

Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself.

Anxiety may consist of the loss of psychological or spiritual meaning which is identified with one's existence as a self, i.e., the threat of meaninglessness.

Children are wise in a funny kind of way. They haven't developed so many vested interests of self. There is a wisdom, a lack of self-consciousness, that is innocence.

I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.

If we do not know how to respect the Mother Earth, we do not know how to respect ourselves.

Freedom is when you really get your own powers which are within you.

What we have to be is what we are.

The truth which can be actualized after Self Realization is that you are not this body, this mind, this conditioning from the past, this ego, these emotions, but that you are the pure spirit.

Our true and genuine wisdom can be summed up as the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves.

Have love for your inner Self and everything else is done for you.