Quotes About Self

To affirm is not to bear, carry, or harness oneself to that which exists, but on the contrary to unburden, unharness, and set free that which lives.

You may be weaker than the whole world but you are always stronger than yourself.

This time I want to do it differently. You may be weaker than the whole world but you are always stronger than yourself. Let me send my power against my power. So what if I die. Let me discover what it is that I want and fear from love. Power and love, might and grace. That I may desire again. I would be the lover, am barely the Beloved.

I'm fine but, wow, thanks for asking! Very few people ask how Mom is doing; we usually get asked how baby is doing, and that's that." My simple "How are YOU?" was met with a complicated response when I asked my niece Anne what her life was like now that she had become a mom. This surprised me not at all.

Our beliefs define us. And who wants to be undefined in today's world? So we scrape together convenient truths and build our identities out of them.

After a certain age, you finally become the indisputable authority on the subject of yourself.

What happens when self-erasure has been the norm for so long that the You cannot find its way back to I?

When somebody dies thinking you are someone you haven't been in years—someone you maybe never were to begin with—what parts of your identity, real and constructed, do the dead take with them?

identity is as impossible to pin down and hold as an ocean.

you no longer expect to stop pretending someday. It has become simply a part of who you are,

Our lives follow the stories we tell ourselves.

To believe that we can have what we want is an act of trust – not only of others but also, ourselves.

Wandering is not limited to geography. Also an altered state of consciousness, it allows a disembodied self to drift on currents of collective awareness with minimal attachment to the physical world. This state of wander tapped imaginative faculties that opened me to a freedom of being only previously experienced through travel.

If you've broken any promises you've made to yourself, now is the time to make up for it.

What if you are the awareness, and you were just pretending to be attached to a particular body-mind for the experience it provides consciousness?

The real you is not your body, your mind, your personality, or any of the things you call yourself. What are these labels, after all? They are just ideas. Are you an idea, or are you what is aware of the ideas, labels, thoughts, desires, and feelings of a particular body-mind? The

No one else but you can actually make you feel love or feel loved. That is solely up to you. Love is an experience that happens within you. It is an experience of your heart being open. If your heart is open, you won't need love from another person. It's only when your heart is closed that you feel a need for love from another.

You are the Beloved you have been searching for, for so long.

You are not who your beliefs tell you that you are, and reality is not what your beliefs tell you that it is. Beliefs stand in the way of experiencing your true self and experiencing reality. Beliefs are all that stand in the way, but that is enough to make this human life a challenge.

Thoughts are conditioning, so when you believe your thoughts, you become the conditioned self and lose touch with your real self. As a result of the distance from thoughts developed by meditation, the real self comes back into the picture. The real you is what is aware of thoughts and of everything else. The ego can't be aware of thoughts because the ego is, in essence, itself a thought. The ego belongs to the conditioned self and has no awareness of its own.

She formed the words, chewed them, felt them move in her mouth, but something in her refused to speak them.

In the struggle for everyone's happiness, the first happiness one found was one's own

El hombre es uno y ninguno. Carga desde hace años con su rostro pegado al cráneo y su sombra cosida a los pies, y todavía no ha logrado comprender cuál de las dos cosas pesa más.

Sometimes I wonder if it does exist such a thing called personality.