Quotes About Self

What is troubling us is the tendency to believe that the mind is like a little man within.

As a wise man once said: Wherever you go, there you are.

Without seeing the origin of light, the true form of one's Self, the ordinary man sees by the mind different things and is deluded.

You don't need to marry a man with millions. You only need to be your exquisite self.

No man can change himself into anything from sheer reason; he can only change into what he potentially is.

A man must completely despair of himself in order to become fit to obtain the grace of Christ.

All men contain several men inside them, and most of us bounce from one self to another without ever knowing who we are.

Myth expresses in terms of the world - that is, of the other world or the second world - the understanding that man has of himself in relation to the foundation and the limit of his existence.

Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought, though it might rather puzzle him to do that.

There is no mind to control if you realise the self. The mind having vanished, the self shines forth. In the realised man, the mind may be active or inactive, the self remains for him.

The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.

Man must be invented each day

All men would be masters of others, and no man is lord of himself.

Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.

Eventually every man gotta face the problem of tryin' to figger if it's worthwhile to prove that he is himself.

Whatever coast he's on, a man should be himself. I don't write in any particular idiom, I write Charles Mingus.

No man can put on the robes of Christ's righteousness till he has taken off his own.

I'm a holy man minus the holiness.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

A man's interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself.

I believe that every individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruits of his labor, so far as it in no way interferes with any other men's rights.

No man gives anything acceptable to God until has has first given himself in love and sacrifice.

When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique.

MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be.