Quotes About Self

Identity is destiny.

You are your own prophet.

If you want to make something in your own image, you must sacrifice a part of yourself.

When we face the Abyss, we stare into a mirror. In Shinto temples, there is a mirror. The purpose of this mirror is to remind the Murid of the fact that to see REALITY, it is necessary to see both oneself and the illusory nature of the self.

The brain is a mirror that reflects the One Mind. The mirror is a sacred object. For verily we are the mirror reflections of The Ancient Holy One. In looking at your mirror reflection you see The Only One.

A sigil is a symbol. It is a pattern that can represent to the subconscious mind your desired goal. What is its practical magickal potential? A sigil can release the long dormant energies contained within the self. Through working with the sigil you can bring to waking manifestation anything contained in the various levels of the subconscious. It can animate any archetypal force lying latent within you.

Each human being contains the Essence within himself or herself, but the knowledge remains latent in most people.

Therefore, humanity's unconsciousness of its identity, is the Shadow of the Supreme Reality.

A certain 'spiritual' ethic endures that would have us deny our physical selves. The reality is that the body is nothing but physical soul.

You acknowledge that you are both the one praying and the one being prayed to.

We don't so much have LEVELS as ASPECTS. It might be a lot more healthy to think of ourselves as having various aspects rather than hierarchies of levels.

If you can go to the place of the deepest parts of yourself, and then proceed from that profundity, you can manifest real magick.

Regardless of age, Connection types, at some level, often feel like frightened children in an adult world. Because of their inadequate sense of self, they often try to anchor themselves in their roles as scientist, judge, doctor, father, mother, etc.

This is a book about restoring connection. It is the experience of being in connection that fulfills the longing we have to feel fully alive. An impaired capacity for connection to self and others, and the ensuing diminished aliveness, are the hidden dimensions that underlie most psychological and many physiological problems.

In a healing cycle, connection to our body, emotions, and life force allows for greater connection with others, and in turn, connection with others supports greater connection to ourselves. The connection that has always been our deepest desire is now no longer our greatest fear.

Toxic shame begins as an adaptation to adverse childhood experiences. Shame is the mechanism of disconnecting from and attacking the Self. Shame becomes a survival strategy to protect against attachment loss and environmental failure, which are experienced as loss of love in the universe. When shame occurs early in a child's development, their sense of Self becomes associated with shame.

There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.

Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners

To write a book is for all the world like humming a song—be but in tune with yourself, madam, 'tis no matter how high or how low you take it.

Hell, everybody is a masochist. Some of us are just a little more private.

And yet this self, contains Tides, continents and stars?a myriad selves, Is small and solitary as one grass-blade Passed over by the wind Amongst a myriad grasses on the prairie.

For the first time in his life, he is unremarkable, and this feels like power.

Some pictures belong to the person who took them. And some belong to the person inside them.

she did not know how to be anything else.