Quotes About Self

Where most people she knew were recognizably constant, Soter comprised a collection of posturings, guises, a composite of masks, so many that she had no idea if any one of them had ever been the true Soter, or if there had never been anything but masks.

If a crystal ball could tell you the truth about any one thing about yourself, life, the future, or anything else, what would you want to know, and why?

No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself.

I don't know. When I was born there was a nurse taking care of me." "What's the matter? Couldn't the nurse take care of herself?" "Sure she could. I just found that out too late.

Why don't you bore a hole in yourself and let the sap run out?

Por el mero hecho de existir la gente se cree con derecho a ser feliz.

Harmony begins within. If we are to influence the world around us, even in minor ways, the real work begins inside and emanates outwards.

You are wrong about that, you know, Dr. Andersen replied calmly. This, right here—us talking, sitting in this overlit room, a bunch of shrinks watching us through the tinted windows—this is the dream. The peace you felt before, that is reality. It is the I. The only part of existence that does not change, that cannot change, that will not change. You may not be ready to understand this quite yet, but if you continue meditating, you will.

A hatalom a félelem legmagasabb rend? megnyilvánulása, amelyet az ember önmaga számára alkot meg, éppen azon er?feszítései révén, melyeket azért tesz, hogy megszabaduljon t?lük.

J'ai tout donné au soleil. Tout sauf mon ombre

Your life is a painting in a dark museum and sometimes you examine it closely

II I'm no longer myself in here I know I'm number fifteen in the eleventh Row

You are your own refuge There is no other You cannot save another You can only save yourself.

Dia tidak terlalu berhasil membereskan kekacauan hidupnya sendiri, tapi dia benar-benar pintar membantu membereskan hidup orang lain. [P. 195]

A key piece of advice from Hermosillo was to have faith in oneself. He would often tell Guillermo, "If a road is not presented, you build one.

No, vanity - that was his weakness: the urge to constantly prove to himself and to others that nothing and no one could withstand him and that his heart didn't know either fear nor pity. Liar. He was afraid of everything. Especially himself.

Fear is the foundation of your identity.

I am a hyphenated person, but I am not falling apart; I am putting together.

The Upanishads trace these problems of the self to our sense of 'Iness' or ahamkara (literally 'I-maker') which is our subjective sense of identity and which has its origin in our consciousness (aham). In classical Sankhya philosophy, the empirical world of the senses and the mind emerges from the evolution of the aham, and liberation from this empirical existence requires the negation of ahamkara.

Owing to ignorance of the rope the rope appears to be a snake; owing to ignorance of the Self the transient state arises of the individualized, limited, phenomenal aspect of the Self.

What should the yogi have to fear? Trees, plants, and all that is inside and outside, is He Himself

The soul is not a single unity; that is what it is destined to become, and that is what we call 'immortality'. Your soul is still composed of many 'selves', just as a colony of ants is composed of many single ants. You bear within you the spiritual remains of many thousand ancestors, the heads of your line.

Everybody could attain this if he had the key. The key consists simply in becoming aware of one's "form of the Self or of one's skin, even though one may be asleep, in discovering the narrow crack through which consciousness slips between waking and deep sleep.

One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.