Quotes About Self

So what if you can see The darkest side of me. No one will ever change this animal I have become. Help me believe It's not the real me. Somebody help me tame this animal I have become.

This is what spiritual development means—the recognition, realization, and manifestation of the Spirit within us.

It isn't the words we speak that make us who we are. Or even the deeds we do. It is the secrets buried in our hearts.

From the time she was in her teens, Sera has been fascinated by this paradox—how a body that we occupy, that we have worn like a coat from the moment of our birth—from before birth, even—is still a stranger

Now my own self is the enemy, and sentient beings are the friends.

Therefore hold this fact of not being the object of your own

So long as I fail to view this [the self] as the enemy, so long will I continue to seek the well-being of this self.

pursuing virtuous activities in the pure realms. Therefore, those capable of training the mind are not vulnerable to the proliferation of the five degenerations and remain contented. If you know how to train the mind, even your body, the body of a mind training yogi, is known as the "city that is a source of joy." For all happiness—of this and future lives, of self and others—comes

Always be yourself. Unless you can be me. Then always be me.' And here's another one…

Hiii!' she shouted. 'I'm Charlii. With two i's.' 'We all have two eyes,' Shane muttered.

So instead of writing about Gia, a witch who uses her powers to fight for a man, I'm fighting for myself.

even though the false self is meant to protect the more vulnerable self, it actually has the effect of weakening it. When people who have become dependent on false-self functioning go into therapy or enter a 12-step program, they can go through a period of feeling very vulnerable and shaky because they are removing their coping strategy and exposing the pain underneath it. But over time, new healthy emotional habits get created, and new ways of healthy coping get practiced and adopted.

Healing trauma is healing codependency. As historical pain is processed rather than projected and the self becomes more distinct and present oriented, codependent behaviors begin to clear up naturally.

This ability makes us more available to all of life. It builds self-confidence and inner strength.

Why is erasing desire seen as so important? If the subjugation of the self is the point of the self what's the point in having a self? It's like someone handing you a leaflet which says throw this leaflet away.

Emily didn't search to belong, she searched to be lost

I could blame my existential sadness on a lot of issues, but the truth is, it's been a part of me since Day One.

You don't just go to college to get a job. You go to discover who you are.

No one can be cured of being who they are.

There is only one person who needs to be convinced that you're a writer. That would be you.

I may wonder what kind of mission God has for me, when I should be asking what kind of me God wants for his mission.

If you practice law without a license, they arrest you. And then you're allowed to be a lawyer and represent yourself. What is that bullshit?

Think about how many dreams die with people - if you don't believe in yourself, whatever you're doing is for no reason.

There's no reason to think that you'll be capable of loyalty to a diet until you address your basic disloyalty toward yourself.