Quotes About Self

Genesis' saying that we are made in the likeness of God does not mean that God looks a little like us, with a face and a body, arms and legs, but that at the time of the creation of the first man and woman, human beings did not know or care about a tangible likeness, about the fact that they had bodies. The awareness of them is an invention of the human self, idolatrously preoccupied with wanting something to look at in the mirror.

As any good teacher of dreams will tell you, you are all the people in your dream. Fritz Perls taught, "[All] the different parts, any part in the dream-is yourself, is a projection of yourself."22 And to ask why we made our story this way and not that way is to reenter our sacred text once again as living participants. We could have made it another way, but chose to cast it in this one. We must be all the parts of our dream, even the ones we don't like.

To Laver, Crowley insisted upon magic as "something we do to ourselves," a rational use of one's mental capacities: "It is more convenient to assume the objective existence of an Angel who gives us new knowledge than to allege that our invocation has awakened a supernatural power in ourselves.

Crowley—the universe reflects the self and the self the universe, an infinite chain of myriad changes that the magus alone can encompass. As

Johnson, how is the Captain gonna authorize a surprise birthday party for himself?

It's not a weapon or a woman can make a man, or magery either, or any power, anything but himself.

It's the self that suffers, and there's a place where the self--ceases. I don't know how to say it. But I believe that the reality--the truth that I recognize in suffering as I don't in comfort and happiness--that the reality of pain is not pain. If you can get through it. If you can endure it all the way.

We are at the mercy of our own narrative impulses.

A self without a shelf remains cryptic; a home without books naked.

Vervuld worden met de heilige geest is kiezen voor de hemel van het geïntegreerde en geëmancipeerde ik boven de hel van het gedesintegreerde en afgescheiden ik

A man who denies his past is a man who truly denies himself a future, for he refuses to know himself.

You are a God Act like one!

leary timothy iii

Followers do not like themselves, of course; that's why they crawl. And masters have nothing but contempt for their subservants, which is why they impose such colorful embarrassments upon them.

The classical man is just a bundle of routine, ideas and tradition. If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow -- you are not understanding yourself.

All types of knowledge, ultimately mean self knowledge.

There are few things we can control; our emotions are not among them.

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Religion, like all things, begins with self, And naught is known, until one knows himself.

School gives you the freedom to explore different philosophies, religions, aspects of yourself, and subjects.

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I hurt, therefore I am.

I never sort of thought of myself as a comedy writer, by nature.

I was having a little vision problem." "Oh no." Creigh leaned in closer to him and peered intently into his eyes, as if her supermom powers could see right through his corneas and to the issue at hand. "What"s wrong?" "I couldn"t see myself going to work today.