Quotes About Self

In Buddhism, ignorance as the root cause of suffering refers to a fundamental misperception of the true nature of the self and all phenomena.

Everything we see in nature is manifested truth; only we are not able to recognize it unless truth is manifest within ourselves.

As we gaze into the mirror it holds up for us, we too easily imagine that what we behold is Nature when in fact we see the reflection of our own unexamined longings and desires.

You know that you are. Don't burden yourself with names, just be. Any name or shape you give yourself obscures your real nature.

The main obstacle to our development is our lack of knowledge about the nature of consciousness itself.

Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.

The fact is that man has no longing for any other nature but desires only to be perfect in his own.

One of the truest things to commit to is your own nature.

My way is to develop the hidden potentialities of man; a way that is against Nature and against God.

A neurosis is wherever we are allied against our true nature.

Self-preservation is the first principle of our nature.

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

Your own nature is pure, spotless, and pristine. Through association we drag ourselves down or we can raise ourselves up.

Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.

I look at nature, I see myself. Paintings are mirrors, so is nature.

It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me. Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?

Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man's own making.

Strange mystery of our nature, that those in whom genius develops itself in imagination, thus taking its most ethereal form, should yet be the most dependent on the opinions of others!

Mankind's ability to understand and control the forces of nature greatly exceeds our ability to govern ourselves

Why should I be ashamed to describe what nature was not ashamed to create?

We are not ourselves When nature, being oppressed, commands the mind To suffer with the body.

Realisation is our nature. It is nothing new to be gained. What is new cannot be eternal. Therefore there is no need for doubting if one would lose or gain the Self.

Man, before he is being regenerated, does not even know that any internal man exists, much less is he acquainted with its nature and quality.

You see, nature will do exactly what it must, and if we are a hindrance to its development, to even its destructive powers to reform itself and we are in a way, we will go.