Quotes About Self

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

There is a finely translated epigram in the greek anthology which admirably expresses this state of mind, this acceptance of loss as unatoned for, even tho the lost element might be one's self: 'A shipwrecked sailor, buried on this coast, bids you set sail. Full many a gallant bark, when we were lost, weathered the gal.

Often we have tried to segregate ourselves from it all. We have found three refuges: ourselves, our books . . . our friends . . . the lakes and woods around Berlin.

I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.

I differ with myself then agree, like the rock that was broken and cemented together. I change my opinion.

I always stayed. I can't say I chose to stay as I felt quite without traction, without capacity to find myself or anything.

Everything has changed. I cannot be used anymore. Those days are over. I know too much. What I do now, I do for me.

Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.

Who is not satisfied with himself will grow; who is not sure of his own correctness will learn many things.

Perfect morality can be declared and lived up to only by him who has sought to live and discover his real identity with the Self, which is ONE-WITHOUT-A-SECOND, EVERYWHERE, IN ALL BEINGS AND FORMS.

Man awakened to the Self's Glory is God; God forgetful of His own glory is the deluded man!

The ?tman, the pure Consciousness, gets Itself deluded by Its own delusion and by Itself projects out the 'pluralistic world' which is nothing but Itself, It being the all-pervading and eternal.

The more we identify ourselves with the little 'I' in us,

Nobody can teach me who I am.

You do not know me,' said Tortoise. 'I am a changed man. I have learned that a man who makes trouble for others makes trouble for himself.

The researchers have found, in essence, that our advice to others tends to hinge on the single most important factor, while our own thinking flits among many variables. When we think of our friends, we see the forest. When we think of ourselves, we get stuck in the trees.§

How can you make your change a matter of identity rather than a matter of consequences?

Defining moments rewire our understanding of ourselves or the world.

Because identities are central to the way people make decisions, any change effort that violates someone's identity is likely doomed to failure. (That's why it's so clumsy when people instinctively reach for "incentives" to change other people's behavior.)

Even the wisest don't know what's hidden in the depths of their being

each person is distinct, separate. That ultimately we are each alone

For isn't that what our homes are ultimately, our fantasies made corporeal, our secret selves exposed? The converse is also true: we grow to become that which we live within.

In your yearning you have made me into that which I am not.

For isint that what our homes are ultimately, our fantasies made corporeal, our secret selves exposed?