Quotes About Self

What happens to the mind after bereavement makes no sense until later... what the mind does after losing one's father isn't just to pick new fathers from the world, but pick new selves to love them with.

Promises that are broken, again and again, through fear, through loss of nerve, through any number of things that hide that deep desire, at heart, to obliterate one's broken self.

What happens to the mind after bereavement makes no sense until later. Even as I watched I'd half-realised Prideaux was a figure I'd picked out for a father. But what I should have realised, too, on those northern roads, is that what the mind does after losing one's father isn't just to pick new fathers from the world, but pick new selves to love them with.

The Wizard of Oz, a master narrative of the questing journey, not only tells us that there will be disenchantment with the object of the quest, disenchantment perhaps built into any relationship that is based on idealization, but also stresses that what the seeker is really looking for is to be found in herself. Indeed, it is a cliché of the pilgrimage that it fundamentally involves the universal quest for the self.

what they'd been afraid of was running out of self. On the contrary the more they loved the more there was to love.

Miss Foxe occasionally wondered if she spent her life approaching invisibility and had finally arrived at it.

There was . . . a mirror that crawled across the wall in a wooden frame. When I go into Miri's room all I can see, all I can think of is that enormous mirror, like a lake on the wall.

The situation improved once it occurred to them that they should also talk; as they came to understand each other they learned that what they'd been afraid of was running out of self. On the contrary the more they loved the more there was to love

You look on chaos and proclaim it as yourself.

To the struggling-self, it is a prison; to the awakening-Self, it is classroom

You are the work of God, and His work is wholly lovable and wholly loving. 2This is how you must think of yourself in your heart,51 because this is what you are.52

Bendigo al mundo porque me bendigo a mí mismo.

5 Y cuando miramos en nuestro interior, vemos brillar la pureza del Cielo en nuestro reflejo del Amor de nuestro Padre.

Son únicamente tus pensamientos los que te causan dolor. 2 Nada externo a tu mente puede herirte o hacerte daño en modo alguno. 3 No hay causa más allá de ti mismo que pueda abatirse sobre ti y oprimirte. 4 Nadie, excepto tú mismo, puede afectarte. 5 No hay nada en el mundo capaz de hacerte enfermar, de entristecerte o de debilitarte. 6 Eres tú el que tiene el poder de dominar todas las cosas que ves reconociendo simplemente lo que eres.

buscamos en otros lo que consideramos que nos falta a nosotros.

3 El ego es un intento de la mente errada para que te percibas a ti mismo tal como deseas ser, en vez de como realmente eres. 4 Sin embargo, sólo te puedes conocer a ti mismo como realmente eres, ya que de eso es de lo único que puedes estar seguro. 5 Todo lo demás es cuestionable.

Not one does Christ forget. Not one He fails to give you to remember, that your home may be complete and perfect as it was established. He has not forgotten you. But you will not remember Him until you look on all as He does. Who denies his brother is denying Him, and thus refusing to accept the gift of sight by which his Self is clearly recognized, his home remembered and salvation come.

better dead than ugly. And don't French women know it.

Virtue and wisdom are sublime things, but if they create pride and a consciousness of separateness from the rest of humanity, they are only the snakes of self reappearing in a finer form.

The slumber of the "I" is at the root of most suffering.

Every position in life is balanced by creating a harmony between the inner self and the surrounding world.

And I too am not myself, hoping for refuge in a metaphor that will contain it all.

What annoys a person who suicides? The life itself. Boredom. Tiredness that descends on every morning when you look at yourself at the mirror.

For a conscious being, to exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.