Quotes About Identity

la concepción que tiene el hombre de sí mismo, determina lo que ve que su mundo es.

Elevarse al nivel de cualquier estado es convertirse automáticamente la expresión de ese estado. Pero, para elevarse al nivel que no estás expresando ahora, debes abandonar completamente la conciencia con la que te identificas ahora. Mientras no abandones tu conciencia actual, no podrás elevarte a otro nivel.

With Emerson, I accept the fact that: "Man surrounds himself with the true image of himself…what we are, that only can we see.

I tell you it is possible to be anything you want to be, for the believer and the God of the universe are one. Don't divorce yourself from God, for he is your I AMness. Believe in your I AMness, for if you do not you will never fulfill your desire. Only by assuming you already are the one you would like to be will you achieve it. It's just as simple as that.

This revelation is so wonderful that when man first hears it he wants to acquire it all at once; but he finds that, after numberless years spent in the belief of being man, he has so completely forgotten his true identity that he is now incapable of absorbing this memory all at once. He also discovers that he can do so only in proportion to his letting go of all human values and opinions.

You and your conception of yourself are one. You are and always will be greater than any conception you will ever have of yourself.

At this moment you are aware of being, but you are also aware of being someone. This someone is the veil that hides the being you really are. You are first conscious of being, then you are conscious of being man.

YO SOY" representa la esencia de nuestra identidad y la relación intrínseca con la divinidad. Es la afirmación más pura y fundamental de nuestra existencia y la conexión con todo lo que es. Es el reconocimiento de nosotros mismos como una parte integral de la divinidad.

What you must strive after is being. In order to do, it is necessary to be. The end of yearning is to be. Your concept of yourself can only be driven out of consciousness by another concept of yourself. By creating an ideal in your mind, you can identify yourself with it until you become one and the same with the ideal, thereby transforming yourself with it.

Nunca atraes aquello que deseas, sino siempre aquello que eres.

Whom do you say that I AM?" This is not a question asked two thousands years ago. It is the eternal question addressed to the manifestation by the conceiver. It is your true self, your awareness of being, asking you, its present conception of itself, "Who do you believe your awareness to be?" This answer can be defined only within yourself regardless of the influence of another.

Jesus realised that the world was made in the likeness of man. He knew that man saw his world to be what it was because man was what he was. In short, man's conception of himself determines that which he sees his world to be.

Everything in this world invites you to wander away from the I AM. Urged to believe in that pill, this diet, a man, you move away from your true identity and become lost as your consciousness wanders. But it doesn't really matter, for you cannot be lost, as the son of man will come.

El ser humano actúa como lo hace y pasa por las experiencias que tiene, porque su concepto de sí mismo es lo que es, y por ninguna otra razón.

I was with a group of queens, and we started walking up Christopher Street going, "Gay power! Gay power! Gay power!" We walked all the way to Eighth Avenue, and then we all looked at each other and said, "What do we do now?" So we turned round and walked all the way back down Christopher Street, still yelling, "Gay power!

You can't call us fags anymore, we're gay.

I just want you all to know," quipped a platinum blond with obvious glee, "that sometimes being homosexual is a big pain in the ass.

It has been over forty years since the Gay Liberation Front first took trans seriously, but the gay men who wore those shirts with the polo players or alligator emblems didn't want trans people as the representation of their community. Their revisionist history has been accepted into popular culture because they were the ones with connections to publishers, the influence, as well as the money and time to sit back and write about what "really" happened.

Circumstance does not make a man, it reveals him.

Imagine a judicial nominee said 'my experience as a white man makes me better than a Latina woman.' Wouldn't they have to withdraw? New racism is no better than old racism.

Language as culture is the collective memory bank of a people's experience in history.

It was as though they had so saturated themselves with professional behaviourism that they had lost the knack of being natural.

Ah," said Dr. Hart, "this is a pet theory of my own. The actual 'he' is known to nobody." "Does the actual 'he' even exist?" Jonathan returned. "May it not be argued that 'he' has no intrinsic reality since different selfs arise out of a conglomeration of selfs to meet different events?

the "Sonia Gluck as I knew her" gag?