Quotes About Identity

But we cannot really honor things if we use them as a means to self-enhancement, that is to say, if we try to find ourselves through them.

To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time. The compulsion arises because the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whatever form. Both are illusions. Life is Now.

What a liberation to realize that the "voice in my head" is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that. The awareness that is prior to thought, the space in which the thought—or the emotion or sense perception—happens.

I cannot live with myself any longer." This was the thought that kept repeating itself in my mind. Then suddenly I became aware of what a peculiar thought it was. "Am I one or two? If I cannot live with myself, there must be two of me: the 'I' and the 'self' that 'I' cannot live with." "Maybe," I thought, "only one of them is real.

Nesmíte zapomínat, že ego potÃ…â"¢ebuje problémy a nepÃ…â"¢átele, aby posílilo sv?j pocit odlou?enosti, na níž závisí jeho totožnost.

Ego is no more than this: identification with form, which primarily means thought forms. If evil has any reality—and it has a relative, not an absolute, reality—this is also its definition: complete identification with form—physical forms, thought forms, emotional forms.

who you are is always a more vital teaching and a more powerful transformer of the world than what you say, and more essential even than what you do.

Pienso, luego existo".

Once you have disidentified with yourself whether you are right or wrong makes no difference to your sense of self at all

Spiritual realization is to see clearly that what I perceive, experience, think, or feel is ultimately not who I am, that I cannot find myself in all those things that continuously pass away.

You are not the ego, so when you become aware of the ego in you, it does not mean you know who you are - it means you know who you are not. But it is through knowing who you are not that the greatest obstacle to truly knowing yourself is removed.

watch out for any kind of defensiveness within you, What are you defending? an illusionary identity, an image in your mind,a fictional entity

True self is rooted in being

The stronger the ego, the more time takes over your life. Almost every thought you think is then concerned with past or future, and your sense of self depends on the past for your identity and on the future for its fulfillment.

A victim identity is the belief that the past is more powerful than the present, which is the opposite of the truth. It is the belief that other people and what they did to you are responsible for who you are now, for your emotional pain or your inability to be your true self. The truth is that the only power there is contained within this moment: It is the power of your presence.

To be free of time is to be free of the psychological need of past for your identity and future for your fulfillment. It represents the most profound transformation of consciousness that you can imagine.

the pain-body is there because of certain things that happened in the past. It is the living past in you, and if you identify with it, you identify with the past.

Most of the time it is not you who speaks when you say or think "I" but some aspect of that mental construct, the egoic self. Once you awaken, you still use the word "I," but it will come from a much deeper place within yourself.

Some people never forget the first time they disidentified from their thoughts and thus briefly experienced the shift in identity from being the content of their mind to being the awareness in the background. For others it happens in such a subtle way they hardly notice it, or they just notice an influx of joy or inner peace without knowing the reason.

The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical appearance, special abilities, relationships, personal and family history, belief systems, and often also political, nationalistic, racial, religious, and other collective identifications.

The unconscious compulsion to enhance one's identity through association with an object is built into the very structure of the egoic mind.

When you don't know who you are, you create a mind-made self as a substitute for your beautiful, divine being and cling to that fearful and needy self. Protecting and enhancing that false sense of self then becomes your primary motivating force.

Cuanto más te identificas con el pensamiento, con lo que te gusta o disgusta, con tus juicios e interpretaciones, es decir, cuanto menos presente estás como conciencia observante, más fuerte es la carga de energía emocional, seas consciente de ella o no. Si no puedes sentir tus emociones, si estás desconectado de ellas, acabarás sintiéndolas a un nivel puramente físico, como un problema o síntoma físico.

What a liberation to realize that the voice in my head is not who i am. Who am i then? The one who sees that.