Quotes About I

What we most need is what we already are: our essential Self. There is no escape; there is only coming home [...] The submission of the lower self to the Higher Self, of the self to the Whole in each moment, becomes the central fact of existence. Submission is to live for one's Self - the eternal I - not for one's ego..." ? Kabir Edmund Helminski, Living Presence: A Sufi Way to Mindfulness & the Essential Self

What we most need is what we already are: our essential Self. There is no escape; there is only coming home [...] The submission of the lower self to the Higher Self, of the self to the Whole in each moment, becomes the central fact of existence. Submission is to live for one's Self - the eternal I - not for one's ego...

I love you" begins by I, but it ends up by you. ("Je t'aime" commence par Je, - Mais il finit par toi.)

A subject and a sovereign are clean different things.

It is satisfying for the descendant of a dissident refugee from Elizabeth I to present his credentials to Elizabeth II.

I steal scenes, I steal opportunities. I am the ultimate thief. I got sticky fingers, man. They all call me The Thief.

Ah, the 'I told you so'", Jace said. "Always a classy move.

Us evaporates and becomes you and me, adversaries in a cold world of I win, you lose.

Yes, sir," said I; "him too; late of this parish.

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It is I who was, if there were any. What I had thought to be myself was not myself, but was my experience. I am all that there is, and it is myself who will be, whoever there will be. It is I who am the source, the traveler, and the goal of this existence. 'Verily truth is all the religion there is; and it is truth which will save.

The daughter of debate That still discord doth sow.

Marc Bloch was born in 1886, fought in World War I,

Rain, rain, go away, come back when I am marathoning anime.

I like to turn the venue into a jungle gym, into my playground.

I can be the best mistake you ever make, I assure you of that.

I haven't had a chance to talk, but I'm confident we'll get a bill that I can live with if we don't.

Don't believe that the book is losing sight of you, Reader. The you that was shifted to the Other Reader can, at any sentence, be addressed to you again. You are always a possible you. Who would dare to sentence you to the loss of the you, a catastrophe as terrible as the loss of the I. For a second-person discourse to become a novel, at least two you's are required, distinct and concomitant, which stand out from the crowd of he's, she's and they's.

What was it Oscar Wilde said?" "I can resist everything except temptation.

As long as I am acting out of love, I feel I am doing best I know how.

How much suffering and fear, and How many harmful things are in existence? If all arises from clinging to the "I", What should I do with this great demon?

Not you, not I: the forgetting will forget me in you, and the impersonal remembrance will efface me from that which remembers.

It's probably not coincidental that corsets passed from the world at the same time as "fainting couches.") But it wasn't health concerns that killed the corset; it was World War I. The need for metal for ammunition led the US War Industries Board in 1917 to urge women to stop buying corsets. Serendipitously, the very first modern bra had been patented only three years earlier, by debutante Caresse Crosby.

An idol-house of six dimensions is this world; for this Somnath, has all by it, been created.* It is not in its way, for it to go on repeating… I'm not you, you are not I; this, I'm repeating!