Self Quotes - Page 14

A little kingdom I possess Where thoughts and feelings dwell And very hard the task I find Of governing it well.

It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself but the most inconvenient one too.

Where are you looking for samadhi (enlightened blissful state)? You just come into your own original Self-form of the Soul, final liberation and samadhi are the natural qualities of the Soul!

Service is not something you do. It is something you are.

I'd rather strive for the kind of interview where instead of me asking to introduce myself to society, society asks me to introduce myself to society.

Why do people often feel bad in good environments and good in bad environments? Why did Mother Teresa think that affluent Westerners often seemed poorer than the Calcutta poor, the poorest of the poor? The paradox comes to pass because the impoverishments and enrichments of a self in a world are not necessarily the same as the impoverishments and enrichments of an organism in an environment.

Next to God we are indebted to women first for life itself and then for making it worth living.

Human nature, essentially changeable, unstable as the dust, can endure no restraint; if it binds itself it soon begins to tear madly at its bonds, until it renders everything asunder, the wall, and the bonds and its very self.

For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.

The efficient man is the man who thinks for himself.

He who wants to go to moksha (Final Liberation), he will have to realize his own self. Otherwise no matter how much of anything else he does, he will not attain moksha (liberation).

Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

How frustrating to think you can be lost to yourself. And yet how often it is that a stranger stares back at you from the mirror. Maybe in truth we never see ourselves as clearly as the thousands of eyes that daily take us in.

He liked to get off by himself, a mile or so from camp, and listen to the country, not the men.

The goal of privacy is not to protect some stable self from erosion but to create boundaries where this self can emerge, mutate, and stabilize.

Do for yourself or do without.

We only betray ourselves.

afflictions are classed as peripheral mental factors and are not themselves any of the six main minds [eye, ear, nose, tongue, body and mental consciousnesses]. however, when any of the afflicting mental factors becomes manifest, a main mind [a mental consciousness] comes under its influence, goes wherever the affliction leads it, and 'accumulates' a bad action.there are a great many different kinds of afflictions, but the chief of them are desire, hatred, pride, wrong view and so forth. of these, desire and hatred are chief. because of an initial attachment to oneself, hatred arises when something undesirable occurs. further, through being attached to oneself the pride that holds one to be superior arises, and similarly when one has no knowledge of something, a wrong view that holds the object of this knowledge to be non-existent arises.how do self-attachment and so forth arise in such great force? because of beginningless conditioning, the mind tightly holds to 'i, i' even in dreams, and through the power of this conception, self-attachment and so forth occur. this false conception of 'i' arises because of one's lack of knowledge concerning the mode of existence of things. the fact that all objects are empty of inherent existence is obscured and one conceives things to exist inherently; the strong conception of 'i' derives from this. therefore, the conception that phenomena inherently exist is the afflicting ignorance that is the ultimate root of all afflictions.

I want to unfold.I don’t want to be folded anywhere,because where I am folded,there I am a lie.

One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?

The Self, when finite, is Human and when infinite, is God.

I am not belittling the brave pioneer men but the sunbonnet as well as the sombrero has helped to settle this glorious land of ours.

I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor - to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself.

Confidence is like a dragon where, for every head cut off, two more heads grow back.

What fear do you have? You, yourself are the absolute Self! If absolute-Self becomes fearful, then the whole universe will have fear! ‘We’ are on the other side of the prakruti [relative self’s world].

At times we convince ourselves, we have something to lose but in fact, who you are and your being remains intact.

Soul (Atma), Absolute Knowledge (Gnan) and the Absolute Supreme Soul (Parmatma) are one and the same element.

I have travelled many places but still I find that perhaps the greatest journey is through one's own mind.

The ability to take pride in your own work is one of the hallmarks of sanity.

But even a vessel pulsates, beats and pumps in ecstasy and in rage!I wonder are the way we are because we are trying to protect ourselves from the “monsters” not realizing this fear that we are harboring inside us is turning us into goblins and ghouls ourselves? Not even a heart caged inside of ribs can be protected. Who can really be to blame for your broken heart?In-turn we find our own vices , our own ways to cope, ways that we petrify our bodies our lives in such a fashion so we can stop and notice the stars sparkling in the sky everything and everyone that embodies love YOUR LOVE… and every spec dancing in our own light, specs we failed to see because of our own faults.

Mrs. Baker's social manner was almost robotlike in its perfection. All her comments and remarks were natural, normal, everyday currency, but one had a suspicion that the whole thing was like an actor playing a part for perhaps the seven hundredth time. It was an automatic performance, completely divorced from what Mrs. Baker might really have been thinking or feeling.

He lived at a little distance from his body, regarding his own acts with doubtful side-glasses.

The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.

Life I fancy would very often be insupportable but for the luxury of self-compassion.

Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.

Passion, patient, perseverance and persistent are four keys to great achievements.

Directing praise to oneself is to cash in on the ego in order to bankrupt the soul.

As soon as you trust yourself you will know how to live.

We who are born into this age of freedom and independence and the self must undergo this loneliness. It is the price we pay for these times of ours.

Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are. We are often like rivers: careless and forceful, timid and dangerous, lucid and muddied, eddying, gleaming, still.

There is no old age. There is, as there always was, only you.

A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.

Devotion to self is necessary. First, place the mask on yourself and breathe deeply. Then help the others. If you don’t save yourself, they will die.

I wash off the night in the water, my scrapes and aches numbed by the sea. My bones have become boughs, all scarred knees and gnarled kuckles. None of us are the same person we once were, since the human body replaces itself every seven years; there have been at least six different mes.

Interest in the lives of others the high evaluation of these lives what are they but the overflow of the interest a man finds in himself the value he attributes to his own being?

Criticisms of a society filled with fools have no power in them to bother the sage that has emerged from the agonizing fire of misery.

I just want to live my own life instead of everyone else’s version of it.

There is no God besides the Self. One who knows the Self, knows God.

He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without.

There comes a time when all that remains for us to do is to surrender to the idiosyncrasies of our nature.

Happiness is a conscious choice not an automatic response.

Ambition old as mankind the immemorial weakness of the strong.

Because genius is a characteristic of consciousness, genius is also universal. That which is universal is, therefore, theoretically available to every man. The process of creativity and genius are inherent in human consciousness. Inasmuch as every human has within himself the same essence of consciousness, genius is a potential that resides within everyone. It awaits only the right circumstances to express it.

If there is no wind row.

The fundamental problem most patients have is an inability to love themselves having been unloved by others during some crucial part of their lives.

Non-judgment quiets the internal dialogue, and this opens once again the doorway to creativity.

Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.

Real happiness and peace is attained only if one comes into one’s true Self.

Though the 'Thou' is not an 'It', it is also not "another 'I'". He who treats a person as "another 'I'" does not really see that person but only a projected image of himself. Such a relation, despite the warmest "personal" feeling is really 'I'-'It'.

Keep your best wishes, close to your heart and watch what happens