Self Quotes
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The sense of being a separate, egoic self begins with the astral, not with the physical, body. The soul is individualized spirit.
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To fight against the infidels is Jihad; but to fight against your evil self is greater Jihad.
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The Self of everyone, the Atma of everyone, the transcendental field of reality of everyone, is the same in everyone. Whether the body calls itself an American, German, Indian or Chinese, it doesn't matter.
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Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.
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The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.
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I think my younger self would be more amazed to know I was doing an interview for 'The Spectator.'
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Until we recognize the SELF that exists apart from who we think we are - we cannot know the Ch'an ( ZEN ) MIND
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Your constant utilization of thought to give continuity to your separate self is you. There is nothing there inside you other than that.
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Find a model of great education in history and you will find a great teacher who inspired students to make the hard choice to study. Wherever you find such a teacher, you will also find self-motivated students who study hard. When students study hard, learning occurs.
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Know that what appears to be Love for an 'other' is really Love of Self because 'other' doesn't exist. So this innermost Love can be given to no 'other'. Love of friends is for the sake of Self, not for body to body. True love has no Lover or Beloved because all Love is Love of Self.
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The word 'self' is as great a mystery as the word 'other'. It's just a polarity between two mysteries.
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Note to self: no matter how bad life gets, there's always beer.
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I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.
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And that's where the whole trouble is. We're too much alike to understand each other because we don't even understand our own selves.
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My external sensations are no less private to my self than are my thoughts or my feelings. In either case my experience falls within my own circle, a circle closed on the outside... the whole world for each is peculiar and private to that soul.
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Singing is about telling a story. When you are onstage, you get to be your own self... When acting, you're someone else.
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In any Christian view of life, self-fulfillment must never be permitted to become the controlling issue. The issue is service, the service of real people. The question is, 'How can I be most useful?', not, 'How can I feel most useful?'
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A thing that happens to migrants is that they lose many of the traditional things which root identity, which root the self.
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They were still in the happier stages of love. They were full of brave illusions about each other, tremendous illusions, so that the communion of self with self seemed to be on a plane where no other human relations mattered.
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Reverence is the sense that there is something larger than the self, larger even than the human, to which one accords respect and awe and assent.
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The feeling of being valuable - 'I am a valuable person'- is essential to mental health and is a cornerstone of self-discipline.
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If there is anything about your 'self' of which you can be sure, it is that it is anchored in your own body and yours alone. The person you experience as 'you' is here and now and nowhere else.
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There is no more reason to accuse ourselves excessively of our failings than to excuse them overmuch. He who goes overboard in self-criticism often does so in order not to suffer others' criticisms, or else does so out of a kind of vanity that wishes to make others believe that he knows how to confess his faults.
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When the heat and motion of blind impulses and passions distract it on all sides, we can neither give nor receive anything truly. But when we find our centre in our soul by the power of self-restraint, by the force that harmonizes all warring element
