4,826 Quotes About Self

When the realization of what is beneficial and harmful in worldly life sets in, meaning the awareness of all aspects of what is beneficial in worldly life and all aspects of what is harmful in worldly life arises; that is when complete awareness (jagruti) related to worldly life arises. After complete awareness of worldly life has arisen, then the awareness regarding what is beneficial and harmful to the Self arises.

Nothing is going to come under Your control, nor should anything be taken into control, just keep Knowing. 'You' [the Self] are the Knower-Seer-full of eternal bliss.

To keep Knowing is Your intrinsic nature. To keep getting spoiled is the nature of the non-Self complex (pudgal).

All actions are of the non-Self complex (pudgal), they are of the prakruti (relative self) and they are not under Your control.

Disapproval of self is the worst disease imaginable.

In one way, what I saw in those mirrors was the self trapped inside the self, forever.But in another way, the self in the mirror was opening out, in an infinite unfurling.I am the one whose drive is being thwarted.And I am the one who is thwarting it.

It is not simply that suppression of self is required before accurate vision can be obtained. The great artist sees his objects (and this is true whether they are sad, absurd, repulsive or even evil) in a light of justice and mercy. The direction of attention is, contrary to nature, outward, away from self which reduces all to a false unity, towards the great surprising variety of the world, and the ability so to direct attention is love.

Someone who hates one group will end up hating everyone - and, ultimately, hating himself or herself.

She sang lead, and I belted out the background voice that just repeated, "You're everything everything everything," and I felt like I was. You're both the fire and the water that extinguishes it. You're the narrator, the protagonist, and the sidekick. You're the storyteller and the story told. You are somebody's something, but you are also you.