4,826 Quotes About Self

I don’t want to praise myself. Rather, I want to praise the thing that saves me from myself. Hence there is God.

.. I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men. This I have known ever since I stretched out my fingers to the abomination within that great gilded frame; stretched out my fingers and touched a cold and unyielding surface of polished glass.

What good is it to seek our happiness in the opinion of others if we cannot find it in ourselves?

All liberation depends on the consciousness of servitude and the emergence of this consciousness is always hampered by the predominance of needs and satisfactions which, to a great extent, have become the individual's own.

The prevalence of the application as the Self in the applied awareness as the Self is absolute Knowledge.

We are only able to disrespect, mistreat, and harm one another when we forget that the other person is us; when we only see the objects of form, and not the subjective Consciousness that lies within. Lust, greed, violence, selfishness—all arise from perceiving others in terms of their individual differences, seeing them only as bodies, and what we can get from them as bodies, rather than acknowledging the Being that lies within the body.

Acting out rather than speaking out became a pattern.

Sometimes I think we would lose ourselves altogether if it were not for our stubborn, irrepressible symptoms, calling us, requiring us, to recollect ourselves, to reorient ourselves to life.

Compassion is the desire that moves the individual self to widen the scope of its self-concern to embrace the whole of the universe self.