4,826 Quotes About Self

رحلة الإنسان لإكتشاف نفسه فإنها خبطة عشوائية في الفراغ .. في أغوار نفس مظلمة ليس لها سقف ولا قاع و لا خريطة ولا معالم

The man who has forgotten self may be said to have entered Heaven.

When a man does not dwell in self, then things will of themselves reveal their forms to him. His movement is like that of water, his stillness like that of a mirror, his responses like those of an echo.

I suspected once that any human life, however intricate and full it might be, consisted in reality of one moment: the moment when a man knows for all time who he is.

When I became too much myself, I had to change my life.

We may take it that the world is undoubtedly itself [i.e., is indistinct from itself], but, in any attempt to see itself, as an object, it must, equally, undoubtedly act so as to make itself distinct from and therefore false to itself.In this sense, in respect to its own information, the universe must expand to escape the telescopes through which we, who are it, are trying to capture it, which is us.

A Coy Aversion...a fluttertoo shyto be seen...

It follows that I must accept myself for what I am before I can deliberately change it.

What you usually refer to when you say “I” is not who you are. By a monstrous act of reductionism, the infinite depth of who you are is confused with a sound produced by the vocal cords or the thought of “I” in your mind and whatever the “I” has identified with.