4,826 Quotes About Self

But now the other half of "us" was gone and, lying there in my shadowy room, I'd be struck with this realization that I had no clue how to be just me again.

I denounced the body and the mind. Still, that doesn't mean I should refrain from feeding the beast.

In the process of finding the true 'I' you have to become formless and infinite as the Supreme One. Become one with the universe.

What you see in others you must first be able to recognize inside of yourself.

One who loves you for being yourself is better than ten thousand who love you for being someone else.

What you see in others you must first be able to recognize in yourself.

You wanted to believe that getting older, growing up, would change everything, transform you into the amazing person you were meant to be. But what if it didn't? What if you had to stay you forever?

One of the few things I still miss from my Midwest childhood was this weird, deluded but unshakable conviction that everything around me existed all and only For Me. Am I the only one who had this queer deep sense as a kid? -- that everything exterior to me existed only insofar as it affected me somehow? -- that all things were somehow, via some occult adult activity, specially arranged for my benefit?

G. I. Gurdieff, "Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson"So-and-so-and-so-must-be; do-not-do-what-must-not-be. Mullah's favorite saying. p. 598