4,826 Quotes About Self

[T]he Enneagram is, at its most abstract, a universal mandala of the self—a symbol of each of us.

Most of the tools from medieval times were extensions of the physical self. Tools are now extensions of the mental self.

The self is constituted within a variety of arenas and in relation to multiple traditions. Self-hood, on this understanding, is both provisional and open-ended, and critically depends on the configuration of relationships between one’s own groups and those cultures and values that are deemed ‘other’. The regulation of alterity becomes a defining attribute of self-hood, as my sense of who I am is crucially mediated by an understanding of that which I am not (paraphrasing William Connolly).

We would do well to ask how people describe themselves.

By creating a healthy relationship between our own self, and balancing our Yin and Yang energies, we’ll find harmony and fulfillment within.

Remember who you are at the deepest level of your Soul, as you embrace the Light and Love of God within you.

Attachments to the self-and/or others, give birth to Karma.

Know yourself and you will know God. Are you a body, a mind, a soul or something else or nothing? Can you be anything you want to be or you are already everything you want to be?

We should have been excused from lugging a body: the burden of the self is enough.