4,826 Quotes About Self

The ego breaks free of the soul, its matrix, in order to reflect soul, to make its potential actual, and eventually to be reunited with the realized soul to form the totality of the self.

The more we realize our selves, the less they seem to be our selves, as if the world-soul merely wishes to reflect itself through our eyes. The less self-important we are, the more important we are as selves, with a unique perspective on the cosmos.

Our presence in this reality makes sense in the redefinition of reality itself.

The wet sand on the shoreFeels good to walk on.The waves lick my feet;Beg me to returnBut I have to wade in--To have a row with The Sea.......A lot to explore

She had consented to be the Dona her world had demanded - a superficial, lovely creature, who walked, and talked, and laughed, accepting praise and admiration with a shrug of the shoulder as natural homage to her beauty, careless, insolent, deliberately indifferent, and all the while another Dona, a strange, phantom Dona, peered at her from a dark mirror and was ashamed.

[T]he purpose of your ethnicity transcends this tiny political moment.

I was born upon thy bank, river,My blood flows in thy stream,And thou meanderest foreverAt the bottom of my dream.

Selfish. Growing into yourself is nothing but that.

Crumbling is not an instant's ActA fundamental pauseDilapidation's processesAre organized Decays.'Tis first a Cobweb on the SoulA Cuticle of DustA Borer in the AxisAn Elemental Rust—Ruin is formal—Devil's workConsecutive and slow—Fail in an instant, no man didSlipping—is Crash's law.