4,826 Quotes About Self

Life is Self. So it is. In the beginning was Self but Self knows no beginning. Self simply is. Self perceives time not to feel alone. Self desires companionship resulting in Self perceiving Time. Time exists for Love, to experience Companionship. All that is here is Self. That which Self calls Brahman, Abraham, Adam is Self. Self Itself Is. Self Always is. I is I. I Is. ॐ is अयम् is I AM is Self. Self is Love. The equation is "I=Love".

There's certainly no unchanging self that is carried through from one moment to the next. Its a processes; it's not a thing. You're a verb more than you're a noun (from the point of view of neuroscience).

Hide me from this battle with words / and put out the furies of my elemental body.

The demon has a name that is known among men, though it frightens few and draws many, alas! His name is Self, and he is the shadow of your own self. First he made you love him, which was evil, and now he has made you hate him, which is evil also. But if he be cast out and never more enter into your heart, but remain as a servant in your hall, then you will recover from this sickness, and be whole and sound, and will find the varlet serviceable.

There's a couple of different realizations. Perhaps the first realization is Aham Brahmasmi. Then perhaps the following is realized. Before Abraham I AM. Then perhaps the following is realized. Before Brahman ॐ. As such it is realized ॐ. But it doesn't stop here for what really matters is Love. You see. Why does Self (I) perceive itself as diversified? Diversity exists not to be alone. Diversity exists for Companionship. Diversity exist for Love. Love is Terminus Ad Quem.

Solitude is noncommunication, the absence of others, the presence of a self sufficient to itself.

Ce qui est en toi, ce qui fait ta vie, le sait déjà. Il est si bon de savoir qu’en nous réside quelqu'un qui sait tout, qui veut tout ce qui est pour notre bien et l’accomplit mieux que nous-mêmes.

I once told a little girl,that you can be what you wish.She looked at me with an atheist’s apprehension ‘Why didn’t you become what you wished then?’That question, till date, is growing like weed in my being.

The more I care for myself, the more I can care beyond myself.