4,826 Quotes About Self

When many people become bonded into one self, as an endogroup, an artificial person is created as an ideal. This endogroup ideal, or endo-ideal becomes the group. Its identity is adopted by every member of the group and the individuals also become the endogroup. The group identity subsumes the self for all except the endo-ideal, creating a special subset of reality which here we will call an endoreality.

You will find out who you are when your choices test you. In the end, we are what we do and what we allow to be done.

How many of us ever make time to know who our parents really were? How many sunken layers deep are those we thought we knew simply because we loved them?

You're not tall, but you walk like you are.

When you are embodying your Essential Self, any choice you make is the right one, in all scenarios. There is no room for complaints or uncertainty.

It is selfish to want others to be selfless.

I never got to know the who was the man behind the man I thought my father was. I knew the lawyer only but had never ever seen or met or lived with the pianist. And it kills me still today to not have known and spoken to the pianist. The person I knew was his second self. I suspect we have first selves and second delves and perhaps third, fourth, and fifth selves and many more in between.

The nuisance of the intellectual sphere is the man who is so occupied in trying to educate others, that he has never had any time to educate himself

If a thousand sunshad risenin the skyall at once,such brilliancewould bethe brillianceof that great self.