4,826 Quotes About Self

The greatest thing about our times is that you don't need permission to express yourself the way you wish. Sometimes people tell themselves they can't do it, because they're missing this or that, but historically, specialization is a recent convention. Most of us are born natural polymaths.

The hilarious irony is that Buddhists - who deny the existence of the self - are the most self-obsessed people you can find. The idea of karma is a clear marker of self-obsession. People actually believe that the vast cosmos is infatuated about what they do - as opposed to completely indifferent - and goes to all the trouble of rearranging itself to teach them personal karmic "lessons.

When is one considered to be in the awareness of ‘one’s own Self’? It is when all the desires become mild (when desires lessens).

Spiritual awakening transforms the so-called self-awareness into the realization that the Self is awareness.

All we can really do is nothing but be aware. In fact, we are nothing but awareness.

V-Day…if you need this one day in a year to show everyone else you truly care for “your loved one” I think it’s quite stupid. I hate this commercialism. It’s all artificial, and has nothing to do with real love.

Like ‘me’, ‘you’ is merely a particular activity of the mind, which is merely a particular process of the brain.

I value my ownindependence so highly that I can fancy no degradation greater than thatof having another man perpetually directing and advising and lecturingme, or even planning too closely in any way about my actions. He mightbe the wisest of men, or the most powerful--I should equally rebel andresent his interference...

Thinking happens by itself. The thing that is thinking that it is it that is thinking is a product of thinking.