Quotes about self
self expression people
I like people who are as unlike me as possible, which is not an expression of self disgust or self hatred, but it's just that you know you obviously particularly admire things that you recognize yourself as not having. Stephen Fry
self people who-you-are
You are who you are when nobody's watching.
self perfection saint
Perfection consists in one thing alone, which is doing the will of God. For, according to Our Lord's words, it suffices for perfection to deny self, to take up the cross and to follow Him. Now who denies himself and takes up his cross and follows Christ better than he who seeks not to do his own will, but always that of God? Behold, now, how little is needed to become as Saint? Nothing more than to acquire the habit of willing, on every occasion, what God wills. St. Vincent
self indulge-in tools
However great the work that God may achieve by an individual, he must not indulge in self-satisfaction. He ought rather to be all the more humbled, seeing himself merely as a tool which God has made use of.
self-esteem esteem
Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most. St. Jerome
self realisation seekers
Some seekers will do anything for their Self-realisation - except work for it. Sri Chinmoy
self goal transcendence
Our goal is self-transcendence
self inspire humanity
Individual self-transcendence collectively inspires humanity at large.
self giving cry
What gives life its value if not its constant cry for self-transcendence?
self speech flawless
To be free from all egoistic motive, careful of truth in speech and action, void of self-will and self-assertion, watchful in all things, is the condition for being a flawless servant. Sri Aurobindo
self mindfulness would-be
But what after all, behind appearance, is the seeming mystery? We can see that it is the Consciousness which had lost itself, returning to itself, emerging out of its giant self-forgetfulness, slowly, painfully, as a life that is would-be sentient, to be more than sentient, to be again divinely self-conscious, free, infinite, immortal.
self mind body
The supramental transformation, the supramental evolution must carry with it a lifting of mind, life and body out of themselves into a greater way of being in which yet their own ways and powers would be, not suppressed or abolished, but perfected and fulfilled by the self-exceeding.
self infinite highest
Either consciously or unconsciously we are searching for the highest Self, which is at once eternal and infinite.
self optimism secret
Optimism is the secret of self-reliance. Self-reliance is the secret of a dynamic power. A dynamic power is the secret of an immediate success.
self soul doubt
At last He is healed of his self-doubt. Now what is happening ? He is awakening To his souls ecstasy-sun.
self giving joy
The joy of a self-giving life Can neither be measured Nor be expounded.
self mind intellectual
God can be seen Even by the poorest fool, But not by the self-styled, God-arguing Intellectual giants.
self rivers joy
True inner joy is self-created It does not rely on any outer circumstances A river is flowing in and through you carrying the message of joy. This divine joy is the sole purpose of life.
self soul lovers
There comes a time in the seeker's life when he discovers that he is at once the lover and the beloved. The aspiring soul which he embodies is the lover in him. And the transcendental Self which he reveals from within is his Beloved.
self envy finding-happiness
Anger, resentment, envy, and self-pity are wasteful reactions. They greatly drain one's time. They sap energy better devoted to productive endeavors. Ruth Bader Ginsburg
self civilization people
Most people are shaped to the form of their culture because of the enormous malleability of their original endowment. They are plastic to the moulding force of the society into which they are born. It does not matter whether, with the Northwest Coast, it requires delusions of self-reference, or with our own civilization the amassing of possessions. In any case the great mass of individuals take quite readily the form that is presented to them. Ruth Benedict
self expression class
The self is the class (not the collection) of the experiences (or autopsychological states). The self does not belong to the expression of the basic experience, but is constructed only on a very high level. Rudolf Carnap
self-esteem forget forget-you
You do more for yourself when you forget yourself. Ron Kaufman
self service-culture profound
Selfless acts are a source of profound meaning for your self and your life.
self calling may
If the sad truth be known, writers, being the misfits we are, probably ought not to belong to families in the first place. We simply are too self-interested, though we may excuse the flaw by calling it 'focused.' Roger Rosenblatt
self might pay
The God worth worshipping is the one who pays us the compliment of self - regulation, and we might return it by minding our own business.
self monsters persons
Anytime you make a person into something other than himself, you make a monster.
self comforting deception
Self-deception can be more comforting than self-knowledge. We like to fool ourselves.
selfish mean compassion
We, the United States, have to be guilty. We have to be guilty. We have to be underperforming. We have to be not showing compassion or dignity or whatever code word is used to transmit the notion that we're mean-spirited, that we're selfish, and that we're probably bigoted and racist and don't want people here like that. Rush Limbaugh
self people inspire
Nobody in a leadership level in American politics is trying to inspire the American people. Everybody needs to be goosed. The vast majority of people are not self-starters.
self firsts contemplation
Contemplation is not and cannot be a function of this external self. There is an irreducible opposition between the deep transcendent self that awakens only in contemplation, and the superficial, external self which we commonly identify with the first person singular. Thomas Merton
selfish free-gifts perfection
What is 'grace'? It is God's own life, shared by us. God's life is love. Deus caritas est. By grace we are able to share in the infinitely selfless love of Him Who is such pure actuality that He needs nothing and therefore cannot conceivably exploit anything for selfish ends. Indeed, outside of Him there is nothing, and whatever exists exists by His free gift of its being, so that one of the notions that is absolutely contradictory to the perfection of God is selfishness.
self imagination long
As long as I continue to take myself seriously, how can I consider myself a saint? How can I consider myself a contemplative? For the self I bother about does not really exist, never will, never did except in my own imagination.