Jesus Christ knew he was God. So wake up and find out eventually who you really are. In our culture, of course, they’ll say you’re crazy and you’re blasphemous, and they’ll either put you in...

I don’t think there’s any question, … that we need Jermaine to be his old self.

Siddhartha has one single goal-to become empty, to become empty of thirst, desire, dreams, pleasure and sorrow-to let the Self die. No longer to be Self, to experience the peace of an emptied heart, to...

Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it toward others. And the more peace there is in us, the more...

I am the cause of all my upsets. I am my worst enemy.

Neither imagine that you are false, nor lash yourself, for both may be forms of self-indulgence.

Self-control is a divided battle in one body. The “self” produces desires that “you” must battle with and kick off. Two wrestlers in one body. Just imagine. It’s difficult, though rewarding!

In most books, the I, or first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is the main difference. We commonly do not remember that it is, after all,...

Comparison is an act of violence against the self.

A real friend is one who helps us to think our best thoughts, do our noblest deeds, and be our finest selves.

I lock my door upon myself, And bar them out; but who shall wall Self from myself, most loathed of all?

We don’t want to end up with a situation where we both have a very stringent self-regulatory regime, [but then] we have to answer to their data privacy regime as well. The devil is in...

Often when she liked a picture she found that she was liking some part of herself, some part of her that was in accord with the picture

Time stretches and calms, but still we reach, for we belonged then. We want to know. Sometimes that knowledge is painful, or inconvenient, or even damning. But it is essential. It exposes us for what...

The biographer who writes the life of his subject’s self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life.

See the Divinity in others and you will find it within yourself.

Suppose you turn your attention inward in search of this ‘I’. You may encounter nothing more than an ever changing stream of consciousness, a flow of thoughts and feelings in which there is no real...

Often, we tend to wrap ourselves around him so tight that we neglect our mission, our purpose, our calling, sometimes our children and even our God

The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.

Maybe anosognosia, the inability to see your own disability, is the human condition and I’m the only one who doesn’t suffer from it.

…we each harbor a shadow self with shadowy motives and murky desires…

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.

How many people came and stayed a certain time,Uttered light or dark speech that became part of youLike light behind windblown fog and sandFiltered and influenced by it, until no partRemains that is surely you.

Sometimes we know who we want to be and what we want to do long… long before we know how to get there.

We must all allow ourselves the fantasy of projection from time to time, a chance to clothe ourselves in the imaginary gowns and tails of what has never been and never will be. This gives...

I feel sorry for people who maintain relationships and friendships detrimental to their mental health. Everyone is guilty of it at one time or another- but the idea is to strive to be your best;...

Then I thought, “No, I broke it myself. I broke it on purpose to pay myself back for being such a heel.

Rumors run wild when one sacrifices for self and temporarily forsakes those who assume entitlement to one’s persona.

The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.

Leave if you must. But leave when you are strong, not weak. Leaving should be a choice and not the only option.

Teach a person to think and they’ll devise a way to eat for a lifetime

There is a realm in which miracles are possible and do take place. The door to this realm is the belief in all possibilities and YOU are the key.

You cannot be fair to others without first being fair to yourself.Know that a well-honed sense of justice is a measure of personal experience, and all experience is a measure of self.Know that the highest...

My ‘Inner World’ can only tap the GOODNESS in the World outside ! From within I see ‘beauty’, from within I see ‘ugliness’, from within I see ‘divinity’, from within I ‘enjoy’,from within I feel...

Appreciate the people & good fortune within everyday life, this, is the quality of life, experienced.

Some of us, for better or worse, develop very stable, consistent, and largely predictable machineries of self. But in others, the self machinery is more flexible and more open to unexpected turns.

I paid, got up, walkedto the door, openedit.I heard the mansay, “that guy’snuts.”out on the street Iwalked northfeelingcuriouslyhonored.

Listen to your inner self, it knows you best.

You do not have an inferior function, it has you.

It was all right to be who he was, but others would probably think it was terrible. A couple of times in the past he’d reached this absolute zero of the truth, and without fear...

Mas cada homem não é apenas ele mesmo; é também um ponto único, singularíssimo, sempre importante e peculiar, no qual os fenômenos do mundo se cruzam daquela forma uma só vez e nunca mais. Assim,...

I’m not the same. How could I be the same?

Are we friends? or are we foes? … That kind of thing… You decide… For yourselves!!!

You may discover your purpose, but if you take it for granted, you will abuse yourself.

The defeat of the mind is the defeat of self

I am in a spot where I can neither be what I always am nor turn into what I could be.

I keep everything hidden because there’s nothing about my true self that anyone likes. I’m not difficult, Sebastian. I’m the easiest person around. I don’t belong, and I spend all my time pretending I do....

Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you’re friends is easy. Being friends is not.

G. I. Gurdieff, “Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson”So-and-so-and-so-must-be; do-not-do-what-must-not-be. Mullah’s favorite saying. p. 598

It’s not about outward appearances but inward significance. A grandeur in the world, but not of the world, a grandeur that the world doesn’t understand. That first glimpse of pure otherness, in whose presence you...