Be yourself, or whatever self you’d like to be.

The very fact that you can observe this thinking mind is proof that you are not this thinking mind.

The price we paid for the volumes of ourselves that we suffocated in the dark.

He sees her looking at him with interest, and is encouraged to go on. ‘I wouldn’t be here with you now. This wouldn’t be real – something else would. You’d have been another you, instead...

A life of joy awaits the man who sits alone quietly in a room and determines what he himself believes rather than simply adopting the values of another.

But if I am to let my life speak things I want to hear, things I would gladly tell others, I must also let it speak things I do not want to hear and would...

Lord, how excellent are Thy ways, and how devious and dark are the ways of man. Show us how to die, that we may rise again to newness of life. Rend the veil of our...

If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself. You have a duty to worship God, not because He will be imperfect and unhappy if...

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.

Begin. . . where you are, NOT where you want to be. Begin stuck in the doldrums of your false story–if that is where you are. Begin there because, in truth, there is no other...

In a sense who you are has always been a story that you told to yourself. Now your self is a story that you tell to others.

The peculiar predicament of the present-day self surely came to pass as a consequence of the disappointment of the high expectations of the self as it entered the age of science and technology. Dazzled by...

The more we have outside ourselves the harder it is to get inside ourselves.

One writes primarily to free oneself from oneself.

Polarities of the ‘authentic’ vs. the ‘inauthentic’ are easily discernible in recreational modes. The criteria of authenticity are not necessarily objective but rather have to do with the rules by which the self allows or...

It is important to realize that we so often define ourselves by what is in opposition to ourselves.

We are always changing, always different, and yet strangely and recognizably always the same.

Those dreaming of the perfect match are outnumbered by those who don’t really want it at all, though perhaps they can’t admit it. After all, our culture makes individual freedom, autonomy and fulfillment the very...

This constant mental diatribe and the frustrations, worries, insecurities and muscular tension that ensues are the self.

It’s the words we whisper to ourselves that make us who we are.

In Ephesians 5, Paul shows us that even on earth Jesus did not use his power to oppress us but sacrificed everything to bring us into union with him. And this takes us beyond the...

That nagging state of constant thought that exists somewhere between the ears and behind the eyes is the self.

Look up at the moon; don’t think about yourself.

You are the space in which these thoughts arise, but not the thoughts themselves.

First you have to survive adolescence; then your education. Finally, yourself.

Society is a collection of selves perpetuating their myth.

We are the mountains we must cross.

We tend to view ourselves as this, lying in contradiction with everything that is not ourselves, that.