The Self Quotes

The more expanded your sense of self, the more possibilities are released from the level of the soul.

Total self acceptance is empowering. It means allowing others to see you as they choose, without being offended.

We may experience a realization of our true Self the first time we meditate, but most often the process of awakening is gradual.

Positive self-esteem is the quality of simply saying thank you and accepting any value that is attributed to you by others.

Self-esteem is felt even though you may not have done anything yet, but just feel the capability for it.

The only thing socialists produce is debt and self-esteem

Always help people increase their own self-esteem. Develop your skill in making other people feel important.

[Degree in English] gave me a little more self-confidence, to know that I'd managed to complete something like that.

If I were a bad black comic I would name my special, Yo mama, and other stories of a lack of self awareness.

False humility is thinly veiled ego disguised as self confidence.

I always get nervous before a kissing scene. I make sure I always brush my teeth and eat lots of fruit and nice foods rather than garlic. I'm terribly self conscious.

I think managing pain with narcotics could be a useful skill. Hiding your true self from you co-workers, which is totally true. Exacting justice when it needs to be dealt.

However you arrive at the ability to ignore self-doubt - if you can acquire it or possess it or find it or discover it - move beyond self-doubt.

Self-doubt kills talent.

Shame can be self-indulgence too.

I have more self-confidence than I did when I was in my 20s.

I have to be self-conscious of what I'm trying to do with my life.

I don't have a lot of self-confidence. I'm getting there. Before I had zero confidence, but it's one of those things you learn and accept.

The law was given to crush our self-confidence and drive us to Jesus.

I am one powerful self made up of so many selves that sometimes I throw myself a get-acquainted party.

Humility is not about having a low self-image or poor self-esteem. Humility is about self-awareness.

There's something very self-conscious about a writer who's addressing his reader. Don't do that.

I had so many secrets and so much social repression throughout my life. I guess I'm just a shy person and feel like my true self is unacceptable to most people.

I am pretty self-indulgent.

Be so true to thyself, as thou be not false to others.

It is often our own imperfection which makes us reprove the imperfection of others; a sharp-sighted self-love of others

Attraction and aversion create a sense of self. There is no self. They are just thoughts. They are insubstantial. When you die, all the ideas of self will go away.

The whole objective universe is created, ordered, by our perception and by our sense of self.

It is only when you have become that true Self consciously, when all these illusions have fallen away, that you will be perfectly free and perfectly happy.

Selfless giving is measured by how good you feel. Self giving should be obvious.

The sense of self is one of the obscurations that prevents us from seeing clearly, the idea that there is a self or that we are anyone in particular.

Be concerned with the welfare of others without any sense of self-importance that one is better because one meditates or leads a certain type of life.

In self-giving you must be so careful of egotism. You must be so careful when you are aiding others in their liberation not to have a sense of self.

It is my experience that if a person practices self discovery with intent, they will be successful. Success is an outer sign that they are channeling energy correctly.

I don't dictate particular styles of dress. I do teach classes in self discovery.

Tantra is for the person who has self control but doesn't care anymore. It is for the person who is able to abandon self-control and its fixation.

In Zen, and in other forms of self discovery, we do have a transference that occurs where psychically, information, blocks of attention, are transferred to the student.

People want to will their self realization. They want to know what the right thing to do all the time is. There is no right thing. There's no code. There are certain basic recommendations.

Each one of you has created a sense of self. That's what the tonal does. Each one of you is taught a system of maintenance that has been developed by humankind from your birth till your death.

Everything is part of one web, one matrix of existence, beyond discussion. This is our true self in its undifferentiated form.

To love is to be balanced, to extend one's self beyond the sense of self.

We perceive the solidification as the world around us, which appears to be relatively solid. But that solidification is just really a reflection of the solidification of one's sense of self.

When you are not meditating, eliminate hate, doubt, fear, anxiety, negative thoughts and emotions that limit your consciousness, that bind you to a sense of self, of ego.

The samsara is the sense of self. I've had past experiences. I'm aware of the moment. I will have future experiences.

Women have been denied access to advanced methods of self discovery throughout the ages.

On waking from the dream, we see that birth and death, the sense of self, other - all of these things fade away.

His (the theologian) basic instinct of self preservation forbids him to respect reality at any point or even to let it get a word in.

For our self respect depends upon our ability to make requital, for good or for evil.

The world was reduced to the surface of her skin and her inner self was safe from all bitterness.

At times ... one is downright thankful for the self-absorption of other people.