The Self Quotes

Buddhism suggests there are no elect. Everything rests upon your own self-effort, which is the good news because that means you don't have to wait around for some nebulous God to help you.

Self discovery doesn't not seek to bring you answers about your personal life or philosophically comfort you about life and death. What it does is bring you into reality as perception itself.

Purity is innocence, the innocence of lack of self. Desire is innocent unless it's connected with self.

The souls now incarnating are power souls. It is a dark age. To incarnate now one needs psychic self-defense.

Wisdom is to see the difference between nirvana and this world, this self-reflection that the mind creates.

There is a wonderful continuity of being, the continuous awareness of self, a sense of yourself continuing in time and space.

Honestly admitting what you lost and not trying to rationalize it or push it off is an important step in self-assessment and mindfulness.

Learning how to be agreeable is the key to learning self-control.

Learn that happiness comes through self-control and not being angry or jealous. The only one that you really torment is yourself. It is easier to let go and gain new ways of looking at life.

Step into the mystery of the mind. There are billions of minds, there are billions of selves. There are billions of worlds and dimensions.

For an advanced preceiver, the play of life is to assemble and reassemble the self in alternate realities of which this is one.

We connect the dots in the drawing with our mind. We give them a meaning, a figurative sense, which is self-reflexive in that it creates us, because we are the experiencer of the moment.

You are an endless conglomeration of awareness. You're not one singular self. You're a corporation.

Self is the perception of perception. Beyond self there's no perception of perception.

There is the experience of enlightenment, to be very aware of what lies beyond the boundaries of cognitive perception, reflection and self-awareness as seen by the personality.

Life is invisible. The illusion is that what we perceive is in some way not a reflection of self. Life reflects the field of attention that we're in.

In our world, in our pre-World War III condition, meditation is considered a cult activity and people who practice self-discovery are actually persecuted and ridiculed.

Love is the only rule in self-discovery. If you've forgotten that rule, you've forgotten everything. It's not what you can get; it's what you can give.

It is is easy to smile. It is an act of self-giving. When you smile you are at your best and you give that best to others.

There's a different film being made in every mind. And of course, the star of the film is the mind, the personality, the self.

You've got to make a person aware of how miserable they really are and show them how happy they can be. Otherwise, why should they seek this nebulous goal called self-discovery.

You are not a singular self. You are a corporation. Inside you is eternity. A human being is not so simple.

You have thousands of selves inside you. Meditation is a process of peeling back the layers of the self. We start with peeling back the personality from this lifetime.

Self-acceptance is involved in this process. You have got to be able to look at both your dark and your light side and not get enamored or depressed by either.

Self-knowledge, I guess, is hard. But I think pain is harder, personally. I think to be hopeless is very hard. I think to die without hope or to live without hope is very hard.

You don't have to meditate. You don't have to practice self-discovery and Buddhism. You should only practice self-discovery if you really have had it with the human world.

What you need to learn are basic types of concentration, bringing more energy into your life, plugging up the holes where you lose energy, the basics of self-discovery.

These truths may seem simple and self-apparent and the words easy to say, but the states of mind that you live in as you progress are beautiful beyond description.

It's not logical, self-realization. If it was, everybody would be self-realized because everybody is logical.

If you are trying to aid people in the process of self-discovery, what you have to do is confound them with so many concepts that are contradictory, yet each make complete sense in its own right.

Meditation is a process of liquefying the self temporarily and then allowing the self to rebind. The ice melts and then it comes back again.

If we are in the same state of mind, we just self-reflect, things are dull and gray and kind of boring.

Meditation is the freeing of ourselves from all mental states and concepts of self.

In meditation we get a sense of the countless selves within ourselves, the different forms they take. Those that don't seem positive or helpful we push aside. Those that seem progressive we enjoy.

When you are subjected to this light, depending on how strong the dose is, you will have two or three days in which you can make tremendous changes within your self, in the structure of your being.

The self plays among the waves of existence. It surfaces, it comes up for a while, and then it disappears again.

Self-realization is not the awareness that this world is a dream, that's a part of self-realization.

The perceiver of the dream, the one whom the dream is unfolding before, is what we call the Self.

A war is an incarnation. A battle is a day of your life. So we do one day at a time in self-discovery.

We are immortal life. Think of the opportunity of self-realization. What a gas!

Beyond the parameters of the self is an ocean ... and it's most excellent.

Self-realization: No ego, no desires, no weight problems, no tax forms, no death to die, no life to live.

Self-realization is a strange term. You don't actually realize your 'self'. If anything, you go away. The caterpillar enters the cocoon of meditation: A butterfly emerges - metamorphosis.

When all of the selves have been dissolved, you will enter into the super-conscious awareness. Then, you are free. Then, there is no suffering. Then, there is no attachment.

This is the process of mental analysis, sifting through the selves, sifting through your thoughts, practicing mindfulness, learning to control thought.

Life is just masturbation in a sense, mentally. What people do is they just create a world out of their self-reflection.

The idea of self is dependent upon attraction, aversion and memory. Memory is simply a serial account of attractions and aversions that don't exist now except in imagination.

To go beyond karma you have to end the structure of self.

When you die you pass into inner worlds and continue to perceive. Death is not the dissolution of the self. Death is rather just a change in perception.

Nothing you can do can prevent your death. Nothing you can do can prevent your rebirth. To step beyond life and death is self-discovery.