Quotes about Self

Your image of God creates you. Your image of God creates you. Your image of God creates you.

It is the egoic illusion of our own perfect rightness that often allows us to crucify others.

The self that begins the journey is not the self that arrives at the Gospel. The self that begins is the self that we think ourselves to be, the superior self we want to be. This is the self that dies along the way— until 'no one' is left. This is the true self that all Great Religion talks about, the self bigger than death yet born of death, a different self than the private I, a self transformed by God and transformed in God.

St. John of the Cross taught that God has to work in the soul in secret and in darkness, because if we fully knew what was happening, and what Mystery/transformation/God/grace will eventually ask of us, we would either try to take charge or stop the whole process.8 No one oversees his or her own demise willingly, even when it is the false self that is dying.

Your True Self is who you objectively are from the beginning, in the mind and heart of God

The True Self always has something good to say. The False Self babbles on, largely about itself.

You are who you are in the eyes of God, nothing more and nothing less," he often said.12

There is nothing wrong with or bad about your False Self; it's simply "the identity you created for yourself

Self-worth is not created; it is discovered.

The shadow is the place we put all the suppressed and repressed parts of our lives. + Eventually, in every life, the suppressed and repressed parts of our selves will revolt. + The challenge is to acknowledge and honor the shadow but not be tyrannized by it.

To preach the Reign of God, dear brothers and sisters, we have to break with our dependency on a perfectible self.

Whatever you trust to validate you and secure you is your real god, and the Gospel is saying, "Will the real God please stand up?