Quotes about Self

We are, you and I, at least one of the ways that the Universe knows itself

Reconciliation can also be with your own self. If you don't reconcile with yourself, happiness with another person is impossible.

For true love to be there, you need to feel complete in yourself, not needing something from outside.

We are imprisoned in our small selves, thinking only of the comfortable conditions for this small self, while we destroy our large self.

There is no single entity whose identity is changeless. All things are constantly changing. Nothing endures forever or contains a changeless element called a self.

To love is, first of all, to accept ourselves as we are.

Do I trust myself? Sometimes I don't even know, but I can only just kind of throw my hat in the ring and hope for the best. Depending on how much I trust the other people is how much freedom I can allow myself to have on that particular set.

It would be all right if I could pray in this way, or in that other way, if I were just able to give You the only thing You want: not my thoughts and feelings and resolutions, but myself. But that is just what I am unable to do, because in the superficiality of the ordinary routine into which my life is cast, I am a stranger to myself. And how can I seek You, being so distant, how can I give myself up to You, when I haven't been able as yet to find myself?

Self, renders it impossible to know Christ, when other loves and interests intervene, and breeds dissatisfaction with all else and makes that very self sad and weak. Christ absolute, lights the whole being with His love, and joy, and beauty, and shines on other loves to their sanctification, and so, the abnegation of self is self's highest development.

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

As you think, so shall you become.

The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.