Quotes about Self

We can only love others as much as we love ourselves.

The love of Christ embraces all without exception. Fire of love, crazy over what You have made. Oh, divine Madman. (Prayer of Catherine Siena) Simply do the next thing in love. I have no sense of myself apart from you. Quia amasti me, fecisti me amabilem. (In loving me, you made me lovable.)

Shame--what happened when my mother, the dragon, huffed and puffed and blew my self down.

The tendency in legalistic religion is to mistrust God, to mistrust others, and consequently, to mistrust ourselves.

We can only sense ourselves and our world valued and cherished by God when we feel valued and cherished by others '.

Preoccupation with self is always a major component of unhealthy guilt and recrimination.

Yet the spiritual life begins with the acceptance of our wounded self.

Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion.

Real freedom is freedom from the opinions of others. Above all, freedom from your opinions about yourself.

Every time you listen with great attentiveness to the voice that calls you the Beloved, you will discover within yourself a desire to hear that voice longer and more deeply. It is like discovering a well in the desert. Once you have touched wet ground, you want to dig deeper.

But once I am able to truly confess my most profound dependence on others and on God, I can come in touch with my true self and real community can develop.

When we look for divine solutions in others, we make others into gods and ourselves into demons. Our hands no longer caress but instead grasp. Our lips no longer kiss or form kind words but bite.