Quotes about Inner self
God has shaped and crafted us internally—with a unique personality, thoughts, dreams, temperament, feelings, talents, gifts, and desires. He has planted "true seeds of self" inside of us. They make up the authentic "us." We are also deeply loved. We are a treasure.
— Peter Scazzero
On a trip to Russia I bought one of those Matryoshka "nested dolls" that break apart at the waist to reveal smaller and smaller dolls inside…it occurred to me to me later that each of us, like the nested dolls, contains multiple selves, making us a mysterious combination of good and evil, wisdom and folly, reason and instinct… (pp.80)
— Philip Yancey
A lot of the shadow self is the home of poetry, story, prayer. My deepest understandings are often released from the part of me of which I am least aware most of the time.
— Madeleine L'Engle
When your higher self is present, it always promotes peace.
— Wayne Dyer
When the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface
— Mark Twain
We have the choice of two identities: the external mask which seems to be real … and the hidden, inner person who seems to us to be nothing, but who can give himself eternally to the truth in whom he subsists.
— Thomas Merton
You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in his spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance. I
— Viktor E. Frankl
At the individual level, the great controlling myth of our time has been the belief that within each of us there is a real, inner, private 'self', long buried beneath layers of socialization and attempted cultural and religious control, and needing to be rediscovered if we are to live authentic lives. When we 'discover' this 'true authentic self' , we must do whatever it dictates, even if it means ignoring the norms of the 'unenlightened' society all around us.
— NT Wright
know that I'm not a human being having a spiritual experience. I'm a spiritual being having a human experience.
— Jon Gordon
One can do many external deeds of love and still hold back the really precious gift, the inner self. This gift can be given only through communication.
— Gary Thomas
Your true heart is best revealed in secret. In other words, the secret you is the real you.
— Stephen Kendrick