Incapacity Quote by Anonymous

We appear to be programmed with the idea that there are 'things' outside of our self, and some are conscious, and some are not.

— Ray Kurzweil

As we gain satisfaction from artificial substitutes for nature we forget that there is no known substitute for Nature, the real thing and its…

— Michael J Cohen

If we could put material things into their proper place, and use them without being attached to them, how much freer we would be.…

— Peace Pilgrim

“Without knowing the essential nature of this (referring to the self), we are trying to make a life outside. That is the biggest mistake…

— Sadhguru

We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.

— William Hazlitt

It turns out that our notions of what a 'self' is and how it might feel fulfilled have no more objective status than most…

— Maureen O'Hara

Life is in ourselves and not in the external.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Yes,” some objectors declare, “I would like to expand my consciousness, but I feel that I must do it for myself.” To this, our…

— Marcia Moore

We aren't anything in particular. There is no self. There are only ideas and states of mind.

— Frederick Lenz

“our perceptions of the external world are habitually clouded by the verbal notions in terms of which we do our thinking. We are for…

— Aldous Huxley

...by the time we understand the pattern we are in, the definition we are making for ourselves, it's too late to break out of…

— Robert Penn Warren

There is so much baggage we burden ourselves with over the years that keeps us from seeing things the way they are. Some baggage…

— Bill Porter