Expanding Quote by B.K.S. Iyengar

I would like to travel light on this journey of life, to get rid of the encumbrances I acquire each day. . . .…

— Madeleine L'Engle

See that you are not what you believe yourself to be. Fight with all the strength at your disposal against the idea that you…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

I wonder whats wrong with me. Sometimes I just keep wanting to go deeper and deeper into the world of self destruction. Like as…

— Daul Kim

“Read widely of others experiences in thought and action- stretch to others even though it hurts to and strains and would be more comfortable…

— Sylvia Plath

Whenever you wonder about yourself, look up at the stars swirling around in the heavens and just realize how tiny and puny they are.…

— Alan Alda

“A powerful spiritual practice is consciously to allow the diminishment of ego when it happens without attempting to restore it. I recommend that you…

— Eckhart Tolle

You have no fixed self. This is only an illusion that causes you to feel pain and suffering.

— Frederick Lenz

Sometimes it is painful to be oneself; at other times it seems impossible to escape oneself.

— James Franco

Think of all the years passed by in which you said to yourself "I'll do it tomorrow," and how the gods have again and…

— Marcus Aurelius

Selfness is an essential fact of life. The thought of nonselfness, precise sameness is terrifying.

— Lewis Thomas

I've been putting myself in bad scenarios, and all I can think about is growth, growth inside myself, outside myself, my body, my mind.

— Yair Rodriguez

It's unnecessary and destructive to think of oneself at all. People ask me, 'What do you think of yourself as?' My answer is, 'Nothing.

— Paul Bowles