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Self Quotes by Adyashanti
- Nothing appears to be something. The human experience is a senseory organ for the divine self. Through these eyes, the divine gets to see itself…
- The mind wants to land, to fixate, to hold a concept, but the only way you can be really free is by not fixating. That's…
- When someone tells you, 'I love you,' and then you feel, 'Oh, I must be worthy after all,' that's an illusion. That's not true. Or…
- We realize--often quite suddenly--that our sense of self, which has been formed and constructed out of our ideas, beliefs and images, is not really who…
- If we would only see that all limitations are self imposed and chosen out of fear, we would leap at once.
- We think there’s someplace other than here to get to—that’s what drives the whole pursuit. Only when the pursuit ceases, is it possible to recognize…
- Self-inquiry is a spiritually induced form of wintertime. It's not about looking for a right answer so much as stripping away and letting you see…
- What am I, really? The beautiful thing...is nobody can tell us what we are. Nobody can really tell us. Not in a way that's going…
- This one question-'What do I know for certain?'-is tremendously powerful. When you look deeply into this question, it actually destroys your world. It destroys your…
- The joke of it all is that you are looking from your true nature right now without knowing it. If you would stop being fascinated…
- Most human beings spend their lives battling with opposing inner forces: what they think they should do versus what they are doing; how they feel…
- All we really want in the end is to be connected once again with the Truth of our being, to realize what it is that…
- If you tell yourself a sad story, the body reacts to that. And if you tell yourself a self-aggrandizing story, the body feels puffed up,…
- When we really start to take a look at who we think we are, we become very grace prone.
- Can you imagine if you really let it in that you are not a problem to be solved in any way? Imagine you knew that…
More Self Quotes
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation. — Arthur Ashe
- Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. — Isaac Asimov
- Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self. — Francis of Assisi
- That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it… — Mary Astell
- Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity. — Nancy Astor
- It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us… — David Attenborough
- Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up. — Dean Acheson
- A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower… — Marcus Aurelius
- What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken! — Jane Austen
- We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves,… — Paul Auster