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Self Quotes by Eckhart Tolle
- When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself. When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world. Your…
- When you are present, you can allow the mind to be as it is without getting entangled in it. The mind itself is a wonderful…
- You create a good future by creating a good present. How do you do that? By recognizing the goodness that is already inherent in the…
- When your sense of self is no longer tied to thought, is no longer conceptual, there is a depth of feeling, of sensing, of compassion,…
- Being is not only beyond but also deep within every form as its innermost invisible and indestructible essence. This means that it is accessible to…
- So the single most vital step on your journey toward enlightenment is this: learn to disidentify from your mind. Every time you create a gap…
- If I cannot live with myself, there must be two of me: the 'I' and the 'self' that 'I' cannot live with. Maybe, I thought,…
- If I accept the fact that my relationships are here to make me conscious, instead of happy, then my relationships become a wonderful self mastery…
- Forgiveness happens naturally when you see that it has no purpose other than to strengthen a false sense of self, to keep the ego in…
- There have been many people for whom limitations, failure, loss, or pain in whatever form turned out to be their greatest teacher. It taught them…
- If a fish is born in your aquarium and you call him John, write out a birth certificate, tell him about his family history, and…
- Being is accessible to you now as your own deepest self, your true nature. But don't seek to grasp it with your mind. Don't try…
- When each thought absorbs your attention completely, it means you identify with the voice in your head. Thought then becomes invested with a sense of…
- Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.
- Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.
- The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life.
- If you identify with a mental position, then if you are wrong, your mind-based sense of self is seriously threatened with annihilation. So you as…
- A genuine relationship is one that is not dominated by the ego with its image-making and self-seeking. In a genuine relationship, there is an outward…
- In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same.
- I don't want it to end, and so, as every therapist knows, the ego does not want an end to its “problems” because they are…
- Fulfill me, make me happy, make me feel safe, tell me who I am. The world cannot give you those things, and when you no…
- In essence, you are neither inferior nor superior to anyone. True self-esteem and true humility arise out of that realization. In the eyes of the…
- Fear arises through identification with form, whether it be a material possession, a physical body, a social role, a self-image, a thought, or an emotion.…
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