Separate Self Quotes
17 quotes by 16 authors
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Bad Gardens copy, good gardens create, great gardens transcend. What all great gardens have in common are their ability to pull the sensitive viewer out…
— Ken Wilber
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It is the cry of the separate self, ‘What about me?’ As long as we keep acting from that place, it doesn’t matter who wins…
— Charles Eisenstein
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This little separate self must die. Then we shall find that we are in the Real, and that Real is God, and He is our…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Fear forces us to spend our lives dealing with it, ostensibly to overcome it. But that is a trick. Only fear (the illusion of separation)…
— Cheri Huber
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First of all there will appear to you, swifter than lightning, the luminous splendor of the colorless light of Emptiness, and that will surround you…
— Gautama Buddha
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The roots of all living things are tied together. Deep in the ground of being, they tangle and embrace. This understanding is expressed in the…
— Joan Halifax
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The need to become a separate self is as urgent as the yearning to merge forever. And as long as we, not our mother, initiate…
— Judith Viorst
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Your constant utilization of thought to give continuity to your separate self is you. There is nothing there inside you other than that.
— U.G. Krishnamurti
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Love is a time-honored way to transcend the separate-self sense and leap into the sublime; Treya and I held hands, closed our eyes, and jumped.
— Ken Wilber
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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…
— Adyashanti
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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…
— Eckhart Tolle
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The ego is the separate self through which the universal self can experience the adventure of living.
— Timothy Freke
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The highest level of prayer is not a prayer for anything. It is a deep and profound silence, in which we allow ourselves to be…
— Marianne Williamson
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A man is never more his single separate self than when he sets out on a journey.
— John Dos Passos
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The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling…
— Nhat Hanh
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There is no holy life. There is no war between good and evil. There is no sin and no redemption. None of these things matter…
— Deepak Chopra
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I would say both Western psychology and Eastern paths would recognize that we get caught up in feeling like a separate self and an unworthy…
— Tara Brach
Who Wrote These Separate Self Quotes
16 authors contributed a total of 17 Separate Self Quotes as follows: