Birth Quote by Frederick Lenz

We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.

— Donald Curtis

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…

— Adyashanti

We are things that labor under the illusion of having a self, a secretion of sensory experience and feeling, programmed with total assurance that…

— Matthew McConaughey

We were created for a purpose and when our underlying assumptions don't reflect this deeper purpose, we begin to whither as human beings.

— David Kim

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

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

— Frederick Lenz

We begin to find and become ourselves when we notice how we are already found, already truly, entirely, wildly, messily, marvelously who we were…

— Anne Lamott

From infinite awareness, something comes forward, a sense of infinite awareness and finite awareness. That perception is the birth of a being.

— Frederick Lenz

We are what we think we are - not what we appear to be on the outside.

— Paul J. Meyer

The Truth of what we are, why we are, where it began the occurrence that we will be and where it will end lies…

— Mariana Fulger

We are nothing; less than nothing, and dreams. We are only what might have been, and must wait upon the tedious shores of Lethe…

— Charles Lamb

“Perhaps we aren’t fully developed. The physical development of human beings necessarily had to precede the psychological. Perhaps the physical nature of the universe…

— Jostein Gaarder