Duplicate Quote by Oliver Goldsmith

This is the greatest stumbling block in our spiritual discipline, which, in actuality, consists not in getting rid of the self but in realizing…

— Thomas Merton

“spiritual formation is a matter of reworking all aspects of the self.”

— Dallas Willard

“The self who is undone in the encounter with the abyss, that is, the preabyssal self, lives with a misguided consciousness. Without having faced…

— An Yountae

Authentic spirituality... does not render the self content, it renders it undone.

— Ken Wilber

Spirituality is committing suicide. Consciousness is attempting to will itself out of existence.

— Jaron Lanier

“Spirituality is the realization of the essence of one's own being, who we really are.”

— Shiva Negi

“Dasein *is authentically itself* in the primordial individualization of the reticent resoluteness which exacts anxiety of itself. *As something that keeps *silent*, authentic *Being*-one’s-Self…

— Martin Heidegger

“Everyone of us is shadowed by an illusory person: a false self..We are not very good at recognizing illusions, least of all the ones…

— Thomas Merton

Spirituality lies in regarding existence merely as a vehicle for contemplation, and contemplation merely a vehicle for joy.

— George Santayana

“Spirituality is the realization of the essence of one's own being, who you really are.”

— Shiva Negi

“I find spirituality transcends the illusion of separation, dissolving the threshold of boundaries that divide us all”

— Leo Lourdes

“One of the basic tenets of all metaphysical systems of thought is that we create our own reality in accord with our beliefs.”

— Mary Greer