Body Quote by Ramana Maharshi

It is a human defect--to try to know one's self by the self of another.

— Robert Penn Warren

It is human defect — to try to know oneself by the self of another.

— Robert Penn Warren

Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become.

— Maxwell Maltz

Knowing oneself is not so much a question of discovering what is present in one's self, but rather the creation of who one wants…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

The self is not the individual body or mind, but rather that aspect deep inside each individual person that knows the truth.

— Vishnudevananda Saraswati

Our ideas of self are created by identification. The less we cling to ideas of self, the freer and happier we will be.

— Jack Kornfield

Our sense of self is a kind of construct. It is in some ways like a novel, and it's like a fabric of fictions…

— Dan Chaon

“Self is what makes mind think, but never needs the mind. Self is what makes bodies live, but needs no existence for itself. Self…

— Gian Kumar

Knowing yourself is to be rooted in Being, instead of lost in your mind.

— Eckhart Tolle

“What is it that we need to overcome in order to truly be “Ourselves”?”

— Stephen Adly Guirgis

We become forgetful of the ego when we think of the body as dedicated to the service of others - the body with which…

— Swami Vivekananda

Learning to cultivate an awareness of the known and unknown within one's being often leads to a healthier and more realistic sense of self.

— Aberjhani