Depression Quote by Siri Hustvedt

“Aggression, Violence, Exploitation, Depression, Despair, Prejudice, War, Intolerance, Poverty, Are all a result of a misunderstanding of the nature of Self.”

— Shoryu Bradley

“There is in fact a category of people who get unusually close to the truth about themselves and the world. Their self-perceptions are more…

— Cordelia Fine

“Conflict is the essence of the self.”

— J.Krishnamurti

“THE SELF IS THE ROOT of the mental poisons. Our mind fabricates, projects, and attaches concepts to people and things. Egocentric fixation reinforces the…

— Dalai Lama XIV

“You love yourself and you are happy, and what you perceive as self-loathing and misery are really outside of you.”

— Bryant McGill

“However, I must admit that keeping myself to myself has not always been comforting. At times, I seemed to suffer spells of depression and…

— Lawrence G. Taylor

“The belief in an independently existent self is a mistaken perception with serious consequences, for all afflictions are rooted in a fundamental misconception about…

— Karma Lekshe Tsomo

“That’s why I called my last book Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself, because that’s the greatest habit we have to break—thinking, feeling, and…

— Joe Dispenza

“We are highly susceptible to self destruction when we aren’t doing what we really want with our lives.”

— James Dillehay

“When people find themselves in these conditions they lose their self-consciousness and sense of time. They report that the task itself becomes the end”

— James P. Womack

The central premise of this book is that the Western psychological notion of what it means to have a self is flawed.

— Mark Epstein

“People talk about losing control of themselves all the time, whether it’s from drink, drugs, passion, or anger. But they don’t know what it’s…

— Sarah A. Denzil