Authentic self Quote by Yuval Noah Harari

“If I look really deep within myself, the seeming unity that I take for granted dissolves into a cacophony of conflicting voices, none of…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“There is an irreducible opposition between the deep transcendent self that awakens only in contemplation, and the superficial, external self which we commonly identify…

— Thomas Merton

“The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being.”

— D.H. Lawrence

“Although selfhood depends causally upon the existence of the brain, it amounts to something far more than the brain. This something is vague and…

— Neel Burton

“No one cares for reality, everyone stakes his essence on illusion. Slaves and dupes of their self-love, men live not in order to live…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Until we begin to question our basic assumptions about ourselves and view them as fluid, not fixed, it’s easy to repeat established patterns and,…

— Sharon Salzberg

“For the discovery of self we have to overcome the fear of self, so as to find the marrow ‘within’ and disclose our ‘true’…

— Erik Pevernagie

“The essence of human life is to come into one’s nature of the Self (Soul), get awakened and remain only in ‘Self’.”

— Dada Bhagwan

“The marvel of being human only reveals itself when we do something for another without personal gain, when we forgive, and when we give…

— Joan Marques

“Further   Whoever was responsible for the idea of dividing self into lower and higher parts committed a serious crime against humanity. This division…

— Jed McKenna

“These mental and physical components of self­ belief are closely interlinked. They are used to slowly interweave the per­sonal narratives that very effectively create…

— David Amerland

“...the self can be as desperately stranded in the transcendence of theory as in the immanence of consumption.”

— Walker Percy