Quotes about self
self ego perception
The Self alone exists. When you try to trace the ego, which is the basis of the perception of the world and everything else, you find the ego does not exist at all and neither does all this creation that you see. Ramana Maharshi
self imagination world
For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.
self social-reform reform
Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.
self hands annihilation
The search "Who am I"...ends in the annihilation of the illusory "I" and the Self which remains over will be as clear as a gooseberry in the palm of one's hand.
self mind body
Our identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are.
self self-realization knows
To know one's Self is to be blissful always.
self shining conviction
Remain still, with the conviction that the Self shines as everything yet nothing, within, without, and everywhere.
self mind normal
The normal self is the mind. The mind is with limitations. But pure Consciousness is beyond limitations, and is reached by investigation into the "I."
self inquiry burning
By the inquiry 'Who am I?'. The thought 'who am I?' will destroy all other thoughts, and like the stick used for stirring the burning pyre, it will itself in the end get destroyed. Then, there will arise Self-realization.
self aging immortal
Discover your undying Self and be immortal and happy.
self realization quiet
The 'I' casts off the illusion of the 'I' and yet remains 'I'. Such is the paradox of Self-realization. The Realized do not see any paradox in it. Consider the case of the worshipper. He approaches God and prays to be absorbed in Him. He then surrenders himself in faith and by concentration. And what remains afterwards? In the place of the original 'I', self-surrender leaves a residuum of God in which the 'I' is lost. That is the highest form of devotion or surrender and the peak of detachment.
self names worship
Under whatever name or form we worship It, It leads us on to knowledge of the nameless, formless Absolute. Yet, to see one's true Self in the Absolute, to subside into It and be one with "It, this is the true Knowledge of the Truth.
self ego firsts
If there is anything besides the Self there is reason to fear? Who sees the second? First, the ego arises and sees objects as external. If the ego does not rise, the Self alone exists and there is no second.
self stills realising
All that is required to realise the Self is to “Be Still.
self silence bliss
Silence is truth. Silence is bliss. Silence is peace. And hence Silence is the Self.
self rock-and-roll rocks
In every decade rock and roll starts to get very serious and navel gazing and kind of self serious and every once and a while it kind of needs a kick in the pants. Rainn Wilson
selfish knows
She didn't know there were things worse than selfish. Rainbow Rowell
selfish moon dreamer
Go, then! Go to the moon-you selfish dreamer! Tennessee Williams
self order dimensions
We are alienated, so alienated that the self must disguise itself as an extraterrestrial in order not to alarm us with the truly bizarre dimensions that it encompasses. Terence McKenna
self levels ascent
This is the nature of going forward into being: A series of self-transforming ascents of level.
self process reflecting
The Gaian process is more than a process. It is s self-reflecting entelechy of some sort.
self mind desert
The Gaian mind is what were calling the psychedelic experience. Its an experience of the living fact of the entelechy of the planet - and without that experience we wander in a desert of bogus ideologies. But with that experience the compass of the self can be set.
self disease alcoholism
Alcoholism isn't a disease. It's a failure of self-image.
self knows
How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?
self drug may
The drug may not be toxic, but you may be self-toxic, and you may discover this in the drug experience.
self space mind
Psychedelics are not flashlights into the chaos of the Freudian unconscious, they are tools for mathematically unpacking your mind into a higher dimensional space. In the Newtonian and print created space that we are walking around in you, are like a self extracting archive, that hasn't self extracted itself yet.
self talking sea
For talking monkeys to speak of truth is hubris of the highest degree. Where is it writ large that talking monkeys should be able to model the cosmos? If a sea urchin or a racoon were to propose to you that it had a viable truth about the universe, the absurdity of that assertion would be self-evident, but in our case we make an exception.
self despair psychedelic
Inevitably out of the psychedelic experience emerges not despair, not self-indulgence, but wild-eyed idealism, that's the inevitable product of any psychedelically driven social process.
self civilization ego
If the ego is not regularly and repeatedly dissolved in the unbounded hyperspace of the Transcendent Other, there will always be slow drift away from the sense of self as part of nature’s larger whole. The ultimate consequence of this drift is the fatal ennui that now permeates Western Civilization.
self two mystery
The word 'self' is as great a mystery as the word 'other'. It's just a polarity between two mysteries.
self racist blind
I was really worn down by an American society that is racist, smugly blind to it, and hugely self-satisfied. Randall Robinson
selfish hero giving
I had to give him props, but how annoying of him to be a hero when I was trying so hard to dislike him. It was downright selfish. James Patterson
self promise want
Now that we were alone,i was self-conscious and cranky again.Why had i wanted to stay?if i had been programmed to want to be with dylan,heads were gonna roll,i promise you that.