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What is more important for us, at an elemental level, than the control, the owning and operation, of our own physical selves? And yet it is so automatic, so familiar, we never give it a thought.
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The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.
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The self was a very strange concept to me until I came to America, and my child was born with that entitlement, and that just thrilled me.
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Loving the self involves faith and trust and belief in who you are, and a willingness to take action upon it.
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The self holds both a hell and a heaven.
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The self has no boundaries except those it accepts out of ignorance
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The Self is self-luminous without darkness and light, and is the reality which is self-manifest. Therefore, one should not think of it as this or as that. The very thought of thinking will end in bondage.
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The self is a thought that tells itself that thought is a self.
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Know your own Self. Honor your own Self. Find and be who you really are, at the deepest level of your own being. Be present in your own presence. Give yourself the gift of your own Self.
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The self ... can split off from itself without being less. You are not a mini self, an adjunct to some super-being, never to share fully in its reality ... you are that superself looking out through only one eye, or using just one finger.
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The Self is the one Reality that always exists, and it is by the light of the Self that all other things are seen.
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That which the entire world regards as 'mine', it is [really] 'not mine'; this Knowledge itself is the Self, the Soul.
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It is not so much that we have a self, it's that we do self-ing.
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Now, here is the point about the self: it is insatiable. It is always, always hankering. It is what you might call rapacious to a fault. The great flaming mouth to the thing is never in this world going to be stuff full.
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The possession of anything begins in the mind.
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All which is regarded as 'my', belongs to the non-Self. 'I' is the Self and 'my' is of the non-Self; it is pudgal, the body-complex. There is nothing wrong with saying 'this is mine' in the worldly interactions, but the 'I', 'who am I?', must be decided from within.
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As long as the egoism is alive, 'my-ness' remains within the self.
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Nothing is to be clung to as I, me or mine
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Sometimes, we do not believe in ourselves until someone else reveals that, deep inside of us, something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, love, or any other experience that reveals our human spirit.
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No one has ever seen the self. It has no visible shape, nor does it occupy measurable space. It is an abstraction, like other abstractions equally elusive: the individual, the mind, the society
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A self is a frightening thing to waste, it's the lens through which one's whole life is viewed, and few people are willing to part with it, in death, or even imaginatively, in art.
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One of the terrifying things about my life is that it belongs to me. It has never been lived before, nor will it ever be again. Every second is a brand-new possession.
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The ideas that we have about self are an aggregate within a state of mind, and they chain us to a state of mind.
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The self is the class (not the collection) of the experiences (or autopsychological states). The self does not belong to the expression of the basic experience, but is constructed only on a very high level.
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The self is not the individual body or mind, but rather that aspect deep inside each individual person that knows the truth.
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The hunger to belong is not merely a desire to be attached to something. It is rather sensing that great transformation and discovery become possible when belonging is sheltered and true.
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Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.
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All the harm, fear, and suffering in the world are caused by attachment to the self: Why should I hold on to this great demon?
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Identity and self-belief: a courage that swells from within, borne of waters drunk deeply.
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The self cannot be self without other selves.
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My goal in this chapter and the next is to convince you that the conventional sense of self is an illusion - and that spirituality largely consists in realizing this, moment to moment.
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Self is the soul minus God.
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The self is ... a creation, the principal work of your life, the crafting of which makes everyone an artist. This unfinished work of becoming ends only when you do, if then, and the consequences live on.
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The frightened individual seeks for somebody or something to tie his self
to; he cannot bear to be his own individual self any longer,
and he tries frantically to get rid of it and to feel security again by the elimination of this burden:
the self.
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The self is just our operation center, our consciousness, our moral compass. So, if we want to act more effectively in the world, we have to get to know ourselves better.
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I have come to understand that the self, my self, is inherently sacred. By virtue of its own improbability, its own miracle, its own emergence ... And so I lift up my head, and I bear my own witness, with affection and tenderness and respect. And in so doing, I sanctify myself with my own grace.
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It is my growing conviction that my life belongs to others just as much as it belongs to myself and that what is experienced as most unique often proves to be most solidly embedded in the common condition of being human.
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Possession means to sit astride the world Instead of having it astride of you.
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The self ... is not an organic thing that has a specific location, whose fundamental fate is to be born, to mature, to die; it is a dramatic effect arising diffusely from a scene that is presented.
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There is no essential self that lies pure as a vein of gold under the chaos of experience and chemistry. Anything can be changed, and we must understand the human organism as a sequence of selves that succumb to or choose one another.
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Self is a sea boundless and measureless.
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The possession targets a vulnerability in each of its victims and amplifies it. Essentially, it removes the self-control and notions of good that keep us from acting out on our darkest impulses.
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But how describe the world seen without a self?
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If there is anything about your 'self' of which you can be sure, it is that it is anchored in your own body and yours alone. The person you experience as 'you' is here and now and nowhere else.
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The moment you have a self at all, there is a possibility of putting yourself first - wanting
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The central idea of this book is that the self is a process, not a thing or an entity. The self isn't something outside experience, hidden either in the brain or in some immaterial realm.
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Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.
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Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives
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This ego - the less there is of it, the nearer I am to that which I really am: the universal body.
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I think I possess because I do not try to give,
Trying to give, I see that I have nothing.
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You hold precious what you create for yourself in your life that makes you comfortable.
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A solid sense of self will help a person to lead a full and happy life.
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Going beyond our ordinary concept of self is what always brings us the greatest sense of joy in life. Going beyond our own boundaries brings us an ecstatic awareness of how we are truly created in connection with all that is.
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No self is of itself alone
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I want to feel that I own things,
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The Self is the one thing you can discover, not by travelling miles, but by being very still inside your own being and saying to the Supreme,
Yes, absorb me.
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Inside the Great Mystery that is, we don't really own anything. What is this competition we feel then, before we go, one at a time, through the same gate?
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The place where even the slightest trace of the 'I' does not exist, alone is Self.
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Where there's self importance, there's only a very little bit of you and that little bit is distorted. It's in a holding pattern that is false to what it knows. That holding pattern forbids you, in that little bit of you, from being the rest of you.
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I consider my selfbeing ... that taste of myself, of I and me above and in all things, which is more distinctive than the taste of ale or alum, more distinctive than the smell of walnutleaf or camphor, and is incommunicable by any means to another man.
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A crucial element of the real self is its unconditional acceptance of itself.
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This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.
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The self persists like a dying star, In sleep, afraid.
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The only object we truly possess is our own mind. The only pleasure over which we have complete dominion is the progress of our own understanding.
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Nothing is greater than or lesser than the self.
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To a greater or lesser degree, the project of the self becomes translated into one of the possession of desired goods and the pursuit of artificially framed styles of life. ( ... ) Not just lifestyles, but self-actualisation is packaged and distributed according to market criteria.
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The sense of self is one of the obscurations that prevents us from seeing clearly, the idea that there is a self or that we are anyone in particular.
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Me, me, me! Mine, mine, mine! I'm right, I'm right, I'm right. What's in it for me? How do I use this? How do I take advantage of it? This is the way of the ego. Own this within yourself and you will begin to release yourself from it.
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The self-life manifests itself in self-indulgences, such as self-love, self-will, self-seeking, self-pride ... It takes self-denial to turn off the television and spend [time] in prayer ... and read the Scriptures ... the only object in life is that Christ may be honored.
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Owning things is an obsession in our culture. If we own it, we feel we can control it; and if we control it, we feel it will give us more pleasure. The idea is an illusion.
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I belong deeply to myself.
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The essence of self-fulfillment and autonomous culture is an unshakable egotism.
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When our identity comes from the self, then we keep our energy to ourselves. We feel energetic, we feel powerful, and we experience youthful vigor.
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unconscious self-love
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We yearn for an unquestioned experience of belonging, to feel at home with ourselves and others, at ease and fully accepted. But the trance of unworthiness keeps the sweetness of belonging out of reach.
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It turns out that our notions of what a 'self' is and how it might feel fulfilled have no more objective status than most of the rest of reality. It seems we make ourselves up as we go along.
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Each moment that passes changes you ... You can't even own yourself. How can you ever hope to own anyone or anything else.
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Self-love is always the mainspring, more or less concealed, of our actions; it is the wind which swells the sails, without which the ship could not go.
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The self in the twentieth century is a voracious nought which expands like the feeding vacuole of an amoeba seeking to nourish and inform its own nothingness by ingesting new objects in the world but, like a vacuole, only succeeds in emptying them out.
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Self-love is the source of all our other loves.
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You cannot dwell in your being while your self inhabits your heart.
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The greatest thing to conquer is self.
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A well-developed sense of self is a necessary if not sufficient condition of your well-being. Its presence does not guarantee fulfillment, but its absence guarantees some measure of anxiety, frustration, or despair.
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When I tune into my beautiful self, I get happiness.
Everything in the universe belongs to me.
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So often it happens that with possession the vast poetry of desire must end, and the thing possessed is seldom the thing that we dreamed of.
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Self is one, personal and impersonal.
But it is only on the personal level that one comes to know the Self.
When you know the Self, you realize there are two types of knowledge.
First is to know how to exist and second is to know the all-pervading spirit.
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You have no fixed self. This is only an illusion that causes you to feel pain and suffering.
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The original, shimmering self gets buried so deep that most of us end up hardly living out of it at all. Instead we live out all the other selves, which we are constantly putting on and taking off like coats and hats against the world's weather
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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 that we patch together from memory.
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Possession which cloys man, only increases the affection of woman
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Wanting everything that's mine to actually be mine and not at the mercy of others and their mistakes.
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To know yourself you must know the transience of your self.
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Possession without understanding leads to loss.
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Meeting the "self" activates the transformation of human consciousness,
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A person archives self-realization by engaging in deliberate contemplative acts that serve to unify of all aspects of the self. To deny part of the self, a person risks spiritual decay.
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Egolessness is contentment.
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Dissatisfaction with possession and achievement is one of the requisites to further achievement.
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Spiritual-self consist of a determined soul and indomitable spirit.
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Selfness is an essential fact of life. The thought of nonselfness, precise sameness is terrifying.
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The self is a
self-made
Procrustean bed
of little comfort