“ What you usually refer to when you say “I” is not who you are. By a monstrous act of reductionism, the infinite depth of who you are is confused with a sound produced by the vocal cords or the thought… Eckhart Tolle
“ To be ‘one’ in one’s own hands is to be ‘one.’ To be ‘one’ in the hands of God is to be ‘one’ that is far too vast to be counted. Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ My anger feels hot and bilious but I keep it bottled until it doubles back and I'm mad at myself. Gayle Forman
“ You are the decision you make. The things you do. The people you love and who love you. They're the things that really make you who you are. Katie Dale
“ Persons Are Turned against Themselves Evil also turns a person against herself so that self is used against self. The case of the woman who received a dismissal letter from her pastor comes to mind ag… J. Jeffrey Means
“ Sam believes now that people repeatedly collide with each other swiftly, brutally – not to produce children but to shatter their sense of self, and be thrust into a creative space beyond reason, where… Barry Webster
“ We may take it that the world is undoubtedly itself [i.e., is indistinct from itself], but, in any attempt to see itself, as an object, it must, equally, undoubtedly act so as to make itself distinct… G. Spencer Brown
“ It follows that I must accept myself for what I am before I can deliberately change it. Christmas Humphreys
“ When a man does not dwell in self, then things will of themselves reveal their forms to him. His movement is like that of water, his stillness like that of a mirror, his responses like those of an ech… Zhuangzi
“ I am not my opinion of myself, I am not anything I can describe to me. I am only a part of a large system that cannot describe itself fully; therefore, I relax and I am in the point source of consciou… John C. Lilly
“ I depart as air, I shake my white locks at the runway sun, I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love. If you want me again look for me under your boot soles. You will hardly know who… Walt Whitman
“ No Self stands alone. Behind it stretches an immense chain of physical and - as a special class within the whole - mental events, to which it belongs as a reacting member and which it carries on. Thro… Erwin Schrodinger
“ Maybe that was one of the problems with these men who lived forever, they'd built up an immunity or resistance to affection. Perhaps because when everyone they knew and loved continued to die, they re… Caroline Hanson
“ You must know everything that God has forbidden you so as to be able to avoid it, for the one who does not recognize evil falls into it. ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAlawī al-Ḥaddād
“ There, sitting cross-legged on the floor, he stared absently at his legs. They began to look strange. They no longer seemed to grow from his trunk at all, but rather, completely unconnected, they spra… Sōseki Natsume
