Sense Of Self Quotes - Page 8

• Many things in your life matter, but only one thing matters absolutely.It matters whether you succeed or fail in the eyes of the world. It matters whether you are healthy or not healthy, whether you are educated or not educated. It matter whether you are rich or poor - it certainly makes a difference in your life. Yes, all these things matter, relatively speaking, but they don't matter absolutely.There is something that matters more than any of those things and that is finding the essence of who you are beyond that short-lived entity, that short-lived personalized sense of self.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Eye, Rich Or Poor, Self

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.51, New World Library

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• I'm so happy that I finished college. Going into this crazy vortex of scrutiny is tough. If I was younger than I was now and I was going to fashion shows, I might have this distorted sense of self. I might rely on those cameras. Because when I was 18, I was half-baked.

  Allison Williams

  Fashion, Crazy, College

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• I have a strong sense of self, but that's not a negative thing.

  Ray LaMontagne

  Strong, Self, Negative

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• Putting on a beautifully designed suit elevates my spirit, extols my sense of self, and helps define me as a man to whom details matter.

  Gay Talese

  Fashion, Men, Self

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• I think kids who have music in their lives are more focused. They have better attention spans. They excel more in their studies. They have a better sense of self-esteem and self-worth.

  Ingrid Michaelson

  Self Esteem, Kids, Self Worth

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I never had any question that my parents loved me. I had a real sense of self confidence.

  Jeannette Walls

  Confidence, Real, Self

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• When a caterpillar spins its cocoon, it goes through a transformative process and then emerges as a butterfly. Similarly, when we go through a practice of meditation and prayer, we loosen our egoic grip on a sense of self that is separate from the Whole and become vehicles of the emergent evolutionary paradigm of love, peace , compassion, wisdom, harmony and oneness that seeks expression on the planet.

  Michael Beckwith

  Inspirational, Prayer, Butterfly

  FaceBook post by Michael Bernard Beckwith from Jan 14, 2013

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• The idea that money brings power and independence is an illusion. What money usually brings is the need for more money - and there is a shabby and pathetic powerlessness that comes with that need. The inability to risk new lives, new work, new styles of thought and experience, is more often than not tied to the bourgeois fear of reducing one's material standard of living. That is, indeed, to be owned by possessions, to be governed by a sense of property rather than by a sense of self.

  Vivian Gornick

  Money, Self, Ideas

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• Most people spend their entire life imprisoned within the confines of their own thoughts. They never go beyond a narrow, mind-made, personalized sense of self that is conditioned by the past.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Past, Self, People

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.13, New World Library

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• Forgiveness happens naturally when you see that it has no purpose other than to strengthen a false sense of self, to keep the ego in place.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Self, Ego, Purpose

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.52, Penguin

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• Meditation is coming back to your original self, if we can use self without a sense of self. It's perfect, clear light, radiant, infinite mind of the universe, as it is, without identifying with qualities

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Self

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• In self-giving you must be so careful of egotism. You must be so careful when you are aiding others in their liberation not to have a sense of self.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Compassion, Self

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• Ego synthesized is selfhood, the sense of self-importance, that you really matter ... nothing could be further from the truth.

  Frederick Lenz

  Humility, Buddhism, Self

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• On waking from the dream, we see that birth and death, the sense of self, other - all of these things fade away.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Yoga, Self

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• The whole objective universe is created, ordered, by our perception and by our sense of self.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Self, Perception

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• To encounter Christ is to touch reality and experience transcendence. He gives us a sense of self-worth or personal significance, because He assures us of God's love for us. He sets us free from guilt because He died for us and from paralyzing fear because He reigns. He gives meaning to marriage and home, work and leisure, personhood and citizenship.

  John Stott

  Home, Self Worth, Reality

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• The most important enemy for everyone is their own illusion that makes them unrealistic or exaggerates their sense of self-importance in the world. Ironically, you're the super secret enemy. Whether lay or householder, everyone has that internal enemy.

  Robert Thurman

  Self, Secret, Enemy

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Perhaps no sin so easily besets us as a sense of self-satisfied superiority to others.

  William Osler

  Self, Sin, Satisfied

  Sir William Osler, Mark E. Silverman, T. J. Murray, Charles S. Bryan, American College of Physicians--American Society of Internal Medicine (2003). “The Quotable Osler”, p.9, ACP Press

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• Selecting a challenge and meeting it creates a sense of self-empowerment that becomes the ground for further successful challenges.

  Julia Cameron

  Successful, Self, Challenges

  Julia Cameron (2002). “The Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.163, Penguin

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• The samsara is the sense of self. I've had past experiences. I'm aware of the moment. I will have future experiences.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ignorance, Past, Self

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• As a producer, it starts when I talk about privacy and silence. It starts before anybody believes in it. And I think that's, you have to have a real sense of self, and in order to push things through. And so often, what's interesting, is how many people dismiss an idea that eventually everybody [gloms] onto. So to me it's, that's what I mean by hard.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Real, Believe, Mean

  "10 Years After 'Brokeback,' Jake Gyllenhaal Remembers Heath Ledger: "Way Beyond His Years as a Human"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 25, 2015.

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• It reminds me that those of us who turn in disgust from what we consider an overinflated liberal-bourgeois sense of self should be careful what we wish for: our denuded networked selves don't look more free, they just look more owned.

  Zadie Smith

  Self, Wish, Looks

  "Generation Why?" by Zadie Smith, www.nybooks.com. November 25, 2010.

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• The most effective way to close down the human mind and to manipulate its sense of self is to program into it some form of dogma. A dogma will always vehemently defend itself from other information and repel any alternative opinion which contradicts its narrow, solidified view. Dogmas become a person's sense of security and means of retaining power, and humanity tends to cling to both until its knuckles turn white. Dogmas take endless forms, and when you can persuade different people to hold opposing dogmas, the manipulation of conflict and control through "divide and rule" becomes easy.

  David Icke

  Mean, White, Self

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• Superficial to understand the journal as just a receptable for one's private, secret thoughts - like a confidante who is deaf, dumb, and illiterate. In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could to any person; I create myself. ... The journal is a vehicle for my sense of selfhood. It represents me as emotionally and spiritually independent. Therefore (alas) it does not simply record my actual, daily life but rather - in many cases - offers an alternative to it.

  Susan Sontag

  Independent, Dumb, Secret

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• Some feminist critics debate whether we take our meaning and sense of self from language and in that process become phallocentric ourselves, or if there is a use of language that is, or can be, feminine. Some, like myself, think that language is itself neither male nor female; it is creatively expansive enough to be of use to those who have the wit and art to wrest from it their own significance. Even the dread patriarchs have not found a way to 'own' language any more than they have found a way to 'own' earth (though many seem to believe that both are possible).

  Paula Gunn Allen

  Art, Believe, Thinking

  Paula Gunn Allen (1998). “Off the Reservation: Reflections on Boundary-busting Border-crossing Loose Canons”, Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press

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