Self Quotes - Page 8

There can only be two basic loves... the love of God unto the forgetfulness of self, or the love of self unto the forgetfulness and denial of God.

Live in the wisdom of accepted tenderness. Tenderness awakens within the security of knowing we are thoroughly and sincerely liked by someone...
Scripture suggests that the essence of the divine nature is compassion and that the heart of God is defined by tenderness.

Self-will and prayer are both ways of getting things done. At the center of self-will is me, carving a world in my image, but at the center of prayer is God, carving me in his Son's image.

It wasn't necessary to know your own demons in order to find God.

Words are God’s gift to mend a broken soul.

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.

It doesn't matter where you've been, only where you are going.

Hope comes not from the people around you, but from yourself.

I've tried

to become someone else for a while,
only to discover that he, too, was me.

Beyond myself, somewhere,
I wait for my arrival.

I lock my door upon myself,
And bar them out; but who shall wall
Self from myself, most loathed of all?

In a field
I am the absence
of field.
This is
always the case.
Wherever I am
I am what is missing.

Not in the clamor of the crowded street,
Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng,
But in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

Weary of myself, and sick of asking
What I am, and what I ought to be,
At this vessel's prow I stand, which bears me
Forwards, forwards, o'er the starlit sea.

And yet this self, contains
Tides, continents and stars―a myriad selves,
Is small and solitary as one grass-blade
Passed over by the wind
Amongst a myriad grasses on the prairie.

I want to unfold.
I don’t want to be folded anywhere,
because where I am folded,
there I am a lie.

To 'know Thyself' is considered quite an accomplishment.

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge-that is everywhere, that is Atman, that is in me and you and in every creature, and I am beginning to believe that this knowledge has no worse enemy than the man of knowledge, than learning.

Vengeance against predators is meals on wheels.

My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.