Quotes about Self

I believe the more important thing is your mind and your heart. Those two things are the most ignored parts of our beings.

The aim is not therefore to liberate some 'essential self' by throwing off the burden of government and the State, but to develop the self in creative and voluntary relations with others.

Jesus was not SELFLESS. He did not live as if ONLY other people counted. He knew his value and worth. He had friends. He asked people to help him. At the same time Jesus was not SELFISH. He did not live as if nobody counted. He gave his life out of love for others. From a place of loving union with his Father, Jesus had a mature, healthy 'true self.

The true vocation for every human being is, as Kierkegaard said, "the will to be oneself."5

God never asks us to annihilate the self. We are not to become "non-persons" when we become Christians. The very opposite is true. God intends our deeper, truer self, which he created, to blossom as we follow him.

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I truly believe the greatest gift we can give the world is our true self living in loving union with God.

Healing our image of God heals our image of ourselves.

Whatever we are, whatever we make of ourselves, is all we will ever have — and that, in its profound simplicity, is the meaning of life.

Self-love is the source of all our other loves.

I just like showing people - and this might be at the root of everything that I've done - that I don't want to be looked at as a baseball robot.

The me that is me is not my body. It's an awareness and an experience.