Quotes about Self

No consciousness that we would recognize as consciousness. Not awareness, as far as we can make out, of a self with a history. What I mind is what tends to come next. They have no consciousness therefore. Therefore what? Therefore we are free to use them for our own ends Therefore we are free to kill them? Why? What is so special about the form of consciousness that we recognize that makes killing a bearer of it a crime while killing an animal goes unpunished?

He would never want to diminish that event, that blow. It was nothing less than a calamity. It has shrunk his world, turned him into a prisoner. But escaping death ought to have shaken him up, opened windows inside him, renewed his sense of the preciousness of life. It has done nothing of the sort. He is trapped with the same old self as before , only greyer and drearier. Enough to drive one to drink.

The little flowers grew everywhere around the rocks, and no one had asked them to grow, or me to grow.

I think my sudden love for this girl is a truer expression of myself than anything.

Sonetimes the hardest person to forgive is yourself.

Of all the beautiful truths pertaining to the soul None is more gladdening or fruitful than to know You can regenerate and make yourself what you will.

What we have to be is what we are.

Our true and genuine wisdom can be summed up as the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves.

The fatal flaw of human wisdom is that it promises that you can change your relationships without needing to change yourself.

Do we not realize that the basic condition for a spiritual walk is to fear our self and its wisdom and to rely absolutely upon the Spirit?

We are to work to improve ourselves while at the same time remaining totally dependent on God.

Greatness inspires greatness. Creativity inspires creativity. When you align yourself with people who inspire you and help draw out the best in you, you find your best self.