Quotes about Self

Since happiness is nothing else than the enjoyment of the Supreme Good, and the Supreme Good is above us, no one can enjoy happiness unless he rises above himself.

It is not our body which feels, not our mind which thinks, but we, as single human beings, who both feel and think.

What do you expect, one is what one is, partly at least.

It sometimes happens and will sometimes happen again that I forget who I am and strut before my eyes, like a stranger.

I am just like a man who hath nothing to pay his thousands of debt; all that can be gotten of him, is to seize upon his person. Except Christ would seize upon myself, and make the readiest payment that can be of my heart and love to Himself, I have no other thing to give Him.

How you spend your time defines who you are.

Nothing binds you except your thoughts; nothing limits you except your fear; and nothing controls you except your beliefs.

It is our own thoughts that hold the key to miraculous transformation.

We lack faith in *what* exists within us because we lack faith in *Who* exists within us.

There is nowhere you need go to find God, for God is within you. There is no one you need ask if you are good enough, for He has already established He is exceedingly well pleased.

And that's what this world is: a mass hallucination, where fear seems more real than love. Fear is an illusion. Our craziness, paranoia, anxiety and trauma are literally all imagined. That is not to say they don't exist for us as human beings. They do. But our fear is not our ultimate reality, and it does not replace the truth of who we really are. Our love, which is our real self, doesn't die, but merely goes underground.

Withholding love is a form of self-sabotage, as what we withhold from others, we are withholding from ourselves.