Quotes about Self

We tend to become the decisions we make. The more we choose something, the more we become that something. We are all in the process of solidifying our identities by the decisions we make. With each decision we make, we pick up momentum in the direction of that decision.

We can think of the Matrix as the total web of lies we've internalized that keep us living in contradiction to our true self— the self that is defined by God through Christ alone.

Every shortcoming, every sin, every struggle in the believer's life in one way or another can be traced to the influence of the flesh on our way of seeing and experiencing ourselves in our world—our experienced self-identity.

The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.

I cultivate my garden, and my garden cultivates me.

Perhaps God gives us a physical body so that every time we change our mind, we won't be someone else.

All your life you pretend to be someone else, and it turns out that you were someone else pretending to be you.

Why try to be someone you're not? Life is hard enough without adding impersonation to the skills required.

In daylight I belong to the world . . . in the night to sleep and eternity. But in the dusk I'm free from both and belong only to myself . . . and you

if I wasn't ME who'd I be?

The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.

Solitude is the furnace of transformation. Without solitude we remain victims of our society and continue to be entangled in the illusions of the false self.