- “From a social psychological standpoint, the selfie phenomenon seems to stem from two basic human motives. The first is to attract attention from other people. Because people’s positive social outcomes in life require that others know them, people are motivated to get and maintain social attention. By posting selfies, people can keep themselves in other people’s minds. In addition, like all photographs that are posted on line, selfies are used to convey a particular impression of oneself. Through the clothes one wears, one’s expression, staging of the physical setting, and the style of the photo, people can convey a particular public image of themselves, presumably one that they think will garner social rewards.” ― Mark R. Leary
- “Your identity is no more than the memory of your mind, and the time you learn to consciously look into your memories of the past, the first time you realize that nowhere you exist in your mind.” ― Roshan Sharma
- “If you can afford to live in this worldly life, then there is nothing you need to understand further, and if you find the worldly life bothersome then you need to understand spirituality. In spirituality, we need to know the nature of the Self (Soul). When ‘who am I?’ is known then all puzzles will be solved.” ― Dada Bhagwan, Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization
- “Imagine for a second what it would be like if you were free from constraints of the small self, identity, just for a few seconds. What would you do? What would you say? Who would you be?” ― Mark Echardt
- “We fail to see the oneness of all things, and because of this, we unknowingly cause a lot of harm to ourselves. We pollute the Earth that we live on, cut down the trees that produce our oxygen, destroy the ecosystems of nature and the animals that maintain them, and we mistreat and harm each other, thinking that these destructive actions will not have a direct effect on us.” ― Joseph P. Kauffman, The Answer Is YOU: A Guide to Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Freedom
- “Jehovah, the Christian name for God derived from the Hebrew Yahweh, (from the letters YHWH), is translated as “I AM.” YOU ARE the essence of life—the Cosmic Consciousness that creates, lives in, and destroys all things. In Buddhism, your true nature is referred to as your “Buddha Nature.” Muslims refer to it as Allah, Native tribes have often called it the Great Spirit, Taoists refer to it as the Tao, and numerous other cultures throughout history have all created their own distinctive names for it. But the one eternal reality that these cultures point to remains the same—and this reality is YOU.” ― Joseph P. Kauffman, The Answer Is YOU: A Guide to Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Freedom
- “Not a believer in the mosque am I,Nor a disbeliever with his rites am I.I am not the pure amongst the impure,I am neither Moses nor Pharaoh.Bulleh, I know not who I am.Not in the holy books am I,Nor do I dwell in bhang or wine,Nor do I live in a drunken haze,Nor in sleep or waking known.Bulleh, I know not who I am.Not in happiness or in sorrow am I found.I am neither pure nor mired in filthy ground.Not of water nor of land,Nor am I in air or fire to be found.Bulleh, I know not who I am.Not an Arab nor Lahori,Not a Hindi or Nagouri,Nor a Muslim or Peshawari,Not a Buddhist or a Christian.Bulleh, I know not who I am.Secrets of religion have I not unravelled,I am not of Eve and Adam.Neither still nor moving on,I have not chosen my own name!Bulleh, I know not who I am.From first to last, I searched myself.None other did I succeed in knowing.Not some great thinker am I.Who is standing in my shoes, alone?Bulleh, I know not who I am.” ― Bulleh Shah
- “We must learn to be with ourselves beforewe can be with anyone else.” ― Lidia Longorio, Hey Humanity
- “omnis mundi creatura / quasi liber et pictura / nobis est in speculum(all the creatures of the world / as a book and a picture / are to us a mirror)” ― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
- “If you cling onto the temporary, then you will become temporary, therefore cling onto that which is permanent. Cling onto the Gnani Purush. The Gnani Purush is a dehadhari parmatma (the absolute Self in a human body)!” ― Dada Bhagwan, The Essence Of All Religion
- “Where we fall are the stepping-stones for our journey.” ― Lolly Daskal, Thoughts Spoken From The Heart
- “Everything you experience is a blessing and pushes you toward realizing your true self.” ― Vivian Amis, I Am: The Key to Manifesting
- “Shall you live authentically who you are or will you spend your allotted living the life of someone you imagine your self to be?” ― Dr Earl R. Smith II
- “The Self says ‘I AM’–as in the very grand sayings of Christ, especially in the Gospel of John, in which he says in the state of onenenss with Yahweh (which in Hebrew means ‘I AM’), I AM is the way and the truth and the life–but the ego says ‘I am this’ or ‘I am that,’ thus attaching itself only to a small portion of the Vastness. (62)” ― Ravi Ravindra, The Wisdom of Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras: A New Translation and Guide by Ravi Ravindra
- “Happiness is attained, not through self-interest, but through unconditional fidelity in endless love of eternal light.” ― Aaron Cohen
- “If we become aware that someone is sending thoughts of ill will in our direction, we do not argue with the apparent reality of malice. To do so would give it more substance. We remove the personal sense of ourself and the other person.” ― Donna Goddard, The Love of Devotion
- “We’ (Gnani Purush, the enlightened one) have natural and spontaneous forgiveness; we do not have to maintain forgiveness. To maintain forgiveness requires effort. To do an effort is not (True) Knowledge. Forgiveness is a natural attribute of the ultimate state (of enlightenment). There is natural and spontaneous forgiveness (of the enlightened one) since the last two or three lives. There is pure love in natural and spontaneous forgiveness.” ― Dada Bhagwan, Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization
- “The victory over our inner self is a daily struggle. Be strong and do not give up.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
- “But the shadow is merely somewhat inferior, primitive, unadapted, and awkward; not wholly bad. It even contains childish or primitive qualities which would in a way vitalize and embellish human existence, but convention forbids!” ― Carl G. Jung
- “To connect the meditator (dhyata) to the object of meditation (dhyeya) is Purusharth (spiritual effort to progress as the Self) and meditation (dhyan) is the effect [resultant state].” ― Dada Bhagwan, Anger
- “Every being experiences themselves as the center of their experience. Consciousness is what lies at our very core, and connects us all to each other. We may appear to be separate and individual because of the various forms our Consciousness inhabits, but below the surface the substance of our being is one and the same.” ― Joseph P. Kauffman, The Answer Is YOU: A Guide to Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Freedom
- “Ignore self –doubt and inner conflict. Dwell on positive thoughts.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
- “How big we are ‘not’ is evidenced when we stand face-to-face with everything else, including ourselves.” ― Craig D. Lounsbrough
- “Over the years, I have come to realize that the greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity, or power, but self-rejection. Success, popularity, and power can indeed present a great temptation, but their seductive quality often comes from the way they are part of the much larger temptation to self-rejection. When we have come to believe in the voices that call us worthless and unlovable, then success, popularity, and power are easily perceived as attractive solutions. The real trap, however, is self-rejection. As soon as someone accuses me or criticizes me, as soon as I am rejected, left alone, or abandoned, I find myself thinking, “Well, that proves once again that I am a nobody.” … [My dark side says,] I am no good… I deserve to be pushed aside, forgotten, rejected, and abandoned. Self-rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the sacred voice that calls us the “Beloved.” Being the Beloved constitutes the core truth of our existence.” ― Henri J.M. Nouwen
- “I am authenticI live in harmony with who I amI am true to my nature” ― Ora Nadrich, Live True: A Mindfulness Guide to Authenticity
- “Your real self may be hiding somewhere, look for it within, when you find yourself, you can freely be what you want to be.” ― Michael Bassey Johnson
- “Please, touch me, I pray.” ― Jess C Scott, The Intern
- “God is the ultimate ground of Being, and this ultimate ground of Being is YOU. For one who realizes their true nature as God, as Consciousness, life becomes a joy without end.” ― Joseph P. Kauffman, The Answer Is YOU: A Guide to Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Freedom
- “We search for happiness across every landscape, if only we knew that the seed in which it first grows, is planted within ourselves…” ― Seja Majeed, The Forgotten Tale of Larsa
- “Your true being, as Consciousness, is ever at peace, ever at rest, eternally existing in the dimension of here and now. It is the formless and eternal quality within you that expresses itself through the world of form.” ― Joseph P. Kauffman, The Answer Is YOU: A Guide to Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Freedom