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“The man who is not ‘sincere’ to others is not ‘sincere’ to his own self!”
“All which is regarded as ‘my’, belongs to the non-Self. ‘I’ is the Self and ‘my’ is of the non-Self; it is pudgal, the body-complex. There is nothing wrong with saying ‘this is mine’ in the worldly...”
“Not knowing one’s real Self is the greatest of maya (deceit; illusion). Once this ignorance is removed, the illusion departs.”
“He'd solved the problem you see—and that's the way some people are. They are ceaselessly finding ways of getting to grips with the world, of surmounting certain antipathies so as to apply themselve...”
“A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope, without friends, without books, even without music, as long as he can listen to his own thoughts.”
“From so much self-revising, I’ve destroyed myself. From so much self-thinking, I’m now my thoughts and not I”
“When you're rotten about yourself, you become rotten to everyone else, even thoseyou love.”
“[T]hou canst not think worse of me than I do of myself.”
“What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.”
“Perhaps, as we say in America, I wanted to find myself. This is an interesting phrase, not current as far as I know in the language of any other people, which certainly does not mean what it says b...”
“Can't get away from your own self.”
“Wherever you go, there you are.”
“He was assaulting the world by assaulting himself.”
“She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.”
“It's vital to remember who you really are. It's very important. It isn't a good idea to rely on other people or things to do it for you, you see. They always get it wrong.”
“How can I accept a limited definable self when I feel, in me, all possibilities?... I never feel the four walls around the substance of the self, the core. I feel only space. Illimitable space.”
“Now comes the hour to choose between being acceptable to others or being acceptable to one's own self, for we must kill our true selves off in order to survive.”
“Truly, nothing in the world has so occupied my thoughts as this I, this riddle, the fact I am alive, that I am separated and isolated from all others, that I am Siddhartha! And about nothing in the...”
“I often think of the image only I can see now, and of which I’ve never spoken. It’s always there, in the same silence, amazing. It’s the only image of myself I like, the only one in which I recogni...”
“He lived at a little distance from his body, regarding his own acts with doubtful side-glasses.”
