Self

"If you go to Jesus to get a new personality, Lewis says, you still haven't really gone to Jesus. Your real self will not come out as long as you are looking for it; it will only emerge when you're looking for Him."

"It’s not a lack of opportunity around me. Rather, it’s a lack of faith within me."

"Build your self in the Holy Faith."

"We are spiritual children of God the Father. We preach it. We sing it. But do we really understand it? Sometimes it’s easy to tell others they are loved, but not so easy to believe it of ourselves — not because we don’t think God loves His children, but because we may feel undeserving of His love. The adversary loves to remind us who we are not. Not pretty. Not smart. Not strong. But God would not have sacrificed His Son to save us if we aren’t worth saving."

"Silent solitude makes true speech possible and personal. If I am not in touch with my own belovedness, then I cannot touch the sacredness of others. If I am estranged from myself, I am likewise a stranger to others."

"I want to unfold. I don’t want to be folded anywhere,because where I am folded,there I am a lie."

"And yet this self, contains Tides, continents and stars―a myriad selves,Is small and solitary as one grass-blade Passed over by the wind Amongst a myriad grasses on the prairie."

"Then you are a poet' she asked, fingering the flyer in her pocket.'No not at all,' he waved his hand. 'I am merely a character in a poem."

"Weary of myself, and sick of asking What I am, and what I ought to be, At this vessel's prow I stand, which bears me Forwards, forwards, o'er the starlit sea."

"Not in the clamor of the crowded street,Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng,But in ourselves, are triumph and defeat."

"In a field I am the absenceof field. This isalways the case. Wherever I am I am what is missing."

"What makes us leave what we love best?What is it inside us that keeps erasing itself When we need it most,That sends us into uncertainty for its own sake And holds us flush there until we begin to love it And have to begin again?What is it within our own lives we decline to live Whenever we find it, making our days unendurable,And nights almost visionless?I still don't know yet, but I do it."

"I lock my door upon myself, And bar them out; but who shall wall Self from myself, most loathed of all?"

"I've triedto become someone else for a while,only to discover that he, too, was me."

"Beyond myself, somewhere, I wait for my arrival."

"All suffering is caused by one belief...the belief in separation"

"To begin to know ourselves we must have sincere conversations with ourselves as if with a good friend. We must answer without reserve, listen without judgement, and accept without condition. That is self-love."

"Anger gets you into trouble, ego keeps you in trouble."

"Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not."

"You don't need to be everyone, nothing is ever awesome than to be comfortable in your own skin."