Self Understanding Quotes

"The ego is not master in its own house." "I’m not arrogant enough to look back on my career and criticize my choices It’s really not my place." "People say I make strange choices, but they’re not strange for me. My sickness is that I’m fascinated by human behavior, by what’s underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people." "For it is easy to criticize and break down the spirit of others, but to know yourself takes a lifetime." "My wealth is in my knowledge of self, love, and spirituality." "The poor ego has a still harder time of it; it has to serve three harsh masters, and it has to do its best to reconcile the claims and demands of all three." "The ego-feeling we are aware of now is thus only a shrunken vestige of a far more extensive feeling." "We are what we are because we have been what we have been." "Dreams tell us many an unpleasant biological truth about ourselves and only very free minds can thrive on such a diet." "Self-deception is a plant which withers fast in the pellucid atmosphere of dream investigation." "We know what we are but know not what we may be." "I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labelled." "If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people." "What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me." "Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves" "Our ignorance allowed us to live, as you are in exile and know that you are competing inside the world and against the world, without recourse to perspective or mediation" "No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself." "So make a choice. Continue living your life feeling muddled in this abyss of self-misunderstanding, or you find your identity independent of it." "Authenticity is, at its heart, the recognition of what you truly need" "Society itself is the work of minds seeking to master the mystery of man"