"The best way is to understand yourself, then you will understand everything."

-- Suzuki Roshi

"The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are."

-- Joseph Campbell

"We make a contribution to the world just by being ourselves in every moment."

-- Shakti Gawain

"You can learn to hold your own happiness lightly by remembering that you are its source and that there is an infinite supply."

-- Martha Beck

"We must see the Spirit as our own self."

-- Plotinus

"What is created through mental noise is a conceptual sense of self."

-- Eckhart Tolle

"If you're not looking for social 'profit,' but for what is of genuine worth and brings real satisfaction, pay attention to those parts of your being that seem like 'nothing.'"

-- Michael LaFargue

"As long as you're concerned about improving yourself, you'll always have a self to improve."

-- Cheri Huber

"When you really listen to yourself, you can heal yourself."

-- Ceanne Derohan

"Disappearance of the sense of self is the real truth."

--Ramana Maharshi

"Satisfaction will come to those who please themselves."

-- Arnold Lobel

"... if a person is led by the Holy spirit he no longer has any kind of self that he defends."

-- Thomas Merton

"Today assume everybody is a bit like you -- a combo if courage and fear, love and cruelty, brilliance and dullness, optimism and desperation."

-- Yehuda Berg

"I am merely Reality's way of getting certain work done that needed doing."

-- David K. Reynolds

"One's Self is the Big Book."

-- Abbot at Wat Bovornives

"Everyone is in the best seat."

-- John Cage

"Everyone carries within himself a productive uniqueness as the nucleus of his being."

-- Nietzsche

"As we open the connections between the conscious and the subconscious aspects of our beings, we reclaim our spiritual selves from isolation and neuroses."

-- Hallie Inglehart

"The less there is of self, the more there is of Self."

-- Meister Eckhart

"Life is an acting job, and you are a fictional character."

-- Marianne Williamson