Essential Self Quotes

“Memoir writing draws on all aspects of who we are, body, mind and soul. We are challenged to dig deep, to remember, and once again inhabit the skin of who we were and what we have learned. Writing memoir is an act of testimony, witnessing, healing. When you write a memoir, you draw upon layers of your consciousness and discover your true nature, your essential self, and are transformed the process.” Linda Joy Meyer”
― Rossandra White

“Who you essentially are—the reason why you were put on this earth—is what you never grow tired of being.”
― Clifford Cohen

“Dangerous falsehoods prevent a person from maturing into his or her essential self. Recognizing personal fictions is the first step in self-healing and personal transcendence. Americans tend to focus on obtaining exterior symbols of success rather than working to awaken their consciousness. Valuing people by their usefulness and richness discounts the innate dignity of humankind. The quality of a person’s consciousness determines his or her capability to experience bliss. Ego gratification represents the darkest part of human nature.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“for Ghazālī, there is no essential self that can
guide itself; there are only potentialities of the soul that can be realized through or against a living tradition”
― Talal Asad, Secular Translations: Nation-State, Modern Self, and Calculative Reason

“What we most need is what we already are: our essential Self. There is no escape; there is only coming home [...] The submission of the lower self to the Higher Self, of the self to the Whole in each moment, becomes the central fact of existence. Submission is t olive for one's Self - the eternal I - not for one's ego.”
― Kabir Edmund Helminski, Living Presence: A Sufi Way to Mindfulness & the Essential Self

“Whenever we feel overwhelmed, it can help to reconnect with that soft, still voice.”
― Laurie E. Smith

“Trust your creative voice.”
― Laurie E. Smith