Self Distancing Quotes

“Witnessing is the alchemy of enlightenment. It can transform mud into gold.”
― Amit Ray, Enlightenment Step by Step

“Witnessing is not flowing with the current of the river but observing the flow from the bank of the river.”
― Amit Ray, Enlightenment Step by Step

“The more I disliked myself the more wretched I grew. The difference now was that this mood did not manifest itself in sullen silence; I merely made use of my barbed tongue to wound them and spoil their pleasure.”
― Victoria Holt, Menfreya in the Morning

“The anarch sticks to facts, not ideas. He suffers not for facts but because of them, and usually through his own fault, as in a traffic accident. Certainly, there are unforeseeable things – maltreatments. However, I believe I have attained a certain degree of self-distancing that allows me to regard this as an accident.”
― Ernst Jünger, Eumeswil

“Self-distancing is changing the perspective of life by observing inner feelings and experiences from distance with different angles, filters and lenses.”
― Amit Ray, Enlightenment Step by Step