Be true to thine own self.
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I simply believe that some part of the human Self or Soul is not subject to the laws of space and time.
Public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self.
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The self is coming from a state of pure awareness from the state of being. All the rest that comes about in a outward manifestation of the physical world, including fluctuations which end up as thoughts and actions.
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
The significance of that ‘absolute commandment’, know thyself — whether we look at it in itself or under the historical circumstances of its first utterance — is not to promote mere self-knowledge in respect of the particular capacities, character, propensities, and foibles of the single self. The knowledge it commands means that of man’s genuine reality — of what is essentially and ultimately true and real — of spirit as the true and essential bein.
The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities.
That’s the way man is, cher monsieur. He has two faces: he can’t love without self-love.
For if I try to seize this self of which I feel sure, if I try to define and to summarize it, it is nothing but water slipping through my fingers.
Be that self that one is.