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“Genetics do play a role in how you consciously or subconsciously manifest your true self.”

Self Play Roles Manifest True Self Genetics

Author:Ben Harper

“Happiness is your real nature. You identify with yourself with the body and mind, feel it's limitations, and suffer. Realize your true self in order to open the store of happiness. That true self is the reality, the Supreme Truth, which is the self of all the world you now see, the self of all the selves, the One real, the Supreme, the Eternal self - as distinct from the ego or the bodily idea for the self.”

World Feels Mind Ideas Real Self Body Reality Suffering Order Realizing Ego Eternal Stores Supreme Limitation True Self Mind And Body

Author:Ramana Maharshi

“Selfishness is the biggest form of helplessness as it makes the person blind so much that he fails to search his true self for being always in the lurch.”

Persons Self Form Failing Blind Selfishness True Self Helplessness

Author:Anuj

“Always with me was the inner twin: my true nature, my true self. It is timeless, free, compassionate and in love with whatever is natural to me”

Self Natural Compassionate Twins Timeless True Self True Nature

Book:The Same River Twice

Source: The Same River Twice

“Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger.”

Men Self Body Form Spirit Figures Fingers Your Body Mortals True Self

Book:De Re Publica

Source: De Re Publica

“Each time we see and are touched by the expression of some eternal principle, we catch a sweet glimpse of some aspect of our True Self.”

Self Wisdom Principles Sweet Expression Eternal Aspect Touched True Self Glimpse

Author:Guy Finley

“I've never... when I was having songs on the airwaves, and that sort of thing, I never felt a sense of pressure anywhere except from myself, to do things the way I wanted to do them; to feel authentic; to feel like I was presenting my true self to the world.”

World Way Feels Self Wanted Song Felt Pressure True Self Presenting

Author:Mary Chapin Carpenter

“The True Self is not our creation, but God's. It is the self we are in our depths. It is our capacity for divinity and transcendence.”

Self Creation Capacity Depth Divinity True Self Transcendence Real Self

Author:Sue Monk Kidd

“Man is the individualised expression or reflection of God imaged forth and made manifest in bodily form. How is it, then, I hear it asked, that man has the limitations that he has, that he is subject to fears and forebodings, that he is liable to sin and error, that he is the victim of disease and suffering? There is but one reason. He is not living, except in rare cases here and there, in the conscious realisation of his own true Being, and hence of his own true Self.”

“For many, 'desire' is a bad word, something we're supposed to 'give up for God.' That kind of thinking can be really destructive because it teaches people to deny their hearts, their true selves.”

People Thinking Giving Heart Kind Self Desire Teach Giving Up Deny Destructive True Self Bad Word

Author:Rob Bell

“A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.”

“Ultimately the body will rebel. Even if it can be temporarily pacified with the help of drugs, cigarettes or medicine, it usually has the last word because it is quicker to see through self-deception than the mind. We may ignore or deride the messages of the body, but its rebellion demands to be heeded because its language is the authentic expression of our true selves and of the strength of our vitality.”