Pema Chodron Quotes

I was deaf and dumb and blind to all but me, myself and I.

Projecting yourself until everything is talking about you is, of course, a self-flattering form of self-pity

[Dona Maria] saw that the people of this world moved about in an armor of egotism, drunk with self-gazing, athirst for compliments, hearing little of what was said to them, unmoved by the accidents that befell their closest friends, in dread of all appeals that might interrupt their long communion with their own desires.

Self-pity is egotism undiluted, after all—self-centeredness in its purest form.

Self-absorption intensifies isolation, but permits it to go unnoticed.

I lived with the only continuity, day to day, of the me-me-me.

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.

I never really look at other people; I just worry about myself.

Usually, I'm so self-absorbed that my companion could be bleeding to death, and I might not notice.

In all that surrounds him the egotist sees only the frame of his own portrait.

Dwelling upon the self too much produces terrible fatigue. A man in that position is deaf and blind to everything else. The fatigue itself makes him cease to see the marvels all around.

Never underestimate the power of self-absorption, including your parents' self-absorption.

Self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion. When we focus on ourselves, our world contracts as our problems and preoccupations loom large. But when we focus on others, our world expands. Our own problems drift to the periphery of the mind and so seem smaller, and we increase our capacity for connection - or compassionate action.

You’re a human, you should understand self-obsession.

And there was a beutiful view But nobody could see Cause everybody on the island Was saying Look at me! Look at me.

When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.

I'm not interested in people being interested in me.

Some people spend their lives interested only in themselves.

Fear's greatest weapon is its ability to blind one to anything. In its presence, we forget there are others to consider, things to save besides ourselves.

Pride, like the magnet, constantly points to one object, self; but, unlike the magnet, it has no attractive pole, but at all points repels.

Selfishness is the making a man's self his own centre, the beginning and end of all he doeth.

I’d always thought I was above being fascinated by anyone but myself.

I realize now that people are not thinking about you and me or caring what is said about us. They are thinking about themselves-before breakfast, after breakfast, and right on until ten minutes past midnight. They would be a thousand times more concerned about a slight headache of their own than they would about the news of your death or mine.

The vain being is the really solitary being.

I didn't know what narcissism was until I beheld my own naricssus.