Roberto Assagioli Quotes

A conscious mind is a mind with a self in it.

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

I am not an image. I am a human being.

When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself. When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world. Your innermost sense of self, of who you are, is inseparable from stillness. This is the I Am that is deeper than name and form.

Where are my sensations? They have melted into... me, and what is this me, this self, but the sum of these evaporated sensations?

Attachment is the shadow of the ego. Attachments are immediately created wherever you see 'I am'.

I am me, whatever that means. I am conscious.

The man of control lives in choice, and the man of understanding lives in choicelessness.

The secret to peace-of-mind is to not identify with anything other than your true self.

I wondered, as I wondered so often when I was that age, who I was, and what exactly was looking at the face in the mirror. If the face I was looking at wasn't me, and I knew it wasn't, because I would still be me whatever happened to my face, then what was me? And what was watching?

A self - a me - exists in every thought and every emotion. Suffering arises through complete identification with thinking and emotions.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.

To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.

Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle of reason and responsibility in us. It is the root of freedom, it is what makes us men.

In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit.

Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.

I can't turn off the way I think, and that's essentially who I am, who anybody is.

If you are vigilant and make a stern effort to reject every thought when it rises, you will soon find that you are going deeper and deeper into your own inner self, where there is no need for your effort to reject the thoughts.

You don't have a soul; you are your own soul. In other words, you are not this book, your social security card, your body, or your mind. You are you.

It's important that a person doesn't lose track of himself.

I think, in the end, we are all our own individual person.

They can give you all the pills on earth and do whatever - and you're still yourself.

I suppose identity depends on memory. And if my memory is blotted out, then I wonder if I exist - I mean, if I am the same person. Of course, I don't have to solve that problem. It's up to God, if any.

The world is not outside you.

Your self is sacred; be true to it.