Self-Orientation Quotes

You think of stars as ambitious or aggressive or self-oriented.

I'm not selfish before a fight or afterwards, but for the time of the fight itself, I have to think totally of myself.

We are part of a mystery, a splendid mystery within which we must attempt to orient ourselves if we are to have a sense of our own nature.

The ego is goal-oriented. The ego is hankering for the future. It can hanker even for the other life, it can hanker for heaven, it can hanker for nirvana. It doesn't matter what it hankers for - hankering is what it is, desiring is what it is, projecting into the future is what it is.

People see themselves as the center of the universe and judge everything as it relates to them.

Egoic consciousness is the one we all normally operate with, until we are told there is something else! Every culture teaches egoic consciousness in different ways. At that level it is all about me, my preferences, my choices, my needs, my desires and me and my group as the central reference point.

I had made myself the center of my own existence and had my back turned to God.

Teenagers only have to focus on themselves - its not until we get older that we realize that other people exist.