Identification Quotes - Page 2

• The identity of the Filipino today is of a person asking what is his identity.

  Nick Joaquín

  Identity, Asking, Today

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

  Eckhart Tolle

  Thinking, Self, Suffering

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• The moment it begins to question itself, the mind becomes so clear that it starts working with itself rather than with the body's identification.

  Byron Katie

  Mind, Body, Moments

  "The Turnaround: A Byron Katie Interview" by Ray Hemachandra, rayhemachandra.com. December 3, 2013.

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• Identification prevents and perverts the flow of thought-feeling.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Attachment, Feelings, Flow

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1991). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti, (1945-1948): The Observer Is the Abserved”, Krishnamurti Foundation of Amer

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• Whether it’s a symphony or a coal mine, all work is an act of creating and comes from the same source: from an inviolate capacity to see through one’s own eyes-which means: the capacity to perform a rational identification- which means: the capacity to see, to connect and to make what had not been seen, connected and made before.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Eye, Symphony

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.92, Penguin

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• We are identifying with what is passing so fear comes. We are trying to make steady and permanent what is by nature impermanent.

  Mooji

  Inspirational, Change, Fear

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• When we tell our own story, we teach the values that our choices reveal, not as abstract principals, but as our lived experience. We reveal the kind of person we are to the extent that we let others identify with us.

  Marshall Ganz

  Inspirational, Kindness, Choices

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• My struggle has allowed me to transcend that sense of shame and stigma identified with my being a Black gay man. Having come through the fire, they can't touch me.

  Marlon Riggs

  Struggle, Gay, Men

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• No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it. It is only with your own knowledge that you can deal. It is only your own knowledge that you can claim to possess or ask others to consider. Your mind is your only judge of truth - and if others dissent from your verdict, reality is the court of final appeal. Nothing but a man's mind can perform that complex, delicate, crucial process of identification which is thinking. Nothing can direct the process but his own judgment. Nothing can direct his judgment but his moral integrity.

  Ayn Rand

  Integrity, Thinking, Reality

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.260, Penguin

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• Daumier paints with an enormous capacity for absolute empathy; a complete identification of himself with the figures he paints. He sets forth what it feels like to do something; not what somebody looks like doing it.

  David Sylvester

  Empathy, Looks, Paint

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• The mother is the early care giver and primary source of identification for all children.... A daughter continues to identify with the mother

  Nancy Chodorow

  Daughter, Mother, Children

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• Love is a state of being, and in that state, the 'me', with its identifications, anxieties, and possessions is absent. Love cannot be, as long as the activities of the self, of the 'me', whether conscious or unconscious, continue to exist.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love Is, Self, Long

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• Your burden is of false self-identifications—abandon them all.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Self, Burden, Abandon

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• Church membership was so important that Paul and Silas baptized the Philippian jailer into the membership of Christ's church at midnight with Paul's back still bloody from a beating! He did not even wait till morning! Identification with Christ's church is important; without it, one must be treated 'as a heathen and publican.'

  Jay Adams

  Morning, Waiting, Important

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• Our ideas of self are created by identification. The less we cling to ideas of self, the freer and happier we will be.

  Jack Kornfield

  Self, Ideas, Ego

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• Acceptance of what is immediately frees you from mind identification and thus reconnects you with Being. Resistance is the mind.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Acceptance, Mind, Resistance

  Eckhart Tolle (2001). “Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now”, p.116, New World Library

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• So through identification you have pleasure and pain.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Pain, Pride, Pleasure

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2010). “Choiceless Awareness”, p.140, Krishnamurti Foundation of America

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• Hold to the idea, "I am not the mind, I see that I am thinking, I am watching my mind act," and each day the identification of yourself with thoughts and feelings will grow less, until at last you can entirely separate yourself from the mind and actually know it to be apart from yourself.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiration, Thinking, Practice

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3525, Manonmani Publishers

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• It only says 'Leave' if you have no identification with yourself as a citizen of this country and you feel you have no obligation to pay your fair share.

  Randy Cohen

  Country, Citizens, Pay

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• My type of humor is almost pure identification. A housewife reads my column and says, 'But that's happened to ME! I know just what she's talking about!

  Erma Bombeck

  Women, Talking, Columns

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• People who are tremendously concerned about their identification, their individuality, their self-expression, or their sense of humor, always seem to be missing the very things they pursue.

  Walter Lippmann

  Self, Expression, People

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• In drawing attention to the physical characteristics of women leaders, they can be dismissed as either too pretty or too ugly. The net effect is to prevent women's identification with the issues. If the public women is stigmatized as too 'pretty,' she's a threat, a rival--or simply not serious; if derided as too 'ugly,' one risks tarring oneself with the same brush by identifying oneself with her agenda.

  Naomi Wolf

  Drawing, Issues, Leader

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• I think the general public's response to my projects is very strong. You can be an intellectual and say that popularity detracts from architectural quality. On the other hand, you can see in the public's identification something very positive.

  Moshe Safdie

  Strong, Thinking, Hands

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• Peace is non-resistance, complete acceptance, identification with all, everyone, everything.

  Lester Levenson

  Spiritual, Acceptance, Resistance

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• The evils of mankind are caused, not by the primary aggressiveness of individuals, but by their self-transcending identification with groups whose common denominator is low intelligence and high emotionality.

  Arthur Koestler

  Self, Evil, Groups

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