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We have the choice of two identities: the external mask which seems to be real...and the hidden, inner person who seems to us to be nothing, but who can give himself eternally to the truth in whom he subsists. (295)

~ Thomas Merton

Thomas Merton False Self Hidden Feelings Mark Reality True Self

There's no weakness as great as false strength.

~ Stefan Molyneux

Stefan Molyneux Abuse Childhood Trauma False Self Psychology Self Esteem Self Knowledge Therapy Trauma

Secularity is a way of being dependent on the responses of our milieu. The secular or false self is the self which is fabricated, as Thomas Merton says, by social compulsions. 'Compulsive' is indeed the best adjective for the false self. It points to the need for ongoing and increasing affirmation. Who am I? I am the one who is liked, praised, admired, disliked, hated or despised. Whether I am a pianist, a businessman or a minister, what matters is how I am perceived by my world. If being busy is a good thing, then I must be busy. If having money is a sign of real freedom, then I must claim my money. If knowing many people proves my importance, I will have to make the necessary contacts. The compulsion manifests itself in the lurking fear of failure and the steady urge to prevent this by gathering more of the same - more work, more money, more friends.

~ Henri J.m. Nouwen

Henri J.m. Nouwen False Self Perception Self Esteem Self Perception Worldliness

Our need to be greater than or less than has been a defense against toxic shame. A shameful act was committed upon us. The perpetrator walked away, leaving us with the shame. We absorbed the notion that we are somehow defective. To cover for this we constructed a false self, a masked self. And it is this self that is the overachiever or the dunce, the tramp or the puritan, the powermonger or the pathetic loser.

~ Maureen Brady

Maureen Brady Abuse Survivors Ashamed Child Sexual Abuse Child Sexual Abuse Survivor Coverup Defective Defective Humans Dunce False Self Feeling Bad Healing Healing Insights Hidden Feelings Hidden Pain Hidden Self Incest Loser Overachiever Power Trip Puritan Recovery From Abuse Shame Survivor Toxic Shame True Self

Serious spiritual practice is more than serene walks in the woods, lit candles and incense. You have to be committed. You have to be willing to enter into your own darkness and transcend it.

~ Maria Erving

Maria Erving Awakening Awakening The Consciousness Consciousness Ego False Self Spiritual Development Spiritual Growth Spiritual Transformation True Spirituality

The awakening process is not about 'finding who you are' but more about finding out about the ego, about who you are not.

~ Maria Erving

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We are all lies waiting for the day when we will break free from our cocoon and become the beautiful truth we waited for.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Shannon L. Alder Cocoon Desires False Beliefs False Self Fantasies Fear Lies Living A Lie Living Authentically Needs Secrets Truth Wants Wrong Perceptions

The ultimate barrier against love is the barrier of the constructed self.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

Vironika Tugaleva Authentic Self Authenticity Ego False Self Identity The Mask True Self

Healthy people understand that others have the capacity to choose to end relationships and it serves as motivation for them to learn to relate in healthy and loving ways. However, when we are driven by shame, we don't just fear losing a relationship, but we live in terror that if we let anyone really get to know us, we would never be desired, pursued, or loved. In us, that fear can be worked out in the development of unhealthy denial, workaholism, perfectionism, chameleon-type behavior, and sadly, even revictimization... When we live in denial or present a false self out of fear... we will do anything to be accepted by people... When we begin to tell the truth about what happened to us we also begin the process of turning about from this type of idolatry... When we begin to tear away our layers of illegitimate shame... When our own vision is not distorted by our shame we can discern what was our responsibility and what wasn't.

~ Wendy J. Mahill

Wendy J. Mahill Abuse Survivors Being Exposed Chameleon Chameleon Type Behavior Dysfunctional Relationships False Self Fast Of Being Alone Fast Of Rejection Fear Of Being Found Out Fear Of Being Known Fear Of Exposure Fear Of Intimacy Healing Insights Hiding From The Past Revictimization Self Hate Shame Unhealthy Coping Unhealthy Habits Unhealthy Relationships Vulnerable Wearing A Mask Workaholic
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