That which comes and goes, rises and sets, is born and dies is the ego. That which always abides, never changes, and is devoid of qualities is the Self.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.
Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.
One isn't born one's self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people's ideas - and you have to work through it all.
Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become.
But egoism is more than this. It is the realization by the individual that he is above all institutions and all formulas; that they exist only so far as he chooses to make them his own by accepting them.
Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state.
Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.
The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.
Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are.
The self has the characteristic that it is an object to itself, and that characteristic distinguishes it from other objects and from the body.