To define yourself is to limit yourself (quotes)

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  • To define is to limit. Oscar Wilde
  • Don’t let others define you. Michael Josephson
  • Any definition which limits us is deplorable. Edward Albee
  • The only way to define your limits is by going beyond them. Arthur C. Clarke
  • He who defines himself can’t know who he really is. Tao Te Ching
  • Let your former selves teach you, but never limit or define you. Yasmin Mogahed
  • The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition. Elliot W. Eisner
  • Whenever you define who you are, you limit yourself to what you may potentially be. Ralph Smart
  • Never define yourself, and you will see that everything everywhere is an extension of yourself.  Adyshanti
  • To define yourself is to limit yourself. Without labels you remain the infinite being. Deepak Chopra
  • You must not let anyone define your limits because of where you come from. Your only limit is your soul. Walt Disney
  • To define knowledge as merely empirical is to limit one’s ability to know; it enfeebles one’s ability to feel and think. Wendell Berry
  • No limit, no definition, may restrict the range or depth of the human spirit’s passage into its own secrets or the world’s. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Each “this” or “that”, each definition, each label, is a limitation and a block to true Self-Awareness which is unlimited, independent, forever free, continuous, and beyond doubt. Jonathon Kalman
  • Self is like the sky and the labels and definitions are like the clouds. The clouds, although they arise in the sky, never effect the sky. Jonathon Kalman
  • When you define yourself, you limit yourself.  Expand your self-identity to include everyone and everything and you come closer to the reality that is.  Anthony Lambert
  • Consciousness is the ground of all being; everything is consciousness. Beyond that, definition is impossible because any way we may attempt to define it would limit consciousness. Ricky Ray
  • …the descriptions we agree upon define the limits of the real world. What we call reality is only one way of seeing the world, a way that is supported by social consensus. Carlos Castaneda
  • When you sit quietly and let go of every false self-definition , of everything you think you know about who you are, and then be what’s left, what remains is the untarnished presence of who you’ve always been and still really are. Erich Schiffmann
  • Not being limited by any definition or label (“this” or “that”), the true Self is ever free. When Consciousness/Awareness/Self recognizes itself, this is the supreme happiness. Jonathon Kalman
  • Remove the heavy clothing of your self-definition. You are not woman, you are not American, you are not son, you are not spiritual seeker, executive, teacher, unemployed, you are not wounded, you are not highly respected, you are not productive, you are not blah-blah-blah-blah. Jan Frazier
  • To define is to limit, to set boundaries, to compare and to contrast, and for this reason, the universe, the all, seems to defy definition….Just as no one in his senses would look for the morning news in a dictionary, no one should use speaking and thinking to find out what cannot be spoken or thought. Alan Watts
  • When we start defining “who we are”, we not only create a box with a boundary identifying ourselves but also, implicitly and perhaps unknowingly, we also end up defining who we are NOT. Ken Wilber

 

 

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