Mortification is the soul's vigorous opposition to self, wherein sincerity is most evident.
The greatest enemy one ever faces is one's own self.
It is a campaign not for abundance but for austerity. It is a campaign not for more freedom but for less. Strangest of all, it is a campaign not just against other people, but against ourselves.
I can know what Brian Cage is doing before he's doing it because he's doing me. I've been facing the man in the mirror my entire life. That's been my hardest battle is the one where it's me versus me.
Destiny is consciousness of oneself, but consciousness of oneself as an enemy.
The bad man is continually at war with, and in opposition to, himself.
No man could look upon another as his enemy, unless he first became his own enemy.
The only true opponent of PSG is PSG.
The nature of mind is that it loves everything once it loves itself, just as it opposes everything when it opposes itself.
We are sure to be losers when we argue with ourselves; it is a civil war, and in all such contentions, triumphs are defeats.
