The truth is that we are a part of God. God could not have created anything except out of his own consciousness.… — Goswami Kriyananda Copy Share Image
Me: I'm feeling quite good today Body: How? You're fat Self Harm: How? I'm on your arm as proof your not Mirror:… — She's_gone Copy Share Image
According to the Buddha, the failure to recognize the illusion of the self is the source of all ignorance and unhappiness. It… — Neel Burton Copy Share Image
“Bondage of worldly life cannot tie us down; such is the knowledge of Vitrag (Enlightened One). Our ‘Self’ is such that it… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
In contrast to the asexual chasteness of official communist art , Nazi art is both prurient and idealizing. A utopian aesthetics (physical… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Always the rationalization is the same-"Once this situation is remedied, then I will be happy." But it never works that way in… — Phillip Moffitt Copy Share Image
“He cements his existence in an echo of time, but the journey demands him to change. He cannot see; his identity is… — RJ Blizzard Copy Share Image
One of the many, many things I hate about war is how it trivializes the personal. The big themes, the broad sweep,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The furies are at home in the mirror; it is their address. Even the clearest water, if deep enough can drown. Never… — R. S. Thomas Copy Share Image
If you could map out a human brain, an open question is, if you simulated it, would it be you? Now, as… — Edward Boyden Copy Share Image
“Each person has a self-image that, to some degree, does not match reality. A significant difference between self-image and reality can be… — Robert H. Bolton and Dorothy Grover Bolton Copy Share Image
...[Changers] were a threat to identity, a challenge to the individualism even of those they were never likely to impersonate. It had… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I seem to have been able to make a career out of doing what I feel like doing, so why not keep… — Jane Campion Copy Share Image
“For example, only some members of a hunting society have the experience of losing their weapons and being forced to fight a… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
Actualization of self cannot be sought as a goal in its own right. . . . Rather, it seems to be a… — Sidney Jourard Copy Share Image
“You see, I have come to believe in self-help, individual initiative, the love of what you do, and the full development of… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
“Boy or girl? I had never thought about that. The men who work at the palace, they use words to govern the… — Da Xia Copy Share Image
There are three conditions which often look alike Yet differ completely, flourish in the same hedgerow: Attachment to self and to things… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The subconscious mind is actively maneuvering in the background to select the activities that will move you closest to the reality that… — Kevin Michel Copy Share Image
“Identity is gradual, cumulative; because there is no need for it to manifest itself, it shows itself intermittently, the way a star… — Sergio Chejfec Copy Share Image
The person who gives up his individual self and becomes an automaton, identical with millions of other automatons around him, need not… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Every single one of the major world faiths, whether we're talking about Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Darwinism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, have all… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“How frequently do you look in the mirror? Does your face please you? Are you disgusted to detect familial features? Do you… — Wayne Koestenbaum Copy Share Image
“The middle-class standard of the independent self has increasingly become the default American standard for how to think, feel and act in… — Susan T. Fiske Copy Share Image
“By the end of the evening I was like a man, terribly in love with her face and body, which promised so… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
Your beloved and your friends were once strangers. Somehow at a particular time, they came from the distance toward your life. Their… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
“the participants in the public debate risk being driven less by reasoned arguments than by what catches the mood of the moment.… — Henry Kissinger Copy Share Image
Your body is the ground metaphor of your life, the expression of your existence... So many of us are not in our… — Gabrielle Roth Copy Share Image
“These outward identities we build for ourselves are not all that we are. A person is made of so many layers. Skin… — Emily P. Freeman Copy Share Image
Immensity is always there, but we so often become numb to it, or deceive ourselves into thinking our own lives and selves… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
“People are not two-thirds one thing and the remainder something else. Temperament, personality, or outlook don’t divide quite like that. The bits… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
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“What is a self-image? Who started talking about one? I rather fancy it was Madison Avenue. Picture Satan in a business suit,… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“The essential Not-self could be perceived very clearly in things and in living creatures on the hither side of good and evil.… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Today, every principle of identity is affected by fashion, precisely because of its potential to revert all forms to non-origin and recurrence.… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
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“In those moments of moving through the streets with people who share one's beliefs comes the rare and magical possibility of a… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
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