“cosmic consciousness. Here, you realize total detachment from the self and realize that you are nothing but consciousness. In this state, you… — Sarah Rowland Copy Share Image
Teaching a practice can also be a hindrance if it becomes one's identity. To be a spiritual teacher is a temporary function.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Mundane humans create distinctions between themselves, distinctions that seem ridiculous to any Shadowhunter. Their distinctions are based on race, religion, national identity,… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I grew up having great awareness of who I was in regards to racial identity and socio-economic status. This caused me great… — Sho Baraka Copy Share Image
“We should write because it is human nature to write. Writing claims our world. It makes it directly and specifically our own.… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
The man of Self-realization knows a bliss that cannot be compared to anything in this world. His joy is independent of any… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
My therapist shared a theory she had come across, and I liked it. It held that before making your next journey in… — Melissa Gilbert Copy Share Image
“I was free with every road as my home. No limitations and no commitments. But then summer passed and winter came and… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“As human beings, identity and self image are fused into the way we move and hold ourselves. Because even if we are… — Jane Hardjono Copy Share Image
“A self-made man" - not of woman born but alchemized, through sheer force of will, by the man himself. This is what… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
When are we left-wingers going to learn that we are losing the cultural and political battle with conservatives because we are fractured… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
All our lives we fought against exalting the individual, against the elevation of the single person, and long ago we were over… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
“Without somebody to watch me, laugh at my jokes, tell me what to do, ask me questions, race me to the river,… — Michael Dorris Copy Share Image
As soon as the dialogue between two people touches on something fundamental, essential, numinous, and a certain rapport is felt, it gives… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“Each of us is several, is many, is a profusion of selves. So that the self who disdains his surroundings is not… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Being half-Jamaican, half-Chinese in a very white area, it created a real identity crisis for me as a kid. But I'd travel… — Griff Copy Share Image
My childhood proved to me that there could be no enjoyment of football without community. But it becomes difficult when this community… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I had learned to dwell with pleasure as a beloved daydream on the thought of the separation of these elements. If each… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Other’s authority, other’s enjoyments, other’s space; people have become the masters of that which does not belong to the Self. If they… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
If you are wasting time and energy trying to be as much like everyone else as you can, you are throwing away… — Bethenny Frankel Copy Share Image
“People lose their powers (siddhi) by nagging; therefore know ‘as it is’. Know all these relations as being worldly (laukik, of the… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Existentialist philosophy recognizes the existence of the individual as the real purpose of human life. The recognition is basically atheistic and it… — Goparaju Ramachandra Rao Copy Share Image
“For if one is partly insane, one is also, juridically, partly sane, and if one is partly sane one is at least… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
“Let go of your constant strife to sustain and assert the idea of who you are. It is this massive effort of… — Franco Santoro Copy Share Image
Let's face it: the present self is present. It's in control. It's in power right now. It has these strong, heroic arms… — Daniel Goldstein Copy Share Image
“You are a man of extreme passion, a hungry man not quiet sure where his appetite lies, a deeply frustrated man striving… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
You create your life through the inner power of your being, whose source is within you and yet beyond the selves that… — Jane Roberts Copy Share Image
“No one can play a game alone. One cannot be human by oneself. There is no selfhood where there is no community.… — James P. Carse Copy Share Image
I'm you and you are me. I'm a man and you're a man. When people understand the more they know Self, the… — Rakim Copy Share Image
It's been very jarring for me to stand in public and read about myself and my daughter and her father. I feel… — Jill Talbot Copy Share Image
“I drive a beat-up Mercury Cougar, with the windows down and the music up. I seek my identity in toughness - but… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
When we cultivate mystical awareness or transcendent identity - which is a natural outgrowth of meditation and other practices - what happens… — James Redfield Copy Share Image
When all mental activity around who you think you are or what you need for happiness is stopped, there is a crack… — Gangaji Copy Share Image
“It doesn't really matter what a person decides to do, or how radically a person plays with gender. What matters, I think,… — Kate Bornstein Copy Share Image
“A human being is spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is the self? The self is a… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
When I was a child, we always had wine on the table, no matter how simple the meal. The wine had no… — Jacques Pepin Copy Share Image
“ I Am! I am—yet what I am none cares or knows; My friends forsake me like a memory lost: I am… — John Clare Copy Share Image
I have devoted 30 years of research to how creative people live and work, to make more understandable the mysterious process by… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Self-acceptance comes from meeting life's challenges vigorously. Don't numb yourself to your trials and difficulties, nor build mental walls to exclude pain… — Goswami Kriyananda Copy Share Image
Self-determination has to mean that the leader is your individual gut, and heart, and mind or we're talking about power, again, and… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
