Religion is hard work. Its insights are not self-evident and have to be cultivated in the same way as an appreciation of… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Which God has sent us all / thecreator of the world, often people say / think of others before themselves understood later,… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
“The kashays (inner anger, pride, deceit and greed) that keep one entrenched in the coolness of the worldly life are the very… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Without a vision people and the church become self-centered. People start finding fault with one another and the church self-destructs. — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Some books and authors are best sellers, but most aren't. It may be easier to self-publish than it is to traditionally publish,… — Amanda Hocking Copy Share Image
Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We need to elect leaders who understand that leadership is about loving and serving people, not about self-advancement. — Tavis Smiley Copy Share Image
“When one realizes that, 'The Soul is a non-doer,' then one is considered as having attained the right belief of 'I am… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
But I realized something. About art. And psychiatry. They're both self-perpetuating systems. Like religion. All three of them promise you a sense… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
This civil action is another case of a tragedy that has become all too familiar in the music industry: a business manager… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in the form itself, so I always feel like I've never been good at going ahead with the… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
Comedy is deemed inferior to tragedy primarily because of the social prevalence of narcissistic pathology. In other words people who are too… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Greed for enlightenment and immortality is no different than greed for material wealth. It is self-centered and dualistic, and thus an obstacle… — Laozi Copy Share Image
These people are often authoritarian and rigid in their views, exerting power over others in an effort to keep others from having… — David Emerald Womeldorff Copy Share Image
Buddhism holds that everything is in constant flux. Thus the question is whether we are to accept change passively and be swept… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
“They who have no central purpose in their life fall an easy prey to petty worries, fears, troubles, and self-pityings, all of… — James Allen Copy Share Image
You're re-accessing your natural energy, your natural information, your knowledge of yourself, of your sacred self. — Christine McCormick Day Copy Share Image
A token of ecological awareness in a society devoted to self destruction and waste but unwilling to acknowledge its indulgent ways. — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Get hold of the main thing: That the world and the self are one and perfect. Only your attitude is faulty and… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
As a holistic being you shatter the illusion of your separateness and reveal your connection to everything. This empowers you in a… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Self-discipline leads to higher spiritual states only if practiced with under- standing. The clearer the goal, the greater the result. — Ming-Dao Deng Copy Share Image
“A ‘Gnani’’ (Enlightened one) is also in ‘prakruti’ (relative self, made of inherent traits). However, the one who remains separate despite staying… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“The difference between self love and being in love with yourself is that one results in giving and the other in taking.” — Jeffrey Fry Copy Share Image
[Heresy is] the dislocation of a complete and self-supporting scheme by the introduction of a novel denial of some essential part therein. — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Your true self can never be found within anyone else, and it cannot be found in the hardships that life has thrust… — Kat Von D Copy Share Image
I do think [Barack Obama's] strategy for re-election is so misguided. He's counting on the Republicans to self-destruct, and they might, you… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
It would come as quite a shock to my younger self that my first job was modelling. I was scouted, aged 18,… — Sara Cox Copy Share Image
When you encounter some problems, if you point your finger at yourself and not at others, this gives you control over yourself… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Self-awareness gives you the capacity to learn from your mastakes as well as your successes. It enables you to keep growing. — Author Name Copy Share Image
But when the Holy Spirit controls our lives, he will produce this kind of fruit in us: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness,… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
I love doing stand-up. It's so self-contained - you go there, you do it, you go home - but with telly, there… — Jo Brand Copy Share Image
We completely deny the existence of a self-existent I, or a permanent, independent soul. Every aspect of your body and mind is… — Thubten Yeshe Copy Share Image
I always stayed in tune with my own ambitions and attitudes and I'm still my intractable old self, for better or worse. — LeRoy Neiman Copy Share Image
What is enquiry into the Truth? It is the firm conviction that the Self is real, and all, other than That, is… — Adi Shankara Copy Share Image
There is no way of steering successfully between a failed situation and a failed self except by stopping and taking our bearings. — Jo Coudert Copy Share Image
In perseverance, in self command, in forethought, in all virtues which conduce to success in life, the Scots have never been surpassed. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
I don't buy into the dystopian scenarios of self-aware robots enslaving mankind, but you don't have to be a sci-fi conspiracy theorist… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
The odd thing, my dear," said her father, "is that once one has ceased trying to protect self, one finds one's self… — Donita K. Paul Copy Share Image
While our sin reaches far, God's grace reaches farther. God came after us not to strip away our freedom but to strip… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
There is so much truth in children and so little self-consciousness. It always strikes me that they are so capable of losing… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image