Most perfect self-understanding is the capability to directly (immediately) transcend dilemma, all problems, all seeking. — Adi Da Copy Share Image
Can it then be that what we call the 'self' is fluid and elastic? It evolves, strikes a different balance with every… — Wayne Muller Copy Share Image
“Through steadiness in the Self (sthirata), Conduct as the Self (Charitra) manifests and through awakened awareness (jagruti), the level of understanding (Darshan)… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
That is the ego which rises and sinks periodically. But you exist always. That which lies beyond the ego is consciousness -… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Just be what you are. And I try to be my best self and be what I am and knowing what I… — Coretta Scott King Copy Share Image
In the hall of mirrors, you are everywhere. Which is the real you? Find your original Self, the one who perceives all… — Alberto Villoldo Copy Share Image
Every time you have a major breakthrough in self-knowledge, and see the way the divine works within your own psyche, external events,… — Thomas Keating Copy Share Image
Imagine that it’s not about the self and its concerns, about ‘what’s in it for me,’ whether that be a blessed afterlife… — Marcus Borg Copy Share Image
“We must picture hell as a state where everyone is perpetually concerned about his own dignity and advancement, where everyone has a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes you write and you find yourself almost wondering how it will turn out. I don't think every writer sort of almost… — J. P. Donleavy Copy Share Image
Writers and painters have a medium that can foster self-effacements. Actors haven't. An actor can't hide himself behind paper or canvas. If… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
“You know that smell, when you put your nose up to a pine tree?" I told her I did perfectly. "No matter… — Ramona Ausubel Copy Share Image
How many times have I failed before? How many times have I stood here like this, in front of my own image,… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
“Self-love is the most important love to have. When we love ourselves we’re much happier and need less from others. There can… — Darryl Duke Copy Share Image
There is a certain degree of pain to be experienced in the search for self-knowledge, as there is a certain amount of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Own the room. Confidence has nothing to do with what you look like. If you obsess over that, you'll end up being… — Marian Seldes Copy Share Image
You have to have a thick enough skin to cope with the criticism. I'm very self-critical and I have a lot of… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
It is hardly possible to suspect another without having in one's self the seeds of baseness the party is accused of. — Stanisław I Leszczyński Copy Share Image
Poetry, and the principle of Self, of which money is the visible incarnation, are the God and the Mammon of the world. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
A sharp sense of the ironic can be the equivalent of the faith that moves mountains. Far more quicky than reason or… — Moss Hart Copy Share Image
Every time feels like my first time. And I just find that the process of it feeds into one's own self-obsession. — Ben Harper Copy Share Image
What men call friendship is only social intercourse, an exchange of favours and good offices; it comes down to a commercial dealing… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
We can enjoy a self-assurance that doesn't depend on the state of things outside ourselves, be it downturns or booms or whatever. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Dumbing down takes many forms: art that is good for you, museums that flatter you, universities that increase your self-esteem. Culture, after… — Denis Dutton Copy Share Image
Through self-knowledge you begin to find out what is God, what is truth, what is that state which is timeless. In self-knowledge… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
So, what, you got cigarette burns, too?" Gitanes said. Chip showed his palm, "It's nothing." "Self-inflicted. You pathetic American." "Different kind of… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
I was an artist, but not a self-proclaimed great artist, just a common man who was working in a form of art… — Jack Kirby Copy Share Image
What is incarnation? Incarnation is self-reflection. The universe that we are in is constructed, is a reflection of ourselves. We picked the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I have moments where I miss my old self. But I think anyone can get caught up in what we used to… — Steve Gleason Copy Share Image
The key to a successful career is realizing that it's not separate from the rest of your life, but is rather an… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Even if we are spared destruction by war, our lives will have to change if we want to save life from self-destruction. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
A remarkable memoir that's packed with anecdotes, advice and humor, all while maintaining a high level of dignity and self-awareness. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
We bear our shades about us; self-deprived Of other screen, the thin umbrella spread, And range an Indian waste without a tree. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Of all the featherless beasts, only man, chained by his self-imposed slavery to the clock, denies the elemental fire and proceeds as… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I no longer have time for unnecessary drama. I wasted so much time scared, self-conscious and insecure. Life is too short to… — Daryl Hannah Copy Share Image
There is no second, or higher self to search for. You are the highest self, only give up the false ideas you… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
“[M]y discovering my own identity doesn't mean that I work it out in isolation, but that I negotiate it through dialogue, partly… — Charles Taylor Copy Share Image
Man is dragged hither and thither, at one moment by the blind instincts of the forest, at the next by the strange… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
“ Why are you lying awake, thinking that you’re a terrible person? To keep my mind occupied when I can’t sleep. Some… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
“Go searching for your own tribe! And at no time conceal or camouflage your true self. You never know who may be… — Karl Wiggins Copy Share Image
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