The characteristic property of hallucinogens, to suspend the boundaries between the experiencing self and the outer world in an ecstatic, emotional experience,… — Albert Hofmann Copy Share Image
Some writing is a really nice solitary process, in a way, because you can be a little self-conscious around other people. If… — Marketa Irglova Copy Share Image
We have a habit of turning to scientists when we want factual answers and artists when we want entertainment, but where are… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
“The 'pure' (shuddha) state is on the opposite shore to the 'auspicious-inauspicious' (shubha-ashubha)state. There is no 'sense of doership' (kartabhaav) there. If… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Self-confidence is not the same thing as ego. This is not to say that the two don’t (frequently) dance hand in hand… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
At times it seems as if arranging to have no commitment of any kind to anyone would be a special freedom. But… — John D. MacDonald Copy Share Image
“When we look at a tree, we do not see the tree for what it really is. We see how it appears… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
The farther we get from God, the more the world spirals out of control. My heart aches for America and its deceived… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Long before Einstein told us that matter is energy, Machiavelli and Hobbes and other modern political philosophers defined man as a lump… — George Will Copy Share Image
“Addictions are just symptoms of underlying issues, and in my view Nikki self-medicated the emotional pain of his childhood, and being away… — Nikki Sixx Copy Share Image
With the rise of capitalism, it became more obvious that people pursue individual self-interest. The great nationalist in Italy, Giuseppe Mazzini, a… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
I have always loved and avidly read the novels of Jack London, Jules Verne and Ernest Hemingway. The characters depicted in their… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.I would not attack the… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
It is true, Monsieur," Raoule went on, shrugging her shoulders, "that I have had lovers in my life as I have books… — Rachilde Copy Share Image
Amongst the learned the lawyers claim first place, the most self-satisfied class of people, as they roll their rock of Sisyphus and… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
Only God is love, and for this love to be fully realized self must step aside. And not only do we not… — Bernadette Roberts Copy Share Image
Books that children read but once are of scant service to them; those that have really helped to warm our imaginations and… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Tell me how a person judges his or her self-esteem, and I will tell you how that person operates at work, in… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
“One's liberation begins once he does the darshan of kashaya-free (absence of inner anger, pride, deceit and greed) Gnani purush [the enlightened… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Some people think they can find satisfaction in good food, fine clothes, lively music, and sexual pleasure. However, when they have all… — Liezi Copy Share Image
The libertarian view is that human actors are self-owners and these self-owners are capable of appropriating unowned scarce resources by Lockean homesteading… — Stephan Kinsella Copy Share Image
We are morphing as we go through things, and then we're presented with the notion of a soul. A soul implies more… — Mike Cahill Copy Share Image
Most comedians want to be the architect of their own embarrassment. They have horrible self-esteem issues. I would rather push myself into… — Mike Myers Copy Share Image
“What is considered moksha of the Vitraags [the enlightened ones]? It is where despite having a physical body, pain does not touch… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Greater in battle than the man who would conquer a thousand-thousand men, is he who would conquer just one — himself. Better… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The saying "no self, no problem" probably comes from Zen. In their cultures, where Buddhism is kind of taken for granted, as… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
Bathsheba loved Troy in the way that only self-reliant women love when they abandon their self-reliance. When a strong woman recklessly throws… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Affliction hardens and discourages us because, like a red hot iron, it stamps the soul to its very depths with the scorn,… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Don't wait for some miracle to be performed on you from without, lifting you above your fears and doubts and self-centeredness. You… — E. Stanley Jones Copy Share Image
The first (lesson) which we meet again and again in history, is that once the dole or similar relief programs are introduced,… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“The practice of self-observation mirrors the way in which a mother observes and attunes to her baby. Self-observation is a method of… — Philippa Perry Copy Share Image
And finally - he was neither able nor willing to prevent it - the self-loathing dammed up inside him spilled over and… — Patrick Süskind Copy Share Image
It is not merely the brevity by which the haiku isolates a particular group of phenomena from all the rest; nor its… — Reginald Horace Blyth Copy Share Image
You do not need to be fixed. You are not broken. You have never been broken. You are not in parts. These… — Marcus Thomas Copy Share Image
It is the profoundest of cosmic ironies. The divine power, our true spiritual essence, does not achieve perfection until it hits the… — Lon Milo DuQuette Copy Share Image
A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificiant by and by. The Alps and the glaciers together are… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“What is saiyam? It is a state in which One remains unaffected by the effects of both, upsarga (externally induced suffering) and parishaha… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Man is not merely the sum of his masks. Behind the shifting face of personality is a hard nugget of self, a… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
What is important is to keep our mind high in the world of true understanding, and returning to the world of our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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