Christianity in the West, opens up a perspective of depth into what it means to be a self. And that depth of… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
Much of your pain is self-chosen. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Therefore… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“As long as one does not have Knowledge of the Self, his renunciation (tyaag) will give result. And after attaining the Knowledge of the Self, there… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The bigness of the world is redemption. Despair compresses you into a small space, and a depression is literally a hollow in… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
I came to realize that I was always looking for myself in the women I loved. I looked at their lovely, clean… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
What’s the point of opening yourself up to your friends if they don’t notice you in your vulnerable state? The point of… — Esther Earl Copy Share Image
Lift up your eyes upon This day breaking for you. Give birth again To the dream. Women, children, men, Take it into… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
In general, it can be said that no contemplative life is possible without ascetic self-discipline. One must learn to survive without the… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“When you’re sick and dying, the ego is and should be the first thing to go. I know there’re gurus who teach… — J.R. Rain Copy Share Image
When you are insulted by someone or humiliated, guard against angry thoughts, lest they arouse a feeling of irritation, and so cut… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
A tree is a self: it is 'unseen shaping' more than it is leaves or bark, roots or cellulose or fruit ...… — Brian Swimme Copy Share Image
It has often been argued that absolute scepticism is self-contradictory; but this is a mistake: and even if it were not so,… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
Whenever I allow anything but tenderness and compassion to dictate my response to life--be it self-righteous anger, moralizing, defensiveness, the pressing need… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
I think that there is a tragic misfit at the core of me, and I've just done a lot of work on… — Jenna Fischer Copy Share Image
“No effort is needed for each and every thing to revert back to its inherent natural state. Effort is required to take… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The people we call the prophets I think are the earliest dissident intellectuals, and they're treated like most dissident intellectuals - very… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
My fullest concentration of energy is available to me only when I integrate all the parts of who I am, openly, allowing… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Men insist that they don't mind women succeeding so long as they retain their "femininity". Yet the qualities that men consider "feminine"… — Elizabeth Gould Davis Copy Share Image
Self-pity is the worst poverty. When a person says, 'I am...' with pity, before he has said anything more he has diminished… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
“What is the nature of the worldly life (sansar)? God lives in every living being of the world, that means if you… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Prior to the advent of the civilization of the Third Estate (mercantilism, capitalism), the social ethics that was religiously sanctioned in the… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
Authentic love is obviously something good... When we love, we become most fully ourselves, most fully human... People often think they are… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The one human quality that must be developed is self discipline for success. The will power to force yourself to do what… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
“The ego is your enemy, not your friend. It is the ego that gives you wounds and hurts you. It is the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is part of me that longs to have the back-to-the-earth life - make my own bread, grow my own wheat, just… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
Marylou was watching Dean as she had watched him clear across the country and back, out of the corner of her eye--with… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Science’ will destroy Difference of opinion. Full blessed state of the self (Complete Samadhi) prevails through the ‘science’, continuous blessed state of… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
But somewhere within each of us, buried at varying depths depending on the age and degree of neglect or abuse, shame or… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I'm a bit of a weird creature... I'm self taught and went to a regular film school, not art school, and I… — Don Hertzfeldt Copy Share Image
It's all about self-discipline. Like, self-obsession is connected completely with self-loathing, and it's the same with, if you've got a weight problem.… — Richey Edwards Copy Share Image
Lee saw the fireball and head through the roar in his ears Hester saying, "That's the last of 'em Lee." He said,… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Ironically, often the thing that keeps me from experiencing joy is my preoccupation with self. The very selfishness that keeps me from… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
“Alas, the social science shows something different and more nuanced. We human beings talk to ourselves all the time—so much, in fact,… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
“There is no means other than Vitaraag Vignan (Science that leads to the absolute state free of attachment-abhorrence) that can give Moksha… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
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How can we know ourselves by ourselves? . . . Soul needs intimate connection, not only to individuate, but simply to live.… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
I made a career goals list for 2017 and it's so funny. I have low self-esteem or something, so I put both… — Jen Kirkman Copy Share Image
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The culture in which you parent, mentor, or educate boys exhorts them to be individualistic and group-oriented at once, but does not… — Michael Gurian Copy Share Image
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![“Whenever I allow anything but tenderness and compassion to dictate my response to life--be it self-righteous anger, moralizing, defensiveness, the pressing need to change others...I am alienated from my true self. My identity as Abba's child [a child of God] becomes ambiguous, tentative and confused” quote by Brennan Manning](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/dbb/brennan-manning-959_ambiguous_whenever-i-allow-anything-but-tenderness_2805528.png)
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