The only chains God wants us to wear are the chains of righteousness--not the chains of hopeless subjectivism, not the shackles of… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
Without struggle, there is no progress. There has to be struggle in your life. You have to grow in experience to control… — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
The distance runner is mysteriously reconciling the separations of body and mind, of pain and pleasure, of the conscious and the unconscious.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The character truest to itself becomes eccentric rather than immovably centered, as Emerson defined the noble character of the hero. At the… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
I particularly scorn my fondness for paradox. I despise pessimism, narcissism, solipsism, truculence, word-play, and pusillanimity, my chiefer inclinations; loathe self-loathers ergo… — John Barth Copy Share Image
Intuitive guidance means having the self-esteem to recognize that the discomfort or confusion that a person feels is actually directing him to… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
To the vast majority of people a photograph is an image of something within their direct experience: a more-or-less factual reality. It… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
Salvakalpa samadhi is absorption in eternity to the point where there is no real concept of self but there's still a karmic… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In Canada, when we speak of water, we're speaking of ourselves. Canadians are known to be unextravagant, and one explanation of this… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“All Jains believed in one thing; what is worth worshipping? The answer is the right belief (samkit). There are endless reincarnations to… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
How soon country people forget. When they fall in love with a city it is forever, and it is like forever. As… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly -- that is what each of us is here for. People… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Liberals have created, and the minority leadership has exploited, a community of dependent people, unaware of the true route to prosperity and… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Gandhi rejects the Adam Smith notion of human nature as motivated by self-interest and brute needs and returns us to our spiritual… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Daughters could survive a powerful mother, but boys found it almost impossible. Such boys were often severely damaged and spent the rest… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
The most notorious swindler has not assumed so many names as self-love, nor is so much ashamed of his own. She calls… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
In a true community we will not choose our companions, for our choices are so often limited by self-serving motives. Instead, our… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Do not fear the enemy, for your enemy can only take your life. It is far better that you fear the media,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Some have speculated that the way [Albert] Camus died made his theories on absurdity a self-fulfilling prophecy. Others would say it was… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
The first law that ever God gave to man was a law of pure obedience; it was a commandment naked and simple,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The real goal of a spiritual tradition should not be ascent, but openness, vulnerability, and this does not require great experiences but,… — Morris Berman Copy Share Image
Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was… — John Keats Copy Share Image
A true spiritual practitioner is someone who has discovered that it is possible to be at ease in the world for no… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Self-production: the characteristic of living systems to continuously renew themselves and to regulate this process in such a way that the integrity… — Margaret J. Wheatley Copy Share Image
Never value anything as profitable to thyself which shall compel thee to break thy promise, to lose thy self-respect, to hate any… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Graha (things getting accumulated) are not to be reduced. Parigraha, murchha-bhaav (being swooned by material objects or by living beings) needs to… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The hardest period in life is one’s twenties. It’s a shame because you’re your most gorgeous, and you’re physically in peak condition.… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
There is no magic. Harry Potter was probably the last one. There are no Harry Potters in politics. There are people who… — Dora Bakoyannis Copy Share Image
Women of worth are those who want positive change for themselves, their families, community or society, which I think is important. For… — Sonam Kapoor Copy Share Image
My sense is that we may not need the language of innateness or genetics to understand that we are all ethically bound… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
“He often acted out of impulse just so that he could then devote his leisure hours to mulling why; he relished self-analysis,… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
Sheldon Vanauken wrote that the strongest argument for Christianity is Christians, when they are drawing life from God. The strongest argument against… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
Buddhism doesn't really have much time for political mass-movements. We are so trained to think of politics in terms of acting collectively,… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Rather do what is nothing to the purpose than be idle; that the devil may find thee doing. The bird that sits… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
To speak about this universal force that will lead us beyond on the last horizon of our known self toward a wiser,… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
The most famous self-made man in the world today is our own Edison. Talk with Mr. Edison and he will tell you… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Jesus’ example of fidelity to prayer challenges us to examine the time and effort we devote to our own prayer. While prayer… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
What good does it do to have all the riches of the world and all the world's pleasures? They will all disappear… — Rama Swami Copy Share Image
The New Testament writers I think conceive of their inspired Scripture writings as flushing out, bringing to articulation, expounding and so on… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
Love is about bottomless empathy, born out of the heart’s revelation that another person is every bit as real as you are.… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
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