In the egoic state, your sense of self, your identity, is derived from your thinking mind - in other words, what your… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Do not chase boys. Chasing boys is bad. Chasing boys can lead to horrible things like mansions going up into flames, hand… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
“Badness is of the self, the one, the you or me on our oddy knockies, and that self is made by old… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Gender assignment is a "construction" and yet many genderqueer and trans people refuse those assignments in part or in full. That refusal… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
“The flight away from self to God is not a "forgetting self" in the sense that man thereby loses himself. Rather, in… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
“There comes a stage, whether in meditation or in the ordinary daily experience of life, at which he has to cross over… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
Retirement savings is probably behavioral economists' greatest success story. It is a prototypical behavioral-economics problem because saving for retirement is cognitively hard… — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
Aikido is not merely about fighting and the development of the physical self but the perfection of the spiritual man at the… — Steven Seagal Copy Share Image
The mystical nature of American consumption accounts for its joylessness. We spend a great deal of time in stores, but if we… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
For people sometimes believed that it was safer to live with complaints, was necessary to cooperate with grief, was all right to… — Toni Cade Bambara Copy Share Image
Self-mastery is a challenge for every individual. Only we can control our appetites and passions. Self-mastery cannot be bought by money or… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
It is certain that, because the negligent do not struggle against self, they never achieve peace of soul or do so tardily,… — Saint Ignatius Copy Share Image
What happens when we begin to praise our own abilities? And this is not focusing on an inflated ego, but on appreciation… — John Templeton Copy Share Image
“...The discrepancy is that the ethical self should be found immanently in the despair, that the individual won himself by persisting in… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Are you aware that your spirit needs to be fed? Did you know that your spirit would be delighted to partake in… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
“There are two kinds of Soul: One is what people believed to be in the worldly interaction (Worldly Soul). It is the… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Self-doubt is common, but when it impedes you from attaining your goals it’s time to take action. This book shows you how… — Lois P Frankel Copy Share Image
The tendencies of the times favor the idea of self-government, and leave the individual, for all code, to the rewards and penalties… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
[In the moment of reading writer and reader] are both briefly their best selves, or at least better selves. A flawed human… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
When someone becomes transparent, then something shines through that person that has nothing to do with the person or any of his… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The higher nature in man always seeks for something which transcends itself and yet is its deepest truth; which claims all its… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
If love closes, the self contracts and hardens: the mind having nothing else to occupy its attention and give it that change… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
Love is the movement within life that carries us, that enables us, that causes us to break out of what Alan Watts… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
The bourgeois treasures nothing more highly than the self… And so at the cost of intensity he achieves his own preservation andsecurity.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The experience of not forgetting consciousness alone is the state of devotion which is the relationship of unfading real love, because the… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
If you deny yourself access to the child within because you're too serious, you also block your connection to the divine Light… — Stuart Wilde Copy Share Image
I do realize, however, while striving to be your true self to the level I do, there will be pushback, resistance, and… — Joanna Lohman Copy Share Image
Erasmus dramatizes a well-established political position: that of the fool who claims license to criticize all and sundry without reprisal, since his… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
(RE: Sexual Behavior in the Human Female- Kinsey) Kinsey's evidence suggested that women were less sexually active than men in all aspects… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The result of observing only the universe is anxiety. Only observing the Observer of the universe will put a stop to a… — Douglas Harding Copy Share Image
I'm not only my spirit buy my body, and who can decide how much I, my individual self, am conditioned by the… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
New Age values are conscious evolution, a non-sectarian society, a non-military culture, global sharing, healing the environment, sustainable economies, self-determinat ion, social… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
The psychological peer pressure that the left has employed - and deployed, actually - on young people has been overwhelmingly successful. It… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I just think that whole culture of hatred, and also feeling like it's your right to judge people when you don't know… — Alexa Chung Copy Share Image
It is not what we do that matters, but what a sovereign God chooses to do through us. God doesn't want our… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
When you sit quietly and let go of every false self-definition , of everything you think you know about who you are,… — Erich Schiffmann Copy Share Image
The position of the Atheist is a clear and reasonable one. I know nothing about ‘God’ and therefore I do not believe… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Any single man must judge for himself whether circumstances warrant obedience or resistance to the commands of the civil magistrate; we are… — John Locke Copy Share Image
A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the highest virtues of a good citizen, but it is not… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I do lots of other drugs but I smoke pot maybe 5-10 times a year now. I used to smoke it all… — David Cross Copy Share Image
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