“Now I am experiencing the Clear Light of objective reality. Nothing is happening, nothing ever has happened or ever will happen. My… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Individuality is vitally important. When people start to lose their individuality is when I believe they start to lose themselves. I think… — Brittany Murphy Copy Share Image
“I had no time to make a world of my own. I had to stay fixed, like Atlas, my feet on the… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“The will to power, the force of desire, appears as an insensitive urge to dominate. But several points in Nietzsche’s work speak… — Karmen MacKendrick Copy Share Image
“Yes,” some objectors declare, “I would like to expand my consciousness, but I feel that I must do it for myself.” To… — Marcia Moore Copy Share Image
My journey of self-discovery and self-acknowledgement began in my hometown of Los Angeles and has taken me through two state high school… — Jason Collins Copy Share Image
From the psychological point of view, the self-asserting emotions, derived from emergency reactions, involve a narrowing of consciousness; the participatory emotions an… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
I felt, implicitly, or not so implicitly, that subjects about women and other races were out of my jurisdiction as a creator.… — James Franco Copy Share Image
Ultimate Warrior was a character who made an impression on people. It was his intensity, his colorfulness, but also, Warrior as an… — The Ultimate Warrior Copy Share Image
A person who makes full use of and exploits his talents, potentialities, and capacities. Such a person seems to be fulfilling himself… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
“Some 2,600 years ago the ancient Greek poet Pindar wrote, “Become who you are by learning who you are.” What he meant… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
As a woman who doesn't necessarily fit the beauty standard in Hollywood... I really related to the narrative of looking for something… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
It's Not Going To Be Easy, It Never Has Been For Anybody, But If You Learn To See That As A Chance… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
“we all make vows, Jimmy. And there is something very beautiful and touching and noble about wanting good impulses to be permanent… — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
When desire for a certain person's attention becomes an "I have to have" kind of grasping, then identity gets organized around needing… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
“From The Twelve Enlightenments Observe your own body. It breathes. You breathe when you are asleep, when you are no longer conscious… — Ilchi Lee Copy Share Image
The integrative tendencies of the individual operate through the mechanisms of empathy, sympathy, projection, introjection, identification, worship- all of which make him… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
“The self who is undone in the encounter with the abyss, that is, the preabyssal self, lives with a misguided consciousness. Without… — An Yountae Copy Share Image
“A theory in the flesh means one where the physical realities of our lives- our skin color, the land or concrete we… — Michelle Cliff Copy Share Image
“At eighteen, she already looks like a woman of sorrows and as her breaths start becoming shorter, tired of looking over her… — Kunal Sen Copy Share Image
When committees gather, each member is necessarily an actor, uncontrollably acting out the part of himself, reading the lines that identify him,… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Positive self-esteem operates as, in effect, the immune system of the consciousness, providing resistance, strength, and a capacity for regeneration. When self-esteem… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
“...we have to be aware of the power and importance of organizing not just around identity, but the materiality of daily life,… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
“There is a marvelous ambiguity to the ego: on the one hand it is an ordinary part of the world, one of… — Robert Sokolowski Copy Share Image
Over the years, I've interviewed thousands of people, most of them women, and I would say that the root of every dysfunction… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
“If we really want to know, who we are and recognize our identity, we have to find out the identity of the… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
I've changed my music from time to time so I'm hoping that I can completely change my life from time to time,… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
“During this time, I proved to myself that I was as good as other authors who had achieved the same stature. But… — Colette Baron Reid Copy Share Image
“...Identity arises spontaneously out of our bodies and minds, and spontaneously evolves in name, meaning, structure, and appearance. All of these spontaneously… — Zenju Earthlyn Manuel Copy Share Image
“The fruit of the intent of serving others (sevabhaav) is worldly happiness, and the fruit of the intent of disserving others (kusevabhaav)… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
At every moment you choose yourself. But do you choose *your* self? Body and soul contain a thousand possibilities out of which… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
“Even wondered about the difference? Autobiography: The usually self-serving accounts of personal accomplishments by a public figure. Memoir: The usually self-serving accounts… — Raul Ramos y Sanchez Copy Share Image
I shall write a book some day about the appropriateness of names. Geoffrey Chaucer has a ribald ring, as is proper and… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“The precious … uniqueness which the human individual claims is conferred on him not by possession of an immortal soul but by possession of… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
Power is a central issue in social and personal transformation. Our sources and uses of power set our boundaries, give form to… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
Everyone makes a difference. Someone who does something for others makes a big and good difference. A person who has no self-interest… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the words of the late Francis Crick...You, your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
Surrender all thought, emotion, and circumstance to that which is bigger and deeper. Surrender your identity. Surrender your suffering to that which… — Gangaji Copy Share Image
“And so perhaps it was entirely possible - common, even - for you to look into the eyes of someone you'd been… — R.F. Kuang Copy Share Image
“They cleared swiftly, dramatically, like a stage set or a movie; we went from black to stunning blue, the day emerging at… — Lauren Slater Copy Share Image