The ego is entranced by ... names and ideas... However names and concepts only block your perception of this Great Oneness. Therefore… — Laozi Copy Share Image
“It's only when we are out in the wild - with nothing on our schedules and nowhere to escape to - do… — Nimish Dayalu Copy Share Image
Self-negation is noble, self-culture beneficent, self-possession is manly, but to the truly great and inspiring soul they are poor and tame compared… — Pope Julius II Copy Share Image
[We need to ] select immigrants based on their likelihood of success in U.S. society and their ability to be financially self-… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Washington was a man of exceptional, almost excessive self-command, rarely permitting himself any show of discouragement or despair. — David McCullough Copy Share Image
I've never seen anyone more messed up over success than Richard Pryor. For him, it's a constant battle between success in the… — Paul Mooney Copy Share Image
To injure another person through atonement is one of the most subtle devices of the neurotic, as when, for example, he indulges… — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
I believe that simple, consistent shifts in our thinking and actions can lead to the miraculous in all aspects of our daily… — Gabrielle Bernstein Copy Share Image
“When I went on anyway, my body began to grow cold, and I thought I was dead. Face pale, my dead self… — Ryū Murakami Copy Share Image
To a great extent the achievements of invention, of mechanical and of artistic creation, must of necessity, and rightly, be individual rather… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Are psychiatric crises so overwhelming to the mind that they inhibit the presence of ethics? Is depression at root an amoral phenomenon,… — Lauren Slater Copy Share Image
For the sake of my children and grandchildren, I hope that the human talent for self-destruction can be successfully controlled, or at… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
The other night I searched (the Web) for 'self-transforming elf machines.' There were 36 hits! It surprised me. I sort of use… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The ego is not a thing but a subtle effort, and you cannot use effort to get rid of effort - you… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
Slavery results from laws, laws are made by governments, and, therefore people can only be freed from slavery by the abolition of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Two people have been living in you all your life. One is the ego, garrulous, demanding, hysterical, calculating - the other is… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Races didn't bother the Americans. They were something a lot better than any race. They were a People. They were the first… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
I think that may be the biggest difference between Americans and people elsewhere. Unlike Americans, Canadians know that there are places just… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
The productive sender is the outer world, the external reality including our own body. The receiver is our deep self, the conscious… — Albert Hofmann Copy Share Image
Love is as simple as the absence of self- given to another. God, when invited, fills the void of any unrequited love;… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
From a self-conscious standpoint, it's hard to see myself on a screen in a way that isn't just me playing music or… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
Readers should aspire to what is excellent. They should refuse to read a substitute Bible. They should want a Bible that calls… — Leland Ryken Copy Share Image
When I feel something very intensely or deeply or personally, I can go to extremes of self-expression or self-analysis by writing a… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
“It is considered ignorance of the Self (ignorance of I am the soul) where intoxication (that “I Know”, “I am something”) increases.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Presumption is our natural and original malady. The most vulnerable and frail of all creatures is man, and at the same time… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
power can be thought of as the never-ending, self-feeding motor of all political action that corresponds to the legendary unending accumulation of… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
I've got to do something to make up for all those self-absorbed and selfish years when I just, you know, was taking… — Elton John Copy Share Image
My own view, for what it's worth, is that sexuality is lovely, there cannot be too much of it, it is self-limiting… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
“Why has the path shown by the Vitraag Lords (The Enlightened Ones) stopped? Why has vitraag path stopped? It is because one… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Find your purpose and fling your life out to it. Find a way or make one. Try with all your might. Self-made… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
The mathematical fraternity is a little like a self-perpetuating priesthood. The mathematicians of today teach the mathematicians of tomorrow and, in effect,… — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
That which is good for all and any one, For whomsoever- that is good for me. . . What I hold good… — Zoroaster Copy Share Image
However great the work that God may achieve by an individual, he must not indulge in self-satisfaction. He ought rather to be… — St. Vincent Copy Share Image
[ New York ] is a place that worships incompetence particularly if it's combined with energy and paranoid self-confidence. Only in a… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Surrounded by the self -sufficiency of American culture, we can convince ourselves that we have what it takes to achieve something great. — David Platt Copy Share Image
Society imposes an identity on you because of the way you look. Your struggle as a self has to do with an… — Vijay Seshadri Copy Share Image
A sort of egotistical self-evaluation is unavoidable in those joys in which erudition and art mingle and in which aesthetic pleasure may… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“It's easy to see the faults of others But hard to see one's own. One sifts out the faults of others like… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Take some quiet time & think about what you do & why! Being self aware is a necessary tool for success, personal & professional. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The force that drives the green fuse, as Dylan Thomas said, cannot be understood. So self-discovery is to accept your daily meditation,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
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