“Buy or borrow self-improvement books, but don't read them. Stack them around your bedroom and use them as places to rest bowls… — SARK Copy Share Image
i learned that predators don't intentionally choose the weak or old or sick. they kill what they can, which means the slow… — Craig Clevenger Copy Share Image
I guess each of us, at some time, finds one person with whom we are compelled towards absolute honesty, one person whose… — Glen Cook Copy Share Image
Almsgiving, according to the Gospel, is not mere philanthropy; rather it is a concrete expression of charity, a theological virtue that demands… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
You came here with something to do. You are part of a universal consciousness, and there are no accidents in it. In… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
The disowned parts of ourselves are what get in the way of us having the relationships we long for, the careers we… — Shakti Gawain Copy Share Image
So if I were talking to a young writer, I would recommend the cultivation of extreme indifference to both praise and blame… — John Berryman Copy Share Image
You may study with the highest teachers, but you will find no one but yourself teaching you. You may travel the world… — Bo Lozoff Copy Share Image
Everybody is bound by some social rules. But I think that artists need some kind of freedom to explore their minds and… — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
Bad religion is arrogant, self-righteous, dogmatic and intolerant. And so is bad science. But unlike religious fundamentalists, scientific fundamentalists do not realize… — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
Maybe stalking the woods is as vital to the human condition as playing music or putting words to paper. Maybe hunting has… — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
If we live a self-directed, self-motivated, self-centered life, always needing to get our own way, then we're going to be miserable. In… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
I must learn that the purpose of my life belongs to God, not me. God is using me from His great personal… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
O may I join the choir invisible of those immortal dead who live again in minds made better by their presence; live… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Life is never boring but some people choose to be bored. The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
“The self may be royal, but it hungers like a pauper. [...] And it is a king imperilled, a sovereign forever at… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I wake up and play a different person every day. Playing all these different characters and trying to figure out who your… — Eliza Dushku Copy Share Image
Robert Scott Leyse channels Baudelaire's Queen of Spades and Jack of Hearts, speaking darkly of dead loves, in this new book. He… — Kris Saknussemm Copy Share Image
There are as many reasons for running as there are days in the year, years in my life. But mostly I run… — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
All your experiences, all your meditations, all your prayer, all that you do, is self-centred. It is strengthening the self, adding momentum,… — U.G. Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I suddenly realized. The zebra. It is not something outside of us. The zebra is something inside of us. Our fears. Our… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
“Bhaav (intent) created through agnan (knowledge with ignorance of the True Self) has to be filtered through Gnan (Knowledge of the True… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The gears of poverty, ignorance, hopelessness and low self-esteem interact to create a kind of perpetual failure machine that grinds down dreams… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Actualization of self cannot be sought as a goal in its own right. . . . Rather, it seems to be a… — Sidney Jourard Copy Share Image
I was creative before I started meditating, but I had, looking back, a weakness. I wasn't self-assured. I had a little bit… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
“If You [the Self] remain as the Knower-Seer of all the kriya (activities of the mind-speech-body), then all the activities are in… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“You see, I have come to believe in self-help, individual initiative, the love of what you do, and the full development of… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
If becoming your most extraordinary self doesn't inspire you, if claiming your greatness doesn't get you moving in the morning, if you… — Debbie Ford Copy Share Image
“... the proper self-knowledge and self-love of every created thing is ipso facto a participation in the knowledge and love of God.… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
It behooves our citizens to be on their guard, to be firm in their principles, and full of confidence in themselves. We… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
If we do have realistic confidence ... if we feel secure within ourselves, we tend to experience the world as open to… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
The person who gives up his individual self and becomes an automaton, identical with millions of other automatons around him, need not… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“Identity is gradual, cumulative; because there is no need for it to manifest itself, it shows itself intermittently, the way a star… — Sergio Chejfec Copy Share Image
What's curious about the left's current obsession with Timothy McVeigh is that it proves that - despite a frantic search for 15… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
The Ottoman Empire . . . The rulers in Turkey were fortunately so corrupt that they left people alone pretty much -… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There are three conditions which often look alike Yet differ completely, flourish in the same hedgerow: Attachment to self and to things… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We humans are born egocentric. The sky thunders and children believe that God is mad at them for something they've done -… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
Governments may change, and opinions, and the very appearance of lands themselves, but the slowest thing to change is religion. What has… — Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth Copy Share Image
According to the Buddha, the failure to recognize the illusion of the self is the source of all ignorance and unhappiness. It… — Neel Burton Copy Share Image
Bill Clinton was not a symbol. People did not invest in him their idea of what America should be or, worse, their… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
![“The self may be royal, but it hungers like a pauper. [...] And it is a king imperilled, a sovereign forever at the mercy of many insurgents, of fear, for example, and anxiety, of isolation and bewilderment, of a strange unspeakable pride and a wild, silent shame. The self is beset by secrets…” quote by Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d4f/salman-rushdie-153_identity_the-self-may-be-royal-but-it-hungers-lik_2134390.jpg)
![“Bhaav (intent) created through agnan (knowledge with ignorance of the True Self) has to be filtered through Gnan (Knowledge of the True Self). Each word will have to be filtered, only then will the [spiritual] work be accomplished.” quote by Dada Bhagwan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/03c/dada-bhagwan-31_gnan_bhaav-intent-created-through-agnan-knowl_2601049.jpg)
![“If You [the Self] remain as the Knower-Seer of all the kriya (activities of the mind-speech-body), then all the activities are in the form of galan (discharge). Bad habits and good habits are all in fact in the form of discharge.” quote by Dada Bhagwan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2fa/dada-bhagwan-31_bad-habit_if-you-the-self-remain-as-the-knower-see_278003.jpg)
