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- Life is invisible. The illusion is that what we perceive is in some way not a reflection of self. Life reflects the field of attention…
- Most people are not in the world of awe and wonder. They're in the world of deadness. Their perceptual fields and bodies are completely self-reflective,…
- In our world, in our pre-World War III condition, meditation is considered a cult activity and people who practice self-discovery are actually persecuted and ridiculed.
- In the dead world of the Western mind all that is seen are shades of gray. There's a cloud over every experience. There's no possibility…
- Happiness comes from self-knowledge. Self-knowledge means that you have understood your mind. Your mind is the whole universe.
- Love is the only rule in self-discovery. If you've forgotten that rule, you've forgotten everything. It's not what you can get; it's what you can…
- Love is self-realization. Love is liberation. The only way beyond time, to unravel the knot of existence, is to love.
- It is is easy to smile. It is an act of self-giving. When you smile you are at your best and you give that best…
- Happiness is self-generated as the mind becomes still. As we become involved with the desires of the world, we lose that centering, that stillness.
- In the Zen of sports and athletics, we seek to bring discipline and control into our physical movements, but at the same time to eliminate…
- You can hit a home run. If you are honest, you'll know when it's perfect because at that critical moment of connection, there was no…
- The emptiness of play is when there is no self present. There is no one playing - there is only play itself taking place, perfect…
- If you have the sense of participation in sports or athletics, of being a player, then you are not really into the Zen mind. In…
- Your ego interferes, your sense of self. When you let go of the mind, the Frisbee will take its own path.
- The best martial artist doesn't win fights, but avoids fights. Martial arts is a way of gaining basic self-mastery of your mind, body and emotions.…
- Self-realization is the last game on earth worth playing.
- There's a different film being made in every mind. And of course, the star of the film is the mind, the personality, the self.
- You've got to make a person aware of how miserable they really are and show them how happy they can be. Otherwise, why should they…
- As a human being you are capable of a higher level of perception than you may now be cognizant of. You are not really who…
- Take the level of dedication that anyone had to get to the top in any field, and apply it to self-discovery. Except that when you…
- You are not a singular self. You are a corporation. Inside you is eternity. A human being is not so simple.
- You have thousands of selves inside you. Meditation is a process of peeling back the layers of the self. We start with peeling back the…
- Self-acceptance is involved in this process. You have got to be able to look at both your dark and your light side and not get…
- There is a certain degree of pain to be experienced in the search for self-knowledge, as there is a certain amount of joy. You just…
- People who are involved in self-discovery lead different types of lives. The lives they lead are not necessarily the lives of renunciation. Rather, it is…
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- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation. — Arthur Ashe
- Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. — Isaac Asimov
- Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self. — Francis of Assisi
- That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it… — Mary Astell
- Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity. — Nancy Astor
- It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us… — David Attenborough
- Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up. — Dean Acheson
- A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower… — Marcus Aurelius
- What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken! — Jane Austen
- We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves,… — Paul Auster