Freedom Quote by Idries Shah

“...afflictions arise from identifying with a false sense of self, whereas great contentment arises from seeing the true nature of things. If one believes…

— Karma Lekshe Tsomo

“In measured doses, mortification cleanses the soul. It's the perfect antidote for excessive self-regard.”

— Andrew J. Bacevich

There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling…

— James Russell Lowell

“The truly self-possessed, however, are free from the whims of fate and chance. Calmly, they affect their will, and with strength of character and…

— James Allen

“Self-conceit is a sentiment entirely incompatible with genuine sorrow, and it is so firmly engrafted on human nature that even the most profound sorrow…

— Leo Tolstoy

And so on, until you arrive at the other side, among the purely abstract self-harming: the grinding over your failures, the refusal to remember…

— Alexander Masters

“Because the exposure of self to self lies at the heart of neurotic shame, escape from the self is necessary. The escape from self…

— John Bradshaw

When I ask people to contemplate selflessness, the sometimes react as if I've asked them to put their house on the market or give…

— Sakyong Mipham

The path of self-purification is hard and steep. One has to become absolutely passion-free in thought, speech and action to rise above the opposing…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Mortification is the soul's vigorous opposition to self, wherein sincerity is most evident.

— John Owen

Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.

— Aesop

Once, in a dry season, I wrote in large letters across two pages of a notebook that innocence ends when one is stripped of…

— Joan Didion