Oneself Quote by Irvin D. Yalom Download Open image “One comprehends oneself in order not to be preoccupied with oneself.” — Irvin D. Yalom ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Oneself Order
To understand oneself requires patience, tolerant awareness; the self is a book of many volumes which you cannot read in a day, but when… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
You can talk yourself out of doing something if you start to think about, "How would this person see it, or that person see… — Kalup Linzy Copy Share Image
Self-reliance leads to intellectual independence. Each man must think for himself, must train the mind to think, must habituate the soul to observe and… — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
“The belief in an independently existent self is a mistaken perception with serious consequences, for all afflictions are rooted in a fundamental misconception about… — Karma Lekshe Tsomo Copy Share Image
A person is able to understand only when he solves the problem by himself. — Peter Deunov Copy Share Image
I do not comprehend all that I am. Is the mind, therefore, too limited to possess itself? — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
One has to become absolutely responsible for oneself, and then one can understand the mind. If you go on depending on others, your very… — Osho Copy Share Image
“Everyone knows what attention is. It is taking possession of the mind, in clear and vivid form, of one out of what seems several… — William James Copy Share Image
“In situations where I feel unclear or I do not know what to say or do, I turn my attention within myself. Then I… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in… — Hans-Georg Gadamer Copy Share Image
“When the self is not engaged in apprehending objects it becomes aware of itself.” — W.T. Stace Copy Share Image
“ALAS, IF ALL HUMANS WERE WISE AND HAD MORE GOOD WILL THE WORLD WOULD BE A PARADISE NOW IT IS MOSTLY A HELL” — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another. — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
Therapists need to have a long experience in personal therapy to see what it's like to be on the other side of the couch… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“Beginning therapists must learn that there are times to sit in silence, sometimes in silent communion, sometimes simply while waiting for patients' thoughts to… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
If one is to learn to live with the dead, one must first learn to live with the living! — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms. The drive for power is not uncommonly motivated by… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“Exactly. We know that the great Goethe carried a copy of Spinoza’s Ethics in his pocket for a year. Imagine that—an entire year! And… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
Absolute power, as we have always known, corrupts absolutely; it corrupts because it does not do the trick for the individual. Reality always creeps… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“Indeed, the capacity to tolerate uncertainty is a prerequisite for the profession. Though the public may believe that therapists guide patients systematically and sure-handedly… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
To refer even in passing to unpublished or struggling authors and their problems is to put oneself at some risk, so I will say… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The self is defined psychologically as the psychic totality of the individual. Anything that a [person] postulates as being a greater totality than [oneself]… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
One should identify oneself with the universe itself. Everything that is less than the universe is subjected to suffering. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
But if you will recall the history of our civil troubles, you will see half the nation bathe itself, out of piety, in the… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Consider the core of the mind to be a wagon, with will-power to be carried about in it. Push it to a place where… — Takuan Soho Copy Share Image
Poems come from ordinary experiences and objects, I think. Out of memory - a dress I lent my daughter on her way back to… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
