Identity Quote by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Download Open image ““THE AUTOTELIC SELF: A SUMMARY”” — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Identity
“As individuality develops and blossoms incrementally, and it becomes fully expressed; that is the Absolute state of the Self (parmatma).” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one… — David Antin Copy Share Image
The autonomous individual, striving to realize himself and prove his worth, has created all that is great in literature, art, music, science and technology.… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“Victor Frankl: By declaring that man is responsible and must actualize the potential meaning of his life, I wish to stress that the true… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
The true self is always in motion like music, a river of life, changing, moving, failing, suffering, learning, shining. — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
“The One who attains the awareness that, 'This is not my inherent nature;' He constantly has the awareness of the Self and the non-Self!” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“When the self is not engaged in apprehending objects it becomes aware of itself.” — W.T. Stace Copy Share Image
A self is, by its very essence, a being with a past. One must look lengthwise backwards in the stream of time in order… — Josiah Royce Copy Share Image
“We need to think of the self as a continuum, a steady story over time. The mind is always searching for similarities, associations, repetitions,… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“It is the body that possesses itself: Owning something means to be able to control it, and selfhood is intimately related to the very… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
“Maslow notes that the self-actualized person has a strong desire for privacy; vehemently resists enculturation, but always has a feshness of appreciation; and has… — Wayne W. Dyer Copy Share Image
“THE SELF IS THE ROOT of the mental poisons. Our mind fabricates, projects, and attaches concepts to people and things. Egocentric fixation reinforces the… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
“Entropy is the normal state of consciousness—a condition that is neither useful nor enjoyable. To avoid this condition, people are naturally eager to fill… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Most enjoyable activities are not natural; they demand an effort that initially one is reluctant to make. But once the interaction starts to provide… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
People without an internalized symbolic system can all too easily become captives of the media. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Through learning we grow, becoming more than we were before, and in that sense learning is unselfish, because it results in the transformation of… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately, many people find the only challenges they can respond to are violence, gambling, random sex, or drugs. Some of these experiences can be… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
It is essential to learn to enjoy life. It really does not make sense to go through the motions of existence if one does… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
“It is usual to explain the motivation of those who enjoy dangerous activities as some sort of pathological need: they are trying to exorcise… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
“Wisdom and integrity cannot be found in any single domain. A broader viewpoint that breaks across disciplinary boundaries is needed, a way of understanding… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
For better or worse, our future will be determined in large part by our dreams and by the struggle to make them real. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Many business leaders today view their jobs as entailing responsibility for the welfare of the wider community. These individuals do not define themselves as… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
The rules themselves are clear enough, and within everyone’s reach. But many forces, both within ourselves and in the environment, stand in the way.… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
When each of these three elements of vision-concern for excellence, for people and for the wider environment-are present, business is transformed from a tool… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
I don't doubt that straight white men have identity issues and identity complexes and struggle with defining themselves. — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
In the hearing world, I'm constantly having to lip-read and trying to understand what's going on. Sign language is so beautiful. It gives you… — Rose Ayling-Ellis Copy Share Image
I think the next 50 years are going to present the human race with challenges that so far exceed the limitations of geopolitical boundaries… — Zachary Quinto Copy Share Image
You have expressive nationalism, I mean very identity driven, which shaped each other a lot of that in the Middle East. — Subrahmanyam Jaishankar Copy Share Image
I think everybody, or the great majority of human beings, have this aspiration to become other: to live a different identity, at least for… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
The language we share is at the core of our identity as citizens, and our ticket to full participation in American political life. We… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
Tell me how much a nation knows about its own language, and I will tell you how much that nation knows about its own… — John Ciardi 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
“In the worldly life, due to maadakta (intoxication of the ego of ‘I am Chandubhai’), one has completely lost awareness of everything about one’s… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“At the moment, then, of Man’s victory over Nature, we find the whole human race subjected to some individual men, and those individuals subjected… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
She might be without country, without nation, but inside her there was still a being that could exist and be free, that could simply… — Sharon Maas Copy Share Image
