Silence embeds thoughts better than speeches. If you are afraid of silence, you are afraid of your thoughts.

We always imagine some future self that won’t ever get pissed off — that’ll always go to bed on time, always brush our teeth, always enjoy mind-blowing sex with our spouse on Tuesday night. And...

Who are you?’I didn’t understand the question.I’m Uri’, he said. ‘What’s your name?’I gave him my name. ‘Stopthief.

What you see, say, think, and believe about yourself affects your feelings, decisions, and actions.

Sometimes you need to take a break from everyone and spend time alone, to experience, appreciate and love yourself.

The self is hateful.” But “I” is passable. (“Le moi est haïssable”. – Mais le Je est passable.)

We are just a certain quantity of cells, all of us!

In real life, you just work for the ordinary self, but in the front of audience you become the superself. That’s a completely different thing.

Roses are RED.Violence is BLUE.Suger is SWEET.But not like YOU.

But now the other half of “us” was gone and, lying there in my shadowy room, I’d be struck with this realization that I had no clue how to be just me again.

It’s kind of depressing, if you think about it. I mean, me being so young, and yet so cynical and suspicious.

Though we rush ahead to save our time, we are only what we feel

The self was both its origins and its journey.

Intelligent, thinking people could take things like this in their stride, just as they took the larger absurdities of deadly dull jobs in the city and deadly dull homes in the suburbs. Economic circumstances might...

I’ll be honest with you. I’m a little bit of a loner. It’s been a big part of my maturing process to learn to allow people to support me. I tend to be very self-reliant...

Dare to be different. Dare to accept yourself for who YOU are. Dare to live your life without limits. Dare to follow YOUR dreams. Dare to explore, experience, and make mistakes. Dare to live your...

Why is erasing desire seen as so important? If the subjugation of the self is the point of the self what’s the point in having a self? It’s like someone handing you a leaflet which...

The family watched It’s a Wonderful Life, which is a very beautiful movie and all I could think was why didn’t they make a movie about uncle Billy?…Because he was a drunk and fat and...

Though I think and speak of greater becoming, I, too, am an infinite work in progress.

It is not enough just to believe in Christ. We have to believe that He believes in us so we can believe in ourselves. That’s a sentence that deserves a re-read.

He (Anwar Sadat) records that he was almost loathe to leave his prison cell because it was there that he realized that real success is success with self. It’s not in having things, but in...

You know that smell, when you put your nose up to a pine tree?” I told her I did perfectly. “No matter how long it has been, you always will. Like you are storing a...

Because the fact of not being understood by other people had become my only real source of pride, I was never confronted by any impulse to express things and to make others understand something that...

Well, I’m an Episcopalian priest who struggles with a little self-medication problem, and I have a 23-year-old son who’s gay, and a 16-year-old daughter who’s caught dealing pot.

I don’t know what understanding myself is. I don’t look inside.I don’t believe I exist behind myself.

Write it on your heart you are the most beautiful soul of the Universe. Realize it, honor it and celebrate the life.

I said just let me try one more time and she said, “THAT’S ENOUGH, ISABEL,” again, and she could just say it over and over and it would never get through my thick skull because...

In my experience, self-hatred is the dominant malaise crippling Christians and stifling their growth in the Holy Spirit.

We define our identity always in dialogue with, sometimes in struggle against, the things our significant others want to see in us. Even after we outgrow some of these others—our parents, for instance—and they disappear...

I have found that a writer is formed not so much by their experiences but by the way in which they view and capture those experiences. Like vivid, rainbow metallic skin cells on the wings...

What would you say to yourself if you could actually meet a younger you?

Self is what makes mind think, but never needs the mind. Self is what makes bodies live, but needs no existence for itself. Self can be realized; not by knowledge but by revelation.

I won’t explain why. If you’re interesting, you’ll find out who I am. One clue, I’m a ghost.

Master Yourself and you master your environment! Such is the nature of wisdom.

You are still what you think, despite what others think about you!

Cultivate the understanding that the self is not really an independently existing entity, and begin to view self instead in terms of it’s dependent relation to others. Although it is difficult to say that merely...

And I Said To My Soul, Be LoudMadden me back to an afternoonI carry in menot like a woundbut like a will against a woundGive me again enough manto be the childchoosing my own annihilationsTo...

…he allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them them over...

Ah, it’s my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me!

At some point, it’s time to stop fighting with death, my thighs and the way things are. And to realize that emotional eating in nothing but bolting from multiple versions of the above: the obsession...

Self love and forgiveness is a liberation.

I wanted to stay… me.

The truth remains itself, even the human minds cannot see it.

One may escape from the prisons of experience, ideology or philosophy, but it is impossible to escape from the reality of one’s innermost self. Understanding this, I had freed myself from nostalgia, and having done...

self awareness is self created birth. after that it is unstoppable.

I suspected once that any human life, however intricate and full it might be, consisted in reality of one moment: the moment when a man knows for all time who he is.

As far as you can avoid it, do not give grief to anyone. Never inflict your rage on another. If you hope for eternal rest, feel the pain yourself; but don’t hurt others.

The idea that there is a sharp boundary between our true inner selves and the outside world is pervasive but highly questionable. The boundaries of the self might well be more porous than we ordinarily...

the abyss you stare into and that stares back at you is your reflection in the mirror – we all have it – that shadow self – that dark heart…

Your expectation of something unique and dramatic, of some wonderful explosion, is merely hindering and delaying your Self Realization. You are not to expect an explosion, for the explosion has already happened – at the...