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

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

At one point in my life you’ll have my best but not my whole.

When I stopped loving, I lost purpose; When I stopped loving myself, I lost myself.

To drive free, to love free, to court destruction with taunts. One brief house of madness and joy!

To be always what I am – and so changed from what I was.

Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.

I have a strong sense of self, but that’s not a negative thing.

You can mark in desire the rising of the tide, as the appetite more and more invades the personality, appealing, as it does, not merely to the sensory side of the self, but to its ideal components as well.

One has to develop attachment to Self.

In terms of days and moments lived, you’ll never again be as young as you are right now, so spend this day, the youth of your future, in a way that deflects regret. Invest in yourself. Have some fun. Do something important. Love somebody extra. In one sense, you’re just a kid, but a kid...

TeenagerMe—a teenager? If she suddenly stood, here, now, before me, would I need to treat her as near and dear, although she’s strange to me, and distant? Shed a tear, kiss her brow for the simple reason that we share a birthdate? So many dissimilarities between us that only the bones are likely still the...

As the sun, revealer of all objects to the seer, is not harmed by the sinful eye, nor by the impurities of the objects it gazes on, so the one Self, dwelling in all, is not touched by the evils of the world. (The Upanishads: Breath of the Eternal, pg. 35)

None of us just pop into the world fully formed, so it’s the little facts that make us.

Why do people often feel bad in good environments and good in bad environments? Why did Mother Teresa think that affluent Westerners often seemed poorer than the Calcutta poor, the poorest of the poor? The paradox comes to pass because the impoverishments and enrichments of a self in a world are not necessarily the same...

I make me. At 18, I decided I wasn’t going to have an unconstructed self ever. I was going to be the composer, the designer, the architect of me. It’s been really fun.

There were times when it seemed the different parts of him where not all under the same management.

The process of reclaiming the self is one of reconciliation with meaning.

En natt i lengst forsvundne tider våknet mennesket og så seg selv… da dyrene kom til sine vannhull, hvor han ventet dem av gammel vane, da kjente han ikke lenger tigerspranget i sitt blod, men en stor salme om lidelsens broderskap mellom alt som lever.

Am I in love? – yes, since I am waiting. The other one never waits. Sometimes I want to play the part of the one who doesn’t wait; I try to busy myself elsewhere, to arrive late; but I always lose at this game. Whatever I do, I find myself there, with nothing to do,...

Life is a valuable and unique opportunityto discover who you are.But it seems as soon as you nearanswering that age-old question,something unexpected always happensto alter your course.And who it is you thought you weresuddenly changes.Then comes the frustrating realizationthat no matter how long life endures,no matter how many experiencesare muddled through in this existence,you may...

I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them.

Certainly, if he still has himself, a man of understanding has lost nothing.

I don’t judge people. It blurs out the center of my attention,my focus, myself.

A shadow is never created in darkness. It is born of light. We can be blind to it and blinded by it. Our shadow asks us to look at what we don’t want to see. If we refuse to face our shadow, it will project itself on someone else so we have no choice but...

That is what we are, what we do: nose a net, push push, a net that never exists. The knots in the mesh as strong as our own believing. Our own fears.

We don’t have to take our personality so personally.

Once upon a time, began the story of you.Many perilous, wonderful, harrowing, brilliant, delightful, profound things happened.And yet—the most exciting twists and best turns are yet to come. And it absolutely does not matter how old or young you are.Like a bright carpet of wonders, enjoy the unrolling of your story.

A fine glass vase goes from treasure to trash, the moment it is broken. Fortunately, something else happens to you and me. Pick up your pieces. Then, help me gather mine.

Sometimes, being true to yourself means changing your mind. Self changes, and you follow.

Most of us have nicknames—annoying, endearing, embarrassing.But what about your true name?It is not necessarily your given name. But it is the one to which you are most eager to respond when called.Ever wonder why?Your true name has the secret power to call you.

Feelings are something you have; not something you are.

I wish I wasn’t an imperial highness or an ex-grand duchess. I’m sick of people doing things to me because of what I am. Girl-in-white-dress. Short-one-with-fringe. Daughter-of-the-tsar. Child-of-the-ex-tyrant. I want people to look and see me, Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova, not the caboose on a train of grand duchesses. Someday, I promise myself, no one will...

YOU are the creator of your experience, therefore: all problems must be met within YOU.

What is life to Spirit, is death to the ego.

What Althusser does… is to rethink the concept of ideology in terms of Lacan’s ‘imaginary’. For the relation of an individual subject to society as a whole in Althusser’s theory is rather like the relation of the small child to his or her mirror-image in Lacan’s. In both cases, the human subject is supplied with...

After bearing the consequences of a mistake, the person either becomes a better person or completely succumbs to the atrocity.

Leave if you must. But leave when you are strong, not weak. Leaving should be a choice and not the only option.

When you say ‘I want to be an inspiring leader,’ the operative phrase is ‘I want.’ This is inherently me-centered and self serving whether or not you recognise it. What you are really saying is ‘I want to get people to do what I would like them to.’ Perhaps they don’t want to do that....

Ged had neither lost nor won but, naming the shadow of his death with his own name, had made himself whole: a man: who, knowing his whole true self, cannot be used or possessed by any power other than himself, and whose life therefore is lived for life’s sake and never in the service of...

…All who ever died, live; they are reborn and have no end, nor will there ever be an end. All, save you. For you would not have death. You lost death, you lost life, in order to save yourself. Yourself! Your immortal self! What is it? Who are you?””I am myself. My body will not...

I had no place to go and after that we sort of self-destructed, … We probably shouldn’t have been there to begin with. At the start, my Tundra was driving away from everybody and I was just riding.

Gli trasmettevano un senso profondo di odio, forse perché erano così alieni da pregiudicare in lui qualsiasi percezione reale della loro sostanza.

The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.

inherited by the world,interconnected by the youth;Mind,Body,Spirit.Believe in it

There are often beams in our eye that we know not of. Let us therefore ask that our eye may become single, for then we ourselves shall become wholly single.

We are spiritual children of God the Father. We preach it. We sing it. But do we really understand it? Sometimes it’s easy to tell others they are loved, but not so easy to believe it of ourselves — not because we don’t think God loves His children, but because we may feel undeserving of...

No good can come from beating ourselves up for falling down—for feeling unhappy when we want to feel just the opposite.

Exactly. So when I ask you, ‘What are you?’ you can honestly say, ‘I am a child of God because I came from God.

Self sufficiency is an extremely unusual phenomenon nowadays.