There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character.

I figure the more people think I’m just mildly weird, the less likely they are to know how weird I really am.

Most of the tools from medieval times were extensions of the physical self. Tools are now extensions of the mental self.

Remember yourself. Deep inside, you have an observer, a constant neutral witness to your posture, gesture, facial expression, breathing, taste, impressions of light and sound. Don’t leap to interpret. Just be there and observe.

I think the self is complicated, that at various times we are all various people, and wrestling actually does a lot with that. You have things like heel turns where a person goes from being...

I always stayed in tune with my own ambitions and attitudes and I’m still my intractable old self, for better or worse.

A fuller expression of Self comes from the journey for greater wholeness.

The philosophical I is not the man, not the human body or the human soul of which psychology treats, but the metaphysical subject, the limit – not a part of the world.

As he watched Joe stand, blazing, on the fire escape, Sammy felt an ache in his chest that turned out to be, as so often occurs when memory and desire conjoin with a transient effect...

We always see the worst in our selves. Our most volnerable selves. We need someone to get close enough to tell us that we’re wrong. Someone we trust.

Boomers always struck me as very self-centered and self-important, because there are so many of us. We’re always in the middle of the next fun moment at some everlasting party, and we’re not able to...

Late, by myself, in the boat of myself,no light and no land anywhere,cloudcover thick. I try to stayjust above the surface, yet I’m already underand living within the ocean.

When you have passion, you don’t need coffee.

Stop focusing on your past mistakes. Don’t be ashamed of the things that you’ve done. We ALL have made mistakes. Don’t you see? All of those things helped shape you into the beautiful person that...

If you celebrate your differentness, the world will, too. It believes exactly what you tell it—through the words you use to describe yourself, the actions you take to care for yourself, and the choices you...

Divide the constant tide and random noisiness of energetic flow, with conscious recurring moments of empty mind, solitude, gratitude and deep…slow…breathing. Of this, the natural law of self-preservation demands.

A journey through nature is always a road that leads to self-discovery.

You get olderand you are a whole mess of things,new thoughts, sorry feelings,big plans, enormous doubts,goling along hoping and getting disappointed,over and over again,no wonder I don’t recognizemy little crayon picture.It appears to be meand...

To be me is to be different…

Believe in yourself and everything will change

Clearly in an era in which most athletic departments are told to be self-sufficient, they should look more like the way a business is structured.

We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn. It’s absurd. We run the risk of warping what’s best in...

If they want me to have mysticism, okay, I’ve got it.I’m a mystic, but only in my body,My soul is simple and doesn’t think.

For at some point, each of us will be asked to embody what we feel and know.

I really wanted to take her photo, so I walked up to the nearest adult and asked, ‘Does she belong to you?’ Suddenly the music stopped, and I heard: ‘I belong to myself!

Live in the wisdom of accepted tenderness. Tenderness awakens within the security of knowing we are thoroughly and sincerely liked by someone…Scripture suggests that the essence of the divine nature is compassion and that the...

Without unreservedly surrendering myself to God, whatever place I might raise myself to remains nothing more than a step or possibly two off the hard basement floor of life, for of myself I can be...

No self is of itself alone. It has a long chain of intellectual ancestors. The “I” is chained to ancestry by many factors… This is not mere allegory, but an eternal memory.

A man is master of himself to a certain point, but not beyond it. -William Crimsworth

Question who is the doer. Is it the mind or the Self?

Jangan pernah menyamakan karakter saya dengan tingkah laku saya. Karakter adalah jati diri saya yang sesungguhnya, yang menunjukkan siapa saya. Sementara tingkah laku saya terhadap Anda menunjukkan bagaimana tingkah laku Anda terhadap saya.

Stop chasing another busy self to become. Your real self is idle waiting to be lived… Go, take up your real self!

Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation. To be humble is not to make comparisons. Secure in its reality, the self is neither better nor worse, bigger nor...

For everyone now strives most of all to seperate his person, wishing to experience the fullness of life within himself, and yet what comes of all his efforts is not the fullness of life, but...

Henry Miller may write about revelers self-woven into a human hooked rug, because his ecstasy is solemn.

The highest goal of spirituality is Self-realization, but what does that mean? It means to feel your Self as a living reality in this moment, and there is always only this moment. (10)

There’s more to me than you see, another me down inside somewhere, full of hate, ready to hurt, cut, smash, or if maybe there’s no Other and there’s just me alone, then I’m not the...

We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.

I had a lot of self-loathing, … I’ve been self-sustained since I was 11. I’ve always been the one making the money, and to be flat on my back and … so vulnerable and then...

I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come...

Though the ‘Thou’ is not an ‘It’, it is also not “another ‘I'”. He who treats a person as “another ‘I'” does not really see that person but only a projected image of himself. Such...

Shrinking in a corner,pressed into the wall;do they know I’m present,am I here at all?

We are what we imagine. Our very existence consists in our imagination of ourselves. Our best destiny is to imagine, at least, completely, who and what, and that we are. The greatest tragedy that can...

You are the decision you make. The things you do. The people you love and who love you. They’re the things that really make you who you are.

To bite off your shadow is neither easy nor painless. It demands a single-mindedness that is almost unknown in this day.

…people demonize certain types of crime – it’s a way of distancing ourselves from the monsters…

The ego is as you think of yourself. You in relation to all the commitments of your life, as you understand them. The self is the whole range of possibilities that you’ve never even thought...

an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.

To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it’s hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.

Aren’t we all in varying degrees, captives in our own personal prisons, bound by our limiting habits?