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.

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.

Who I am is intrinsically linked to where I am and whom I’m with.

Cheltuim astăzi cu mult mai mult pentru băutură şi fumat dec t cheltuim pentru edu- caţie. Şi nu e de mirare. Aproape în fiecare dintre noi, aproape tot timpul, există pornirea de a fugi de...

Your inner strength is your outer foundation

The most enduring relationship we can have, is the one we have with our self. It is the foundation of everything. Respect for self is the basis for self-love. Value and love yourself with dignity...

Become what you should and not what you want to be.

I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?

There comes a time when all that remains for us to do is to surrender to the idiosyncrasies of our nature.

He was assaulting the world by assaulting himself.

It is precisely the sort of thing I am always trying to do in my writing – to present my unhappy reader with a wide-ranged chaos – of actions and reactions, thoughts, memories and feelings...

The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being.

There’s something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.

The act of underlining always contains an element of self-recognition.

It is ourselves we encounter whenever we invent fictions.

The line between true self and feigned self is blurred on all sides.

‘Dance to the Music’ was just Sly Stone being his natural crazy self right from the beginning. The man was an original and his first AM hit was nothing if it wasn’t the example per...