Remind to yourself that it’s okay not to be perfect

The bottom line is they used a taxpayer funded, self-proclaimed war room to issue a political smear document, Harry’s Hypocrisy.

I’ve got a transcendental way of thinking about things. I’ve got a galactic self.

The interior life is often stupid. Its egoism blinds it and deafens it; its imagination spins out ignorant tales, fascinated. It fancies that the western wind blows on the Self, and leaves fall at the...

It follows that I must accept myself for what I am before I can deliberately change it.

Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense...

for whatever we lose (like a you or a me)it’s always ourselves we find in the sea.

Mas cada um de nós é um ser total do mundo, e da mesma forma como o corpo integra toda a trajetória da evolução, remontando ao peixe e mesmo a antes, levamos em nossa alma...

I’d rather strive for the kind of interview where instead of me asking to introduce myself to society, society asks me to introduce myself to society.

Can’t get away from your own self.

I needed a break…from myself.

The flight away from self to God is not a “forgetting self” in the sense that man thereby loses himself. Rather, in the experience of the Spirit there is bestowed on man the deepest possible...

You’re a Genius all the time

We may take it that the world is undoubtedly itself [i.e., is indistinct from itself], but, in any attempt to see itself, as an object, it must, equally, undoubtedly act so as to make itself...

‘Metals’ has partly been about me regaining my self respect and I feel like I’m growing the muscles I want to grow again.

I was the chain that bit into my ankle, and I was the ruthless guard that never slept.

What’s it like to figure out you’re gay and then begin the process of coming out? Well, for most of my life, I felt doomed. I could imagine no path that would allow me to...

We sit to make life meaningful. The significance of our life is not experienced in striving to create some perfect thing. We must simply start with accepting ourselves. Sitting brings us back to actually who...

When we let ourselves shine, we eclipse the realms of ordinary. This light, this spiritual life-force, effortlessly radiates within us and to those around us, illuminating the potentiality of our soul’s yearning–which is, in essence–the...

Buddha is someone with a very advanced self-concept. His self-esteem is perfect; he has gone beyond doubt; he knows, and he is confident of his knowledge; he expresses himself with conviction. When the Buddha talks...

There’s more than what the eye can see, the heart can love, and the brain can understand.

To know one’s self is wisdom, but not to know one’s neighbors is genius.

Time is a continuous journey of self-creation.

You only exist because of the agreements you made with yourself and with the other humans around you.

Sorry,” she said, heading for the bow, where a spot of sun looked inviting. ”Oh, also, about that blog? Just so you know, my dads know a lot of gay lawyers. Bitches will take your...

The woman I was yesterday, introduced me to the woman I am today; which makes me very excited about meeting the woman I will become tomorrow.

The “self,” it seems today, is at the core of the nation’s worldview rather than others (the common good), or God.

Stand up for who you are. Reject the status quo!

How wonderful to know that when Jesus Christ speaks to you and to me, he enables you to understand yourself, to die to that self because of the cross, and brings the real you to...

I am afraid of darkness… even though it knows me it loves me.

The new light above my table is a great improvement. With all this darkness around me I feel less alone. (Pause.) In a way. (Pause.) I love to get up and move about in it,...

I’ve triedto become someone else for a while,only to discover that he, too, was me.

For a moment the radio wavered between stationsand I was so busymaking myself marvelous.

Happiness is part of who we are. Joy is the feeling

One isn’t born one’s self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people’s ideas – and you have to work through it all.

When the Self is freed from mind there are no limits to what one can experience.

Whatever the hell I am, I am Me.

Badness is of the self, the one, the you or me on our oddy knockies, and that self is made by old Bog or God and is his great pride and radosty. But the not-self...

We wear clothes, and speak, and create civilizations, and believe we are more than wolves. But inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce and that is who we are.

She discovered that underneath the aspect of the Rumpled Porcupine, a tortured Marxist was at war with an impossible, incurable Romantic – who forgot the candles, who broke the wine glasses, who forgot the ring....

On some levels, our sport is self-policing in that if you make a mistake and get into someone, chances are they’ll settle the score. It may not happen at the next race, or the one...

By identifying with a particular name that belongs to a particular body and mind, the self begins the process of creating a separate identity. Add in a complex jumble of ideas, beliefs, and opinions, along...

What an idiot I’d been. What a spoilt brat. What a bloody fool.

No Self stands alone. Behind it stretches an immense chain of physical and – as a special class within the whole – mental events, to which it belongs as a reacting member and which it...

There’s a lot of things wrong with this country, but one of the few things still right with it is that a man can steer clear of the organized bullshit if he really wants to....

You can be yourself without pursuing yourself. Have you ever seen a dog chase his own tail? He just runs in circles.

Conversion of our views of self in light of God is continual. We daily have to take the time to notice and trust in who he is in order to understand who we are. The...

Over the years, I have come to realize that the greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity, or power, but self-rejection. Success, popularity, and power can indeed present a great temptation, but their...

To have humility is to experience reality, not in relation to ourselves, but in its sacred independence. It is to see, judge, and act from the point of rest in ourselves. Then, how much disappears,...

Enlightenment is not about cocooning one’s self, but about integrating more fully with both your self and life.