unconscious knowledge,” which is to say they simply recognize patterns and make associations with stimuli. Without episodic memories, there is no narrative; and without any narrative, there is no self. Somewhere between ages two and...

The hardest thing of all, is just standing in front of a mirror and not recognizing the reflection.

We must not be anything other than what we are.

The Soul debases her self, when she sets her affections on any thing but her creator.

your loved one” I think it’s quite stupid. I hate this commercialism. It’s all artificial, and has nothing to do with real love.

Markings in dry clay disappearOnly when the clay is soft again.Scars upon the self disappearOnly when one becomes soft within.

It sounds like a reasonable step for a self-regulated park to take.

Not only are selves conditional but they die. Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. So why, one could say, be afraid of death, when death comes all...

But let’s face it, I still have to look at my self and look at the things I’ve done down the stretch.

Always try to be perceptive and observant in living, sensatory for details and diversity. Always try to see beyond the surface, and look in another perspective. Always try not to judge. Always seeks new experience,...

I was driven to reflect deeply and inveterately on that hard law of life, which lies at the root of religion and is one of the most plentiful springs of distress. Though so profound a...

Vengeance against predators is meals on wheels.

Our thoughts are just a story our mind tell us.

[Baghdad would seem particularly vulnerable to such a wait-it-out strategy. It is not even close to being self-sufficient. If U.S. troops cut off the supply of water, food, electricity and communications, civilians would no doubt...

Even the Sun gets tired of rising, but he does it out of love for the Earth…

A human being is spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is the self? The self is a relation that relates itself to itself or is the relation’s relating itself to...

Pride can be friend, ego can be foe…depending on which one we choose, or not, to conquer.

I know that I’ve never been perfect. I think we determine what’s perfect to us. I think we understand perfect doesn’t come perfectly. If I was to be bare face or a face full of...

People tend to take things spoken as a joke seriously and things spoken seriously as a joke.

To the one who views from a larger perspective….everything is a blessing.

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.

[…] nobody grows up. Everyone carries around all the selves that they have ever been, intact, waiting to be reactivated in moments of pain, of fear, of danger. Everything is retrievable, every shock, every hurt....

The more I resist [Christ] and try to live on my own, the more I become dominated by my own heredity and upbringing and surroundings and natural desires. In fact what I so proudly call...

People think they are not satisfied with what they have but in true sense they are not satisfied with what they are.

You are accompanied through life, Emily Jesse occasionally understood, not only by the beloved and accusing departed, but by your own ghost too, also accusing, also unappeased.

We must realize that we are all, like Dr. Faust, ready to accept the devil’s inducements. The devil is in each one of us in the form of an ego that promises the fulfillment of...

You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.

What makes us leave what we love best?What is it inside us that keeps erasing itselfWhen we need it most,That sends us into uncertainty for its own sakeAnd holds us flush there until we begin...

Para o homem consciente só havia um dever: procurar-se a si mesmo, afirmar-se em si mesmo e seguir sempre adiante o seu próprio caminho, sem se preocupar com o fim a que possa conduzi-lo.

Awareness is our true self; it’s what we are. So we don’t have to try to develop awareness; we simply need to notice how we block awareness, with our thoughts, our fantasies, our opinions, and...

One of the few things I still miss from my Midwest childhood was this weird, deluded but unshakable conviction that everything around me existed all and only For Me. Am I the only one who...

A selfless service to humanity is also a selfless service to God

Good self-esteem comes from positive self-imaging. Positive self-image make you to resist wrong definitions others give about you, guiding you to live life with enthusiasm and will!

See how he cowers and sneaks, how vaguely all the day he fears, not being immortal nor divine, but the slave and prisoner of his own opinion of himself, a fame won by his own...

Caroline had felt more comfortable thinking of beauty as something separate from her, like a scarf or a coat you could check before going in to a show. She wondered now, however, if she had...

The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

Someone else’s vision will never be as good as your own vision of your self. Live and die with it ’cause in the end it’s all you have. Lose it and you lose yourself and...

Your dreaming self seeks to tell you something your waking ears will not hear

sorry recital of self-absorption.

This is absolute—you were born wholly equipped with every prerequisite to rock the world. Spiritual deficits results in a habit to misidentify with a fragmented self, a fragmented story and thusly, a fragmented identity. We...

If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.

If someone does not want me it is not the end of the world. But if I do not want me, the world is nothing but endings.

I’m just being too picky at what I swing at. I’m not being my normal aggressive self. The bottom line is (the umpires) aren’t going to change, so I’ve got to change.

Then from those profound slumbers we awake in a dawn, not knowing who we are, being nobody, newly born, ready for anything, the brain emptied of that past which was life until then. And perhaps...

I know everything of what i know, but of what i dont know i know nothing

I keep myself to myself.

When I loved myself enough, I would sometimes wake in the night to music playing within me.

Jim was his effusive self. We talked about Romania, where Jim was selling shopping center sites.

He had lived and acted on the assumption that he was alone, and now he saw that he had not been. What he had done made others suffer. No matter how much he would long...

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...