He sat thus, lost in meditation, thinking Om, his soul as the arrow directed at Brahman.

It often occurs that pride and selfishness are muddled with strength and independence. They are neither equal nor similar; in fact, they are polar opposites. A coward may be so cowardly that he masks his...

Cowardice is when you hide away from your real self, and wear another self in pretense. Be yourself; that is bravery. If yourself is not better for you to be, change yourself and live in...

Possessions and positions may promote our happiness but cannot create it. Happiness is a state created by self through the realization of how the self is important to the creator.

Being goal-oriented instead of self-oriented is crucial. I know so many people who want to be writers. But let me tell you, they really don’t want to be writers. They want to have been writers....

It’s a sort of furtiveness … Like we were a generation of furtive. You know, with an inner knowledge there’s no use flaunting on that level, the level of the ‘public’, a kind of beatness...

When I suddenly see myself in the depths of the mirror, I take fright. I can scarcely believe that I have limits, that I am outlined and defined. I feel myself to be dispersed in...

He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice.

I shall strip away layer after layer of grime — the toffee-colored varnish and caked soot left by a lifetime of dissembling — until I come to the very thing itself and know it for...

The truth is he spends thirty minutes of every hour suspecting he has missed some essential clue about himself. And not only himself–he has a recurring fantasy that one night, while he was asleep, the...

Whatever you is, Onion,” he said, “be it full.

Apparently Brooklyn needn’t always push itself to be something else, something conscious and anxious, something pointed toward Manhattan…. Brooklyn might sometimes also be pleased, as here on Flatbush, to be its grubby, enduring self.

i have a body and I am grateful, as I find it to be a very useful instrument for expressing love, strength, flexibility, gracebut, I am not my body…

He doesn’t have anything like wisdom of age or hindsight. He’s a biased historian of self, an emotional revisionist. We all are, for the most part.

without awareness I have no ‘ self ‘ in myself.

Sometimes, we can be our worst enemy. That our mind is capable of twisting and turning things, and taking us to really dark places.

Aside from myself, there was no sign of me.

I think there is something a little too self conscious about enjoying being an outsider.

…we fear monsters because we fear the dark parts of ourselves…

To deal with things knowledge of things is needed. To deal withpeople, you need insight, sympathy. To deal with yourself, you neednothing. Be what you are–conscious being–and don’t stray away fromyourself.

If I can be my crazy, wild self in front of a person, and he still likes me, that’s romantic.

Great people will always be mocked by those who feel smaller than them. A lion does not flinch at laughter coming from a hyena. A gorilla does not budge from a banana thrown at it...

It wasn’t necessary to know your own demons in order to find God.

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

As Lucretius says: ‘Thus ever from himself doth each man flee.’ But what does he gain if he does not escape from himself? He ever follows himself and weighs upon himself as his own most...

The solution to self-pity is found in the labor of selfless giving to others.

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...

If you cannot value a commitment made by someone else, your own commitments lose their value too.

A real pleasure is a pleasure that one enjoys by one’s self, without a companion, and without a single argument.

Sometimes I think that wisdoms slip from my mind like drool from the lips of an idiot…Where’s all this stuff coming from? Is it any good? Any good in, you know, the wisdom sense? Who...

‪#‎STEREOTYPES‬ ‪#‎SOCIETY‬ ‪#‎COMPATIBILITY‬ ‪#‎BREAKTHROUGH‬Stereotypes?? What are they?? WE ARE SOCIETY, WE MAKE SOCIETY..WE ARE NOT MARRIED TO SOCIETY,WE LIVE IN IT!

He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His evil spirits immerse him deep in vices and make his bad actions seem...

Of necessity, the autobiographical self is not just about one individual but about all the others that an individual interacts with. Of necessity, it incorporates the culture in which the interactions took place.

Like the appearance of silver in mother of pearl, the world seems real until the Self, the underlying reality, is realized.

Don’t think about making life better for other people who don’t even deserve you, rather, focus on making your life the best, for yourself and those who love you.

There are many going afar to marvel at the heights of mountains, the mighty waves of the sea, the long courses of great rivers, the vastness of the ocean, the movements of the stars, yet...

In the end, I always act from the heart, even if I also value reason and tradition. I wish I could explain why, but I don’t know.

There is no one else who can ever fill your role in the same way, so it’s a good idea to perform it as well as possible.

Sinua hengittämällä pidättelen sisälläni asuvaa petoa liikkumasta ja puremasta sisäelimiäni hajalle.

Changing yourself is not about changing of what you are. But changing other’s perspective that they always think you are.

intuitive boundary” of a sensory state. That most philosophers take such states as brain-bound is not an intuition, but a prejudice.

It does seem – well, difficult – to be at the mercy of some gross, unshaven stranger before you can begin to be yourself.

That’s what fame does to you. You acquire another self.

Without Psychological Evolution there cannot be any form of revolution. The self is constantly changing. Be involved, be evolved, be revolutionized as lucent and fresh as the new wave hitting at the shore. Become the...

Owing to ignorance of the rope the rope appears to be a snake; owing to ignorance of the Self the transient state arises of the individualized, limited, phenomenal aspect of the Self.

She wondered why they didn’t understand that their true selfs were good enough, and if they weren’t, then the someones they weren’t good enough for, were really the ones not good enough.

It’s ego – the false self – that exalts the guru and declares the teaching sacred, but nothing is exalted or sacred, only true or not true.

Writing is all at once an exploration of what is, and what is not. Of the known, and the unknown. A journey into the depths of self, and all of humankind.

Those who care about me will forget me but, those who love me will never let go of me.

Why are you here?Where am I?You have come to this place… to lie in the ground?The derision in the question was clear.I have come to this place to find peace.And what is peace?Laughter in the...