On some level, I think we want our reading self to represent our best self.

He was a victim of his own integrity, which forced him to do his best, even when he would have preferred to do nothing at all.

Ask anyone and they’ll most likely say their family is crazy, and if they don’t say their family is crazy, their friends are crazy. That’s because everyone is crazy after taking the mask off. People...

In that little pocket-size world of his, he was the absolute master.

The goal of privacy is not to protect some stable self from erosion but to create boundaries where this self can emerge, mutate, and stabilize.

I got a boob job on my butt, and be honest here, does this bra make my ass look fat?

Acted drama requires surrender of one’s self, sympathetic absorption in the play as it develops.

You have to find out who you are aside from what the media say you are. If you’ve become reliant on them for kind of a sense of self, then you’re really screwed.

Not in the clamor of the crowded street,Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng,But in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.

We don’t like to admit it, but the idea of losing control is one that fascinates controlled people such as ourselves more than almost anything. All truly civilized people – the ancients no less than...

I often think of the image only I can see now, and of which I’ve never spoken. It’s always there, in the same silence, amazing. It’s the only image of myself I like, the only...

Our real self is under siege by our anti-self.

..Imam Ali [A]..’However knows himself (his soul or spirit) knows [or has known] his Lord

We all have bad things inside us, and we all choose either to give in to those bad things or to fight them.

The ultimate reality from which the path of this becoming could start off again will no longer rest on a ground of ‘causa sui.’ in any case the sense of a God who would alone...

A journal of the ‘subjective’ kind I have always thought foolish, as nurturing a morbid self -consciousness in the writer; and yet, alone so much as I am, it is well to have some sort...

Change from the inside out involves a steadfast gaze upon our Lord that’s life changing because it reflects a deep turning from a commitment to self-sufficiency. Without repentance, a look at Christ provides only the...

Some people think they can find satisfaction in good food, fine clothes, lively music, and sexual pleasure. However, when they have all these things, they are not satisfied. They realize happiness is not simply having...

Love places someone else in the centre of your being and your own self is blurred.

Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure.

Our abilities and possibilities are at one and the same time very limited and quite infinite dependent on the depth of our relationship to our ‘self’, others and life itself.

Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help BookorHow you can survive in the Cosmos about which you know more and more while knowing less and less about yourself, this despite 10,000 self-help books, 100,000 psychotherapists,...

The key to failure is, lack of self discipline.

I depart as air, I shake my white locks at the runway sun, I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love. If you want me again look for me under...

The sage is sick of being sick (Tao Te Ching)

Betrayals that make your soul scream so loud you wonder why no one else hears it. In the end, we are all alone in that private hell. But life isn’t about learning to forgive those...

holding the eveningtremblingly close to mei weepinto the sun lettingthe burdenof hopelift off my chesti realizethis is what it meansto be free.

If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you.

To think is to have doubt….yet even thinking will bring you to “no thought”….eventually.

You can only get outside yourself by looking inside.

It’s good when a man deceives your expectations, when he doesn’t correspond to the preconceived notion of him. To belong to a type is the end of a man, his condemnation. If he doesn’t fall...

The people around you are mirrors, I think. You see yourself reflected in their eyes. If the mirror is true, and smooth, you see your true self. That’s how you learn who you are.

Anytime I was denying my inner self, I knew absolutely nothing.

It’s okay. We’re all messed up in our own special way.

Silent solitude makes true speech possible and personal. If I am not in touch with my own belovedness, then I cannot touch the sacredness of others. If I am estranged from myself, I am likewise...

[E]ach of our voices has something unique to say. Not only should I not mold my life to the demands of external conformity; I can’t even find the model by which to live outside myself....

One must find the source within one’s own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking — a detour, an error.

Bir insan, yargılanmayı göze almadan kendisi olmayı nasıl başarabilir ki?

Look, you can’t think of a person like it’s one thing, one ‘I’ that decides everything. The brain is a collective, a huge number of all these thinking modules. It doesn’t make a decision, it...

Love After LoveThe time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile at the other’s welcome, and say, sit here. Eat....

All hatred is self-hatred, just as all healing is self-healing.

There’s the part that I just want what I want, and I don’t want to be bothered by anything else, and sort of the short-term more compulsive self. And then that’s the longer-term, aspirational self...

Think of the self that God has given as an acorn. It is a marvelous little thing, a perfect shape, perfectly designed for its purpose, perfectly functional. Think of the grand glory of an oak...

Small souls who seek power over others first destroy the faith those others might have in themselves.

What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!

My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony.

But replacing hunger for divine connection with Double Stuf Oreos is like giving a glass of sand to a person dying of thirst. It creates more thirst, more panic.

Weary of myself, and sick of asking What I am, and what I ought to be, At this vessel’s prow I stand, which bears me Forwards, forwards, o’er the starlit sea.

I can pour myself into Bon Iver. It’s a thing about self- and mental discovery, and those are all important things. But it’s not 148-shows-over-a-year-and-a-half important, though. It’s a machine, and it’s money, and you...