When you submit yourself to God and obey Him, you allow Him to do what He desires in your life. You make it possible for Him to lead you wherever He wants to use you.

When you’re traveling you need to take care of yourself to get by, you have to keep an eye on yourself and your place in the world. It means concentrating on yourself, thinking about yourself...

By gazing inward the true reflection of the self is revealed.

you actually do not hate you, you just hate the circumstances at the time

You are never alone as long as you are in the company of your precious self.

Like blind hens, we are ignorant of our own self and the depths within us.

It is wisest to be impartial. If you have health, but are attached to it, you will always be afraid of losing it. And if you fear that loss, but become ill, you will suffer....

When you become the image of your own imagination, it’s the most powerful thing you could ever do.

Service is not something you do. It is something you are.

Actually, this is a self-supporting project.

There is no separate path other than knowing one’s self.

When a man does not dwell in self, then things will of themselves reveal their forms to him. His movement is like that of water, his stillness like that of a mirror, his responses like...

It is more substantial to represent a purpose, rather than just a title.

You do not need permission to be you. Just be your authentic, brilliant, one-soul-only self. You are a marvel. Act like it!

It’s only recently that we’ve discovered that the artist’s inner self is somehow more important than the public world. I’m happier to create exterior pieces for the world rather than to express something I deeply...

Sexy at the millennium means having a solid sense of self but never taking yourself too seriously.

Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves – their strengths, their values, and how they best perform.

And I’m made up of everyone I’ve ever met who’s changed the way I think. So who is “me”?

In the night, I am kept awake by the endless chatter of my inner self. I hear it speak softly of old hurts and fondly of past loves, while its demands and anxieties resound throughout...

We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.

If you never tell anyone the truth about yourself, eventually you start to forget. The love, the heartbreak, the joy, the despair, the things I did that were good, the things I did that were...

At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one’s lost self.

When you eliminate the Ego’s intense desire to be correct, the clarity of the moment can come through. How simple is that?

Martial art is a form of expression, an expression from your inner self to your hands and legs.

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.