You speak as if this is a good world with a little evil in it. Rubbish. It’s a hellish one where the best a man can do is put a little sanity back and look...

True emptiness is not empty, but contains all things. The mysterious and pregnant void creates and reflects all possibilities. From it arises our individuality, which can be discovered and developed, although never possessed or fixed.

Fame is damaging when people become reliant on it for their sense of self, and their identity, when fame is linked to how you see yourself.

same.” The past consistently becomes the present, not through linear time, but through the constant reconstruction and relabeling of it.

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.

The sword wears out its sheath, as it is sometimes said. That is my story. My passions have made me live, and my passions have killed me. What passions, it may be asked. Trifles, the...

When I fall in love, I manifest my true soul.

It is a full-time job to cope with alien elements from both interpersonal sources and societal influences.

I keep telling myself sensible things, but I never seem to listen!

When our emotional health is in a bad state, so is our level of self-esteem. We have to slow down and deal with what is troubling us, so that we can enjoy the simple joy...

once you meet your own self-effortlessly you can expand your best qualities to the outer world.

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

At 16 I was stupid, confused, . . . and indecisive. At 21 I was wise, self-confident, . . . and assertive. At 45 I’m stupid, confused, . . . and indecisive. [Is] maturity only...

It’s a very self-empowering fuel. You can make it yourself.

When we put things off until some future-probably mythical-Laterland, we drag the past into the future. The burden of yesterday’s incompletions is a heavy load to carry. Don’t carry it.

Each of us is several, is man, is a profusion of selves. So that the self who disdains his surroundings is not the same as the self who suffers or takes joy in them. In...

As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions has been a solace in adversity and added zest to...

Treat all as your own self. Do not have a double standard.

As fire, though one, takes the shape of every object which it consumes, so the Self, though one, takes the shape of every object in which it dwells. (The Upanishads: Breath of the Eternal, pg....

I have said that the soul is not more than the body,And I have said that the body is not more than the soul,And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one’s-self is,

Inspiration is not the thing which can be seek, its right within you.

Self sufficiency is an extremely unusual phenomenon nowadays.

The problem with introspection is that it has no end.

Don’t be surprised by your greatness. Be surprised that no one expected it.

YOU are the creator of your experience, therefore: all problems must be met within YOU.

To be alone with yourself is to be alone. To be in the company of others is to be alone together.The only time you are not alone is when you forget yourself and reach out...

The secret seemed to me much more mysterious than that; it was the secret, I thought, of one who had known death; for I moved a stranger among ordinary people, like a man who has...

I see the American experience as being defined by the immigrant paradigm of rupture and renewal: rupture with the old world, the old ways, and renewal of the self in a bright but difficult New...

Knowledge of self ought to be the great project of our lives. Knowing ourselves we will know others. Only by knowing ourselves can we begin to undo the madness we unleash on the world in...

Not a believer in the mosque am I,Nor a disbeliever with his rites am I.I am not the pure amongst the impure,I am neither Moses nor Pharaoh.Bulleh, I know not who I am.Not in the...

Accepting the reality of our sinfulness means accepting our authentic self. Judas could not face his shadow; Peter could. The latter befriended the impostor within; the former raged against him.

I will not find myself, nor will I obtain any precarious morsel of life in giving all of life to myself. If I am ever to find these things, I must first be willing to...

Shall you live authentically who you are or will you spend your allotted living the life of someone you imagine your self to be?

I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.

Self is one, personal and impersonal. But it is only on the personal level that one comes to know the Self.When you know the Self, you realize there are two types of knowledge. First is...

If you can’t love yourself, how can you love others?

You are here on earth to unearth who on earth you are.

Until you are able to answer the question of self, you’ll still be living under someones shadows

afflictions are classed as peripheral mental factors and are not themselves any of the six main minds [eye, ear, nose, tongue, body and mental consciousnesses]. however, when any of the afflicting mental factors becomes manifest,...

Each of us comes into being knowing who he is and what he is supposed to do.’ … ‘Small children know,’ Leto said. ‘It’s only after adults have confused them that children hide this knowledge...

You don’t know how to talk to people you don’t like. Don’t love, really. You can’t live in the world with such strong likes and dislikes.

There’s just something unsettling about studying your reflection. It’s not a matter of being dissatisfied with your face or of being embarrassed by your vanity. Maybe it’s that when you gaze into your own eyes,...

Staying requires being curious about who you actually are when you don’t take yourself to be a collection of memories.When you don’t infer your existence form replaying what happened to you, when you don’t take...

Sadly, black people disassociate ourselves from the things which make us who we are, identifying them as lesser, or inferior. It’s a form of self hate. So, with reckless abandon, we strive to be like...

A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.

We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers – but never blame yourself. It’s never your fault. But it’s always your fault, because if you wanted to...

Because we are made in God’s image, in fleeing from a relationship with a loving God, we are also running from being our most authentic selves.

Every angel is terrifying.Through the darkness, they move silently…I will go down into death with you.I must go where I must goTo see what I must seeIn that place where no one knows…… This is...

For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.

old photographs are very deceiving, they give us the illusion that we are alive in them, and it’s not true, the person we are looking at no longer exists, and if that person could see...