However self-sufficient we may fancy ourselves, we exist only in relation — to our friend, family, and life partners; to those we teach and mentor; to our co-workers, neighbors, strangers; and even to forces we...

Following feeling, relying on liking or wanting, we are not free. The freedom to “do as we like” is not freedom of choice because we are ruled by the powerful property of feeling; we cannot...

Nothing is the whole story. The self’s curse – and the writer’s.

We never know how high we areTill we are called to rise;And then, if we are true to plan,Our statures touch the skies.The heroism we reciteWould be a daily thing,Did not ourselves the cubits warpFor...

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.

All others are outside myself;I lock my door and bar them outThe turmoil, tedium, gad-about.I lock my door upon myself,And bar them out; but who shall wallSelf from myself, most loathed of all?If I could...

I’m not going to spend two years on a film or four years on an opera if I don’t feel like I can put my own self into it. That doesn’t mean it has to...

The development of the meaning attaching to the personal self, the conscious being, is the subject matter of the history of psychology.

Now comes the hour to choose between being acceptable to others or being acceptable to one’s own self, for we must kill our true selves off in order to survive.

The harsh reality is that my flesh must die not so much because of what it does, but because of what it is.

One may escape from the prisons of experience, ideology or philosophy, but it is impossible to escape from the reality of one’s innermost self. Understanding this, I had freed myself from nostalgia, and having done...

self awareness is self created birth. after that it is unstoppable.

I suspected once that any human life, however intricate and full it might be, consisted in reality of one moment: the moment when a man knows for all time who he is.

As far as you can avoid it, do not give grief to anyone. Never inflict your rage on another. If you hope for eternal rest, feel the pain yourself; but don’t hurt others.

The idea that there is a sharp boundary between our true inner selves and the outside world is pervasive but highly questionable. The boundaries of the self might well be more porous than we ordinarily...

the abyss you stare into and that stares back at you is your reflection in the mirror – we all have it – that shadow self – that dark heart…

Your expectation of something unique and dramatic, of some wonderful explosion, is merely hindering and delaying your Self Realization. You are not to expect an explosion, for the explosion has already happened – at the...

Life is a valuable and unique opportunityto discover who you are.But it seems as soon as you nearanswering that age-old question,something unexpected always happensto alter your course.And who it is you thought you weresuddenly changes.Then...

The Self says ‘I AM’–as in the very grand sayings of Christ, especially in the Gospel of John, in which he says in the state of onenenss with Yahweh (which in Hebrew means ‘I AM’),...

But there were too many points at which the other self could invade the self he wanted to preserve, and there were too many forms of invasion: certain words, sounds, lights, actions his hands or...

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

Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.

In silence you shall face self…and have respect.

Gli trasmettevano un senso profondo di odio, forse perché erano così alieni da pregiudicare in lui qualsiasi percezione reale della loro sostanza.

Consider everyone trustworthy until they prove otherwise.

Stop in somebody’s shadow to rest and cool down, and you are lost. No one can make anyone else happy.

Most of us have nicknames—annoying, endearing, embarrassing.But what about your true name?It is not necessarily your given name. But it is the one to which you are most eager to respond when called.Ever wonder why?Your...

I am my mother, but I’m not,” I was saying my path would be my own.

Everyone must correct his own self; this is something more difficult to cope with, but it is not impossible.

Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.

Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others.

Hopefully, when he wakes up the headache will be gone and he will be back to his normal self and go back to thinking about the hatch again.

There can only be two basic loves… the love of God unto the forgetfulness of self, or the love of self unto the forgetfulness and denial of God.

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...