…people demonize certain types of crime – it’s a way of distancing ourselves from the monsters…

The ego is as you think of yourself. You in relation to all the commitments of your life, as you understand them. The self is the whole range of possibilities that you’ve never even thought...

an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.

To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it’s hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.

Aren’t we all in varying degrees, captives in our own personal prisons, bound by our limiting habits?

The wise are those who know the Self.

Practical utility, however, is not the ultimate purpose of a liberal arts education. Its ultimate purpose is to help you learn to reflect in the widest and deepest sense, beyond the requirements of work and...

Self-will and prayer are both ways of getting things done. At the center of self-will is me, carving a world in my image, but at the center of prayer is God, carving me in his...

If they keep the word, the financial markets will like that, because the Fed has put itself in a self-imposed box. If they discard the word measured, they’ll be saying they’re free to do what...

People do not have the power to change situations, situations have the power to change people though.

He’s at a place where he’s more honest, reflective and self-effacing.

He Who Owns Himself Is Never Alone.

Compartmentalization is an unconscious psychological defense mechanism employed to avoid cognitive dissonance.

We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin.

At the moment of death, the real central man, the thing that chose, that made the best or the worst out of the raw material he was given at birth, will stand naked. All sorts...

I think privacy is important, and it’s important you don’t bore people with your own boring self.

the worst thing,” he told me,”is bitterness, people end up sobitter.

How can I accept a limited definable self when I feel, in me, all possibilities?… I never feel the four walls around the substance of the self, the core. I feel only space. Illimitable space.

I simply believe that some part of the human Self or Soul is not subject to the laws of space and time.

Why does it take a man’s attention to make me see anything good about myself?

A vida de todo ser humano é um caminho em direção a si mesmo, a tentativa de um caminho, o seguir de um simples rastro. Homem algum chegou a ser completamente ele mesmo; mas todos...

Many of us fight for and boast our freedom of what is ultimately the ability to prove ourselves to other people. It is unfortunate that only a few of us are so free in our...

I’ll wear a maze on a necklace, dangling over my chest, because if you want to get at my heart, you have to be ready to lose yourself.

Discipline is what it takes to be a disciple of success

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...