And the idea of ourselves is our escape from the fact of what we really are.

For me, running is both exercise and a metaphor. Running day after day, piling up the races, bit by bit I raise the bar, and by clearing each level I elevate myself. At least that’s...

There is no shame in having been the woman I was. She made me the woman I am.

No, you”.

Self-care is possessing enough self-awareness to invoke repeated patterns of being, that harmoniously correct the behaviors of over-functioning for others while under-functioning for yourself.

My wealth is in my knowledge of self, love, and spirituality.

My head’ll explode if I continue with this escapism.

A Coy Aversion…a fluttertoo shyto be seen…

You are what your creators and experiences have made you, like every other being in this universe. Accept that and be done; I tire of your whining.

Humans have invented all kinds of symbols to communicate not only with other humans but more importantly with ourselves.

I’m talking about a little truth-in-packaging here. To be perfectly frank, you don’t quite look like yourself. And if you walk around looking like someone other than who you are, you could end up getting...

Enriched vocabularies someone had (and used) are produced by a boundless wondrous mind. Sometime with a non mediocre experience also.

True, lasting peace comes not through stamping out the ignorance of others, but through cultivating acceptance with ourselves.

Am I in love? – yes, since I am waiting. The other one never waits. Sometimes I want to play the part of the one who doesn’t wait; I try to busy myself elsewhere, to...

Well, I would be fooling my-self if I said it didn’t set us back some, because it did. After all, we were looking to have them eventually run for state legislative seats in the near...

I do not want this thing to become dependent on me. I want it to be self-sustaining. Really, for this to be a grass-roots effort, some people need to pick it up and run with...

We search for happiness across every landscape, if only we knew that the seed in which it first grows, is planted within ourselves…

By seeing the multitude of people around it, by being busied with all sorts of worldly affairs, by being wise to the ways of the world, such a person forgets himself, in a divine sense...

Live what you be, not what you see.

Keep your best wishes, close to your heart and watch what happens

There are just two things that can make you famous.. being noble or notorious.

Everything you experience is a blessing and pushes you toward realizing your true self.

Once upon a time, began the story of you.Many perilous, wonderful, harrowing, brilliant, delightful, profound things happened.And yet—the most exciting twists and best turns are yet to come. And it absolutely does not matter how...

I refuse to GROW UP……………………….Grow up to be what the World expects me to be..

Only by entering new and unfamiliar worlds can a person change society as well as self.

There was a spring in his carefully measured step. He opened the door and let the sunlight in, as if opening himself up, letting pent-up energy out and, letting the world enter inside- letting the...

darkness falls upon Humanityand faces become terriblethingsthat wanted more than therewas.all our days are marked withunexpectedaffronts – somedisastrous, othersless sobut the process iswearing andcontinuous.attrition rules.most givewayleavingempty spaceswhere people shouldbe.and nowas we ready to self-destructthere is...

Our whole lives, it was like we were always trying so hard to be perfect – for our families and our friends, for each other – when the funny thing was, we didn’t have to....

I’d just killed some of the best riders in the world – and I was clean. I’d taken nothing – no EPO, no cortisone, no testosterone, no painkillers, no caffeine. I had justified to myself...

Ukisema ukweli utapata uhuru wa nafsi. Ukisema uongo utapata uhuru wa umma. Heri uhuru wa nafsi kuliko wa umma.

Along with people in other creative professions, such as artists and musicians, many scientists experience this transcendence. I do so every day. For one, it’s impossible to look an ape in the eye and not...

I like solitude. It is when you truly hear and speak your natural, unadulterated mind, and out comes your most stupid self as well as your most intelligent self. It is when you realize who...

the undiscovered self”; being alive without knowing why.

The goal of evolution is self – conquest

Operating without the knowledge of self identity is a plaque to destiny

Who put the S in comic to make cosmic? / The Self, which is the self of all beings – / choosing to disguise from themselves / that everything is just a game. // With...

always say something! is either to yourself or to the world around!

After a while, you have to be at peace with the fact that you simply are. There is no way to know why.

Realize you have awesome people around you who want to love you. Let them. Show them you love them back. (Actions trump words.) Do the forgiveness thing. If necessary-and it almost always is- do the...

I like to reinvent myself — it’s part of my job.

You filter the cues that you get from others through your self-concept.

That which enables us to know and understand aright in the things of God, must be a living principle of holiness within us.

The theme of invisibility has haunted me for many years, since earliest girlhood. A woman often feels ‘invisible’ in a public sense precisely because her physical being – her ‘visibility’ – figures so prominently in...

Like the medieval cartographers of Europe, who felt one would fall into endless space at the edges of the oceans of their maps, we fear the presumed nothingness of no-self. Fortunately, there have been many...

What we have not had to decipher, to elucidate by our own efforts, what was clear before we looked at it, is not ours. From ourselves comes only that which we drag forth from the...

My mediocrity is no secret; My battles with it are

It isn’t until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are – not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within – that you can begin to take control.

We were revisionists; what we revised was ourselves.

Truth is a relationship. As such, each one of us receives the truth and expresses it from within, that is to say, according to one’s own circumstances, culture, and situation in life.

You are an ocean in a drop of dew,all the universes in a thin sack of blood.What are these pleasures then,these joys, these worldsthat you keep reaching for,hoping they will make you more alive?