Clearly in an era in which most athletic departments are told to be self-sufficient, they should look more like the way a business is structured.

We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn. It’s absurd. We run the risk of warping what’s best in...

If they want me to have mysticism, okay, I’ve got it.I’m a mystic, but only in my body,My soul is simple and doesn’t think.

For at some point, each of us will be asked to embody what we feel and know.

I really wanted to take her photo, so I walked up to the nearest adult and asked, ‘Does she belong to you?’ Suddenly the music stopped, and I heard: ‘I belong to myself!

Live in the wisdom of accepted tenderness. Tenderness awakens within the security of knowing we are thoroughly and sincerely liked by someone…Scripture suggests that the essence of the divine nature is compassion and that the...

Without unreservedly surrendering myself to God, whatever place I might raise myself to remains nothing more than a step or possibly two off the hard basement floor of life, for of myself I can be...

No self is of itself alone. It has a long chain of intellectual ancestors. The “I” is chained to ancestry by many factors… This is not mere allegory, but an eternal memory.

A man is master of himself to a certain point, but not beyond it. -William Crimsworth

Question who is the doer. Is it the mind or the Self?

Jangan pernah menyamakan karakter saya dengan tingkah laku saya. Karakter adalah jati diri saya yang sesungguhnya, yang menunjukkan siapa saya. Sementara tingkah laku saya terhadap Anda menunjukkan bagaimana tingkah laku Anda terhadap saya.

Stop chasing another busy self to become. Your real self is idle waiting to be lived… Go, take up your real self!

Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation. To be humble is not to make comparisons. Secure in its reality, the self is neither better nor worse, bigger nor...

For everyone now strives most of all to seperate his person, wishing to experience the fullness of life within himself, and yet what comes of all his efforts is not the fullness of life, but...

Henry Miller may write about revelers self-woven into a human hooked rug, because his ecstasy is solemn.

The highest goal of spirituality is Self-realization, but what does that mean? It means to feel your Self as a living reality in this moment, and there is always only this moment. (10)

There’s more to me than you see, another me down inside somewhere, full of hate, ready to hurt, cut, smash, or if maybe there’s no Other and there’s just me alone, then I’m not the...

We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.

Most of the tools from medieval times were extensions of the physical self. Tools are now extensions of the mental self.

I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come...

Though the ‘Thou’ is not an ‘It’, it is also not “another ‘I'”. He who treats a person as “another ‘I'” does not really see that person but only a projected image of himself. Such...

Shrinking in a corner,pressed into the wall;do they know I’m present,am I here at all?

We are what we imagine. Our very existence consists in our imagination of ourselves. Our best destiny is to imagine, at least, completely, who and what, and that we are. The greatest tragedy that can...

You are the decision you make. The things you do. The people you love and who love you. They’re the things that really make you who you are.

To bite off your shadow is neither easy nor painless. It demands a single-mindedness that is almost unknown in this day.

…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.

Who I am is intrinsically linked to where I am and whom I’m with.

Cheltuim astăzi cu mult mai mult pentru băutură şi fumat dec t cheltuim pentru edu- caţie. Şi nu e de mirare. Aproape în fiecare dintre noi, aproape tot timpul, există pornirea de a fugi de...

Your inner strength is your outer foundation

The most enduring relationship we can have, is the one we have with our self. It is the foundation of everything. Respect for self is the basis for self-love. Value and love yourself with dignity...

Become what you should and not what you want to be.

I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?

There comes a time when all that remains for us to do is to surrender to the idiosyncrasies of our nature.

He was assaulting the world by assaulting himself.

It is precisely the sort of thing I am always trying to do in my writing – to present my unhappy reader with a wide-ranged chaos – of actions and reactions, thoughts, memories and feelings...

The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being.

There’s something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.

The act of underlining always contains an element of self-recognition.