Whatever the hell I am, I am Me.

Badness is of the self, the one, the you or me on our oddy knockies, and that self is made by old Bog or God and is his great pride and radosty. But the not-self...

We wear clothes, and speak, and create civilizations, and believe we are more than wolves. But inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce and that is who we are.

She discovered that underneath the aspect of the Rumpled Porcupine, a tortured Marxist was at war with an impossible, incurable Romantic – who forgot the candles, who broke the wine glasses, who forgot the ring....

On some levels, our sport is self-policing in that if you make a mistake and get into someone, chances are they’ll settle the score. It may not happen at the next race, or the one...

By identifying with a particular name that belongs to a particular body and mind, the self begins the process of creating a separate identity. Add in a complex jumble of ideas, beliefs, and opinions, along...

What an idiot I’d been. What a spoilt brat. What a bloody fool.

No Self stands alone. Behind it stretches an immense chain of physical and – as a special class within the whole – mental events, to which it belongs as a reacting member and which it...

There’s a lot of things wrong with this country, but one of the few things still right with it is that a man can steer clear of the organized bullshit if he really wants to....

You can be yourself without pursuing yourself. Have you ever seen a dog chase his own tail? He just runs in circles.

Conversion of our views of self in light of God is continual. We daily have to take the time to notice and trust in who he is in order to understand who we are. The...

Over the years, I have come to realize that the greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity, or power, but self-rejection. Success, popularity, and power can indeed present a great temptation, but their...

To have humility is to experience reality, not in relation to ourselves, but in its sacred independence. It is to see, judge, and act from the point of rest in ourselves. Then, how much disappears,...

Enlightenment is not about cocooning one’s self, but about integrating more fully with both your self and life.

Remember you come here having already understood the necessity of struggling with yourself — only with yourself. Therefore thank everyone who gives you the opportunity.

He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and...

What else should our lives be but a continual series of beginnings, of painful settings out into the unknown, pushing off from the edges of consciousness into the mystery of what we have not yet...

You are — your life, and nothing else.

Although Western society has emphasized the importance of high self-esteem, the more important thing may be to have self-compassion, the ability to treat oneself kindly in the face of failure, rejection, defeat and other negative...

Life isn’t only about choice. Life is about how you provide value to your life and others.

One of the great things about wrestling is how it interrogates this silly idea that you have one authentic self.

Give yourself something to work toward — constantly.

Sometimes our Biggest Nightmare turns out to be our Biggest Gift. And it all comes down to our attitude. Life will throw us curve balls and disappointments, even heartbreak. But ultimately we can choose if...

We are not our own light.

Your effort to remain what you are is what limits you.

I once heard a tale of a man who split himself in two.The one part never changed at all; the other grew and grew.The changeless part was always true, The growing part was always new,And...

To take refuge with an inferior is to betray one’s self.

To be in a couple, do you have to put your single self on a shelf?

Our thinking will automatically improve when we remember the words of Paul: ‘know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and the spirit of God dwelleth in you?

When something is truly meant for YOU, you won’t have to force it, rush it, or manipulate it.

No matter the situation don’t let your emotions overpower your intelligence.

Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves,As souls only understand souls.

Your life experience is a moving picture, of which you are writer, director, performer, producer and critic.

If the ego is not regularly and repeatedly dissolved in the unbounded hyperspace of the Transcendent Other, there will always be slow drift away from the sense of self as part of nature’s larger whole....

With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books.

He liked what he had too much.

I wish I wasn’t an imperial highness or an ex-grand duchess. I’m sick of people doing things to me because of what I am. Girl-in-white-dress. Short-one-with-fringe. Daughter-of-the-tsar. Child-of-the-ex-tyrant. I want people to look and see...

…there is no better time to examine and understand one’s selfhood than when it is dissected and hurtling through darkness.

Secrets. Funny how, when you’re about to be given something precious, something you’ve wanted for a long time, you suddenly feel nervous over taking it.Everyone wants more than anything to be allowed into someone else’s...

A true legacy is established over a lifetime and relates to what a human being does for others, not for himself.

The neural basis for the self, as I see it, resides with the continuous reactivation of at least two sets of representations. One set concerns representations of key events in an individual’s autobiography, on the...

Happiness is attained, not through self-interest, but through unconditional fidelity in endless love of eternal light.

Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion.

Healing is the journey. The destination is our self. The full recognition of all the different aspects of our self — our joy, our sorrow, our pain, our pleasure….all lead us to the source of...

I think myself so terribly ‘clever’ that the need for God is blatantly irrelevant. And all the while, in the rapidly growing mess that I’m ‘cleverly’ creating, I rather quickly begin to realize that the...

It is not for me to judge another man’s life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone.

I protect myself by refusing to know myself.

The subsistence mentality of a person is a prison in which his personal joy is detained. If you want to live in joy, you don’t live for yourself alone. Live for others too!

The beginning of thought is in disagreement – not only with others but also with ourselves.

Everybody was worried after the stroke, but he seemed fine and was his normal self.