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.

From human problems come human solutions, which in turn spawn inspiration, creativity, insight and enlightenment. Without life’s problems, life would become stagnant, dull and boring.

If a band posts restrictions as to what materials can be put on the archive, there is a self-appointed sense of making sure the that the band’s wishes are observed,

Truly, nothing in the world has so occupied my thoughts as this I, this riddle, the fact I am alive, that I am separated and isolated from all others, that I am Siddhartha! And about...

Looking back, it was amazing. He was his ebullient self. He had been through a hard place, but he was free flowing.

When my turn on the program comes, I am not nervous at all—because all this is happening out of time, out of space. I am, for a moment, a figure of my own fantasy, and...

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...

Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure.

Our abilities and possibilities are at one and the same time very limited and quite infinite dependent on the depth of our relationship to our ‘self’, others and life itself.

Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help BookorHow you can survive in the Cosmos about which you know more and more while knowing less and less about yourself, this despite 10,000 self-help books, 100,000 psychotherapists,...

The key to failure is, lack of self discipline.

I depart as air, I shake my white locks at the runway sun, I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love. If you want me again look for me under...

The sage is sick of being sick (Tao Te Ching)

Betrayals that make your soul scream so loud you wonder why no one else hears it. In the end, we are all alone in that private hell. But life isn’t about learning to forgive those...

holding the eveningtremblingly close to mei weepinto the sun lettingthe burdenof hopelift off my chesti realizethis is what it meansto be free.

If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you.

To think is to have doubt….yet even thinking will bring you to “no thought”….eventually.

You can only get outside yourself by looking inside.

‪#‎TRUTH‬ ‪#‎BEREAL‬We must be ruthlessly honest with and about Self..Self Assessments are often inflated or deflated or just imaginary..

Maybe that was one of the problems with these men who lived forever, they’d built up an immunity or resistance to affection. Perhaps because when everyone they knew and loved continued to die, they realized...

You still have only one self and one identity. However, self, identity and personality are not things, they are not objects, and they certainly are not rigid. Instead, they are biological processes built within the...

To make yourself something less than you can be – that too is a form of suicide.

I have travelled many places but still I find that perhaps the greatest journey is through one’s own mind.

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.