I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them.

There were times when it seemed the different parts of him where not all under the same management.

The more severely he struggles to hold on to the primal face-to-face relation with God, the more tenuous this becomes, until in the end the relation to God Himself threatens to become a relation to...

The proposal to have self-rule in either side of Kashmir may forever remain a point for discussion in the back channel diplomacy between India and Pakistan.

This was all of it, no doubt, the strange passing feeling that had come to me in the boat. Age. Vanity. The impossibility of accepting the new versions of oneself that life kept offering. The...

Byron: The luxuries of this place have made me soft.The metal point’s gone from my pen, there’s nothing left but the feather.Gutman:That may be true.But what can you do about it?Byron:Make a departure.Gutman:From yourself?Byron:From my...

The self may be extinguished, but there are many selves and the Will creates them.

Never delete but save the numbers of your enemies.. so that it helps you avoid them better.

We throw away real people searching for the “perfect” person the same way that we throw ourselves away searching for our “perfect” self.

There is only one you. Stop trying to devalue yourself by trying to be a copy of someone else.

I don’t judge people. It blurs out the center of my attention,my focus, myself.

Maybe it’s not about the journey but rather the way you imagine the journey when you read a book.

Don’t try to tell me what I am because I know what I am not

We can see Spirit made visible when people are kind to one another, especially when it’s a really busy person, like you, taking care of a needy, annoying, neurotic person, like you.

One should always make constant efforts to seek such a Guru, who can lead him to the path of self-realization.

When life gets rough, never think you have failed… allow your self a quality of emotion and introspection. It is called turning inwards. When you observe and examine your mental and emotional state, from your...

To be ‘one’ in one’s own hands is to be ‘one.’ To be ‘one’ in the hands of God is to be ‘one’ that is far too vast to be counted.

Poor Father, I see his final exploration. He arrives at the new place, his hair risen in astonishment, his mouth and eyes dumb. His toe scuffs a soft storm of sand, he kneels and his...

O verdadeiro ofício de cada um era apenas chegar até si mesmo.

The 2 extremes, neither one worse than the other: the result of bad religion is self-loathing and violence; the result of bad spirituality is self-worship and narcissism.

A gentle answer turns away wrath.

being self-reliant doesn’t justify becoming selfish

To become what one is, one must not have the faintest notion of what one is… The whole surface of consciousness – for consciousness -is- a surface – must be kept clear of all great...

I see things in windows and I say to myself that I want them. I want them because I want to belong. I want to be liked by more people, I want to be held...

The finer natures were those that shone at the larger times.

My life is one long obstacle course with me as the chief obstacle.

Because you believed In yourselfYour tiny selfBecause you knewThere is no greater accomplishmentThan making someone love you

There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character.

I figure the more people think I’m just mildly weird, the less likely they are to know how weird I really am.

Within the depths of authenticity lives integrity; waiting for our return. When we arrive, we are met with effortless joy, abundant living, peace and wholeness–nothing lacking, nothing broken. This is soul equanimity, the state of...

How many yous have you been?How many,Lined up inside,Each killing the last?

transformed” her into a cheerleader by the end of the show. I was just wondering: what if she liked field hockey better?

keeping a balance with soul – is a romance with self

We are not of what we feel or believe to do, we are of what we do or fail to do.

At sixteen I was stupid, confused and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self-confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. Who would have supposed that maturity is only a...

To ‘know Thyself’ is considered quite an accomplishment.

Creating Identity

I wondered how far I should turn out faithful to that ideal conception of one’s own personality every man sets up for himself secretly.

We self-destructed in so many phases. The free throws, the turnovers. We couldn’t handle the ball. Just things like that. We didn’t get any breaks (from the officials) but we shot ourselves in the foot,...

I make me. At 18, I decided I wasn’t going to have an unconstructed self ever. I was going to be the composer, the designer, the architect of me. It’s been really fun.

As the sun, revealer of all objects to the seer, is not harmed by the sinful eye, nor by the impurities of the objects it gazes on, so the one Self, dwelling in all, is...

I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise,Regardless of others, ever regardful of others,Maternal as well as paternal, a child as well as a man,Stuffed with the stuff that...

I’m quite aware of my differences. I wouldn’t classify them as weird

Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.

It’s funny, because I had thought, living through those first two months after the night at the lake, that the great crisis was about What I Was or Who I’d Become or What Terrible Thing...

No aacomplishments are important than self realization of self satisfaction.

We seek love in relationships, peace in security, and joy in material things…but these feelings are divine and not dependent on any outer circumstances.

The compass rose is nothing but a star with an infinite number of rays pointing in all directions.It is the one true and perfect symbol of the universe.And it is the one most accurate symbol...

I have to admit it humbly, mon cher compatriote, I was always bursting with vanity. I, I, I is the refrain of my whole life, which could be heard in everything I said. I could...

Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger: well, there is such a thing as food. A duckling wants to swim: well, there is such a thing...