In a swamp, as in meditation, you begin to glimpse how elusive, how inherently insubstantial, how fleeting our thoughts are, our identities. There is magic in this moist world, in how the mind lets go,...

Some care is needed in using Descartes’ argument. “I think, therefore I am” says rather more than is strictly certain. It might seem as though we are quite sure of being the same person to-day...

We become full human agents, capable of understanding ourselves, and hence of defining our identity, through our acquisition of rich human languages of expression.

Each action we take is an act of self-expression. We often think of large-scale or important deeds as being indications of our real selves, but even how we sharpen a pencil can reveal something about...

E sempre é bom termos consciência de que dentro de nós há alguém que tudo sabe, tudo quer e age melhor do que nós mesmos

Not too long ago thousands spent their lives as recluses to find spiritual vision in the solitude of nature. Modern man need not become a hermit to achieve this goal, for it is neither ecstasy...

I think there must be probably different types of suicides. I’m not one of the self-hating ones. The type of like “I’m shit and the world’d be better off without poor me” type that says...

There is no other you on earth, that’s why you’re the best

Words are God’s gift to mend a broken soul.

[T]he Enneagram is, at its most abstract, a universal mandala of the self—a symbol of each of us.

We can never see what we never question, for we who escapes, blinds us

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...

Au milieu de l’hiver, j’apprenais enfin qu’il y avait en moi un été invincible.

If you can’t please yourself some of the time, how do you expect to please people all the time? Not everyone is going to appreciate you for your efforts and deeds.

I ached with loss that I’d never allowed myself to feel. As if I was leaving something important behind. And that something was me.

Sophie said to me once that she was glad she had been scarred. She said that whoever loved her now would love her true self, and not her pretty face. This is your true self,...

And when you reach the place where this understanding overtakes you; that there is no one in the world that will ever love you with the force and power you can love yourself with. That...

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

Maybe it was better to be who he thought I was than who I thought I was.

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...