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it is rather depressing to think that one will still be oneself when one is dead, but I dare say one won't be so critical then.
Transformation occurs when existing solutions, assumed truths and past decisions are exposed as unrealistic and self-defeating.
Self-defense is not just a set of techniques; it’s a state of mind, and it begins with the belief that you are worth defending.
No matter how much you want to be self-sufficient and alone, there is a natural human impulse to need something more than that.
Very few people love others for what they are; rather, they love what they lend them, their own selves, their own idea of them.
We must have a spirit of power towards the enemy, a spirit of love towards men, and a spirit of self-control towards ourselves.
It is self-evident that any and all paths must be open to a researcher during the actual course of his [or her] investigations.
Some models of self-control are able to achieve their serenity easily because the soul fires never burn brightly to begin with.
It's amazing to me how many people who profess to be spiritual seekers are self-seekers, and how few of them ever consider God.
The dynamo of our economic system is self-interest which may range from mere petty greed to admirable types of self-expression.
You will eat not to satisfy your palate but your hunger. A self-indulgent man lives to eat; a self-restrained man eats to live.
If you just develop your psychic ability and don't learn psychic self-defense, you become more sensitive, open, and vulnerable.
People loose tension when they run. The feeling of self respect will almost always increase. You accept yourself a little more.
Time is the great doctor of your life. You have to respect the doctor. The devouring self is the patient. Listen to the doctor.
Self-mutilation is a frightening barrier that keeps us from seeing a person who is lost, in pain, and in desperate need of help.
When you're at peace with yourself and love your self, it is virtually impossible to do things to yourself that are destructive.
Mankind is now caught up, as though in a train of gears, at the heart of a continually accelerating vortex of self-totalisation.
The feeling of being valuable - 'I am a valuable person'- is essential to mental health and is a cornerstone of self-discipline.
It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.
Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all.
We may experience a realization of our true Self the first time we meditate, but most often the process of awakening is gradual.
Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am not alone.
Self Realization is finding That which is beyond even superconsciousness itself, beyond the mind-timeless, causeless, spaceless.
[E]mpathy - not squishy self-serving conflict avoidance - is the hand-maiden, not the enemy, of reason and intellectual inquiry.
I'm actually quite self-sufficient, so it might look as if there isn't room for anyone in my life. That isn't entirely the case.
Virtual Self' was me trying to paint a picture of a very foggy, distorted memory that I had of electronic music on the internet.
Self-seeking is the gate by which a soul departs from peace; and total abandonment to the will of God, that by which it returns.
The more we sympathize with excellence, the more we go out of self, the more we love, the broader and deeper is our personality.
Can it then be that what we call the 'self' is fluid and elastic? It evolves, strikes a different balance with every new breath.
I don't read reviews, There's no value for me in reading them. Whether they're good or bad, they'll just make me self-conscious.
Drugs have nothing to do with the creation of music. In fact, they are dumb and self indulgent. Kind of like sucking your thumb!
An artist who is too self-centered is liable to exhibit faults he abhors: carelessness, callousness, and even downright cruelty.
Sad times May follow your tracks, Bad times May bar you from Saks, Add times When Satan in slacks Breaks down your self control.
Nanda broke down every barrier and won his way to freedom not by brag, not by bluster, but by the purest form of self-suffering.
Knowledge is an affair of symbols and is, all too often, a hindrance to wisdom, the uncovering of the self from moment to moment
You know, whenever I was presented with a challenge that brought up feelings of fear or self-doubt, I almost always said, 'Yes'.
The goal of becoming more consistent with your core authentic self is a much stronger motivator than "I need to lose 30 pounds."
Dreaming is one thing, and working towards the dream is one thing, but working with expectations in mind is very self-defeating.
Blessed is the healthy nature; it is the coherent, sweetly co-operative, not incoherent, self-distracting, self-destructive one!
I don't read thrillers, romance or mystery, and I don't read self-help books because I don't believe in shortcuts and loopholes.
I work in a medium where I get to be totally invisible and I get great pleasure from that, being a pretty self-conscious person.
I seem to have the blind self-acceptance of the eccentric who can't conceive that his eccentricities are not clearly understood.
Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
Frankly, I have always dreaded writing - there always seemed to be pain involved, unpleasant self-examination and a lot of fear.
No man would, I think, exchange his existence with any other man, however fortunate. We had as lief not be, as not be ourselves.
The black church often has reinforced certain self images that are damaging to black peoples' beauty, black peoples' confidence.
O Lord, self-renunciation is not the work of one day, nor children's sport; yea, rather in this word is included all perfection.
To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.
To start from the self and try to understand all things is delusion. To let the self be awakened by all things is enlightenment.
Whatever pretended causes we may blame our afflictions upon, it is often nothing but self-interest and vanity that produce them.