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What the neurology tells us is that the self consists of many components, and the notion of one unitary self may well be an illusion.
Only listen to the observations of the enlightened because everyone else is self-centered, egocentric and bound by the net of desire.
Hopelessness sets in, when a man is bound up in his shame -- living small, within that closed horizon of fantasy and self-absorption.
How often are the perpetrators of hate-crimes discovered to be self-loathing? Valued individuals do not strike out against strangers.
Censorship is the commonest social blasphemy because it is mostly concealed, built into us by indolence, self-interest and cowardice.
Emotions are there to enjoy life; but they are not used in self-reflection because they inhibit a proper reflection. They gunk us up.
Why should self-indulgent nonsense - whatever its professed political orientation - be lauded as the height of scholarly achievement?
And that's where the whole trouble is. We're too much alike to understand each other because we don't even understand our own selves.
It is the leader's role to lift followers out of their everyday selves up to a higher level of awareness, motivation, and commitment.
The greater a child’s terror, and the earlier it is experienced, the harder it becomes to develop a strong and healthy sense of self.
That is the ego which rises and sinks periodically. But you exist always. That which lies beyond the ego is consciousness - the Self.
It is obvious that the only interesting people are interested people, and to be completely interested is to have forgotten about "I".
A geek is a person, male or female, with an abiding, obsessive, self-effacing, even self-destroying love for something besides status
Self-body hate, like any hate or other strong negative emotion, contributes to unneeded weight gain by triggering junk-food cravings.
Movements toward freedom and the self-respect that comes from something other than what people think is their most important feature.
Caring for friends opens the heart, and gifts us with the privilege of sharing the fruits of our self-imposed and necessary solitude.
The camel has evolved to be relatively self-sufficient. On the other hand, the camel has not evolved to smell good. Neither has Perl.
Self-control is completely necessary for increasing and raising your attention level. One of the places you practice that is at work.
You can then further enhance the process of writing by forming the clear intention that your Higher Self will influence your writing.
Humanity was drawn to turmoil and self-destruction as inevitably as the earth was drawn to complete its annual revolution of the sun.
The only virtue on which I pride myself is my self-doubt; when a writer loses her self-doubt, the time has come to lay aside her pen.
The True Self is not our creation, but God's. It is the self we are in our depths. It is our capacity for divinity and transcendence.
If nothing is self-evident, nothing can be proved. Similarly if nothing is obligatory for its own sake, nothing is obligatory at all.
To talk about realizing the Self is discontinuous because there is nothing to realize but the Self. There is nothing but realization.
That to this mountain-daisy's self were known The beauty of its star-shaped shadow, thrown On the smooth surface of this naked stone!
When can our brain's innate objectivity begin to flourish? Only when our inappropriate Self-centered subjectivity begins to dissolve.
The needs of babies and toddlers were constant and drained the life out my sense of self and my familys relationship with each other.
Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.
I do realize, however, while striving to be your true self to the level I do, there will push back, resistance, and misunderstanding.
I'd love to teach a self-defense class for ladies, specifically about running away from psychos in masks chasing them with chainsaws.
It is equally easy, initially, for either a man or a woman to attain enlightenment, what we would call liberation or self-realization.
Generally, people who are not self-realized are full of themselves. One who is self-realized sees that the whole world is full of one.
Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
Humility - the discipline of putting others ahead of self, the choice to value others above self - is, at its core, a matter of faith.
He had the superficial kindness of a good-humored, self-satisfied nature, that fears no rivalry, and has encountered no contrarieties.
While you are alive, your worldly self is like a collector of benefits from Allah's bounties, which come to you from myriads of hands.
Love is willing self-sacrifice for the good of another that does not require reciprocation or that the person being loved is deserving
Self-interest is an inexhaustible source of convenient illusions. The number of beings who wish to see truly is extraordinarily small.
A vital part of the happiness formula is self-discipline. Whoever conquers himself knows deep happiness that fills the heart with joy.
Man is the weak being who, in spite of all his self-importance and pride of wealth and capital, is vanquished by the smallest microbe.
Growing up in the public spotlight and having insecurities like every other girl, I really know what it's like to feel self-conscious.
Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.
Scientology always makes me think of that movie 'V' where that woman takes off her mask of human flesh to reveal her true, alien self.
"Getting away from it all," many people want that, and of course ultimately the only way to get away from it all is to go within, now.
A self-willed man obeys a different law, the one law I, too, hold absolutely sacred the human law in himself, his own individual will.
All that a guru can tell you is: 'My dear Sir, you are quite mistaken about yourself. You are not the person you take yourself to be.'
There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.
The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.
[Self-defense is] justly called the primary law of nature, so it is not, neither can it be in fact, taken away by the laws of society.
Integrity is the courage and self-discipline to cooperate and initiate according to the Divine, which you know in your heart as Truth.