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We know so little about each other. We lie mostly submerged, like ice floes, with our visible social selves projecting only cool and white.
Religion is something people do together to face urgent problems and to resolve them by appealing to truths that seem self-evident to them.
The unmet need that can get met right now is the need to be whole, to be both your magnificent, divine self and your imperfect, human self.
The Self when it appears behind the universe is called God. The same Self when it appears behind this little universe-the body-is the soul.
I'm on a constant path of self-discovery and change. I'm trying to become a better person, a nicer person. I love therapy - it's brilliant.
Forgiveness happens naturally when you see that it has no purpose other than to strengthen a false sense of self, to keep the ego in place.
Is it possible to covet a much longer life for one's self and be as devoted to the well-being of the next generation? It's a long argument.
It's almost as if the way you imagine my dead self says more about you than it says about either the person I was or the whatever I am now.
What we are seeking to do is not melt the map of America. We are seeking to melt the self, the solid form that we consider ourselves to be.
Running will make you stronger, more disciplined & clear headed all of which will improve your professional output & expand your self-faith
I have great faith in optimism as a guiding principle, if only because it offers us the opportunity of creating a self-fulfilling prophecy.
When you realize that life isn't fair, you don't act out, you don't get overly wasted, you don't get self-indulgent. You just move forward.
And long shall timorous fancy see The painted chief, and pointed spear, And Reason's self shall bow the knee To shadows and delusions here.
The foolish being who lives making even the slightest distinction between the supreme Self and his own self will always be subject to fear.
Our culture places a very high premium on self-expression, but is relatively disinterested in producing "selves" that are worth expressing.
To rejoice in temporal comforts is dangerous, to rejoice in self is foolish, to rejoice in sin is fatal, but to rejoice in God is heavenly.
There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.
The main thing I don't like about myself is an absurd level of self-consciousness that makes any sort of social encounter an ordeal for me.
Pride, like the magnet, constantly points to one object, self; but, unlike the magnet, it has no attractive pole, but at all points repels.
One thing I have seen, regardless of the method of aprehenesion of the dimensional plane one is in, is self-giving and how effective it is.
Unless we learn the lesson of self-appreciation and practice it, we shall spend our lives imitating other people and deprecating ourselves.
Self-exposure is commendable in art only when it is of a quality and complexity that allows other people to learn about themselves from it.
The greatest force of personal liberation is the decision to widen our circle of compassion, moving from focus on self to focus on service.
Fame is damaging when people become reliant on it for their sense of self, and their identity, when fame is linked to how you see yourself.
Friends of my youth, a last adieu! haply some day we meet again; Yet ne'er the self-same men shall meet; the years shall make us other men.
Self-giving means that we have to understand the nature of giving. When most people give, they give expecting a return on their investment.
The appointment [in Harvard] gave me economic safety, writerly support, and intellectual self-respectplus eight months to myself every year.
The great lesson to learn of life is the need of giving out from the abundance of one's self in order to be ever abundant within one's self.
I think if you spend much time dwelling on influence you can get self-conscious about every line you write. That's a great way to freeze up.
The self-sufficient does not pray, the self-satisfied will not pray, the self-righteous cannot pray. No man is greater than his prayer life.
Your enemy is still yourself. You don't have enemies. They may be self-styled. I have plenty of self-styled enemies. I don't wish them harm.
I think that sometimes quitting is exactly the right thing to do. Quitting something that's not working requires self-awareness and courage.
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.
They are denied access to the more advanced techniques of releasing the kundalini energy, which bring about quantum leaps in self-awareness.
I understand maybe some people are more impressionable than my hard, cynical self, but maybe they need to figure out how to be less of that.
No matter what god or doctrine you believe in, if you become attached to it, your belief will be based more or less on a self-centered idea.
What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one is food for worms.
Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique - these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation .
The challenge to America is to extend to Asia the defensive shield of American power in forms consonant with Asian freedom and self-respect.
A lot of people use social media to share mundane things or for self-glorification. I try to use it to share interesting things with people.
As a self-respecting dude, I'd never believed in fairy tales, but in that moment, I did. I'd found my angel to live happily-ever-after with.
Self-interest is hostile to the common good, but enlightened self-interest is not. And this is the best key to the meaning of enlightenment.
It's really hard to be a servant leader because we come into this world as a baby in a self-survival mode. Life is a journey toward service.
You know, your species [humans] has the most amazing capacity for self-deception, matched only by its ingenuity in trying to destroy itself.
A Falsehood is, in one sense, a dead thing; but too often it moves about, galvanized by self-will, and pushes the living out of their seats.
The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also.
Given the genocidal belligerence of Iranian threats against Israel, it is hard to take issue with Israel's right to preemptive self-defense.
All we really want in the end is to be connected once again with the Truth of our being, to realize what it is that wears this mask of self.
Meditation is a process of liquefying the self temporarily and then allowing the self to rebind. The ice melts and then it comes back again.
To benefit by others' killing and to delude oneself into the belief that one is being very religions and nonviolent is sheer self-deception.