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“Unless the Self is known, the power of the Self (swasatta) cannot arise.”
“From so much self-revising, Ive destroyed myself. From so much self-thinking, Im now my thoughts and not I”
“A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.”
“You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.”
“Gaze into the fire, into the clouds, and as soon as the inner voices begin to speak... surrender to them. Don't ask first whether it's permitted, or would please your teachers or father or some god...”
“I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?”
“The woman I was yesterday, introduced me to the woman I am today; which makes me very excited about meeting the woman I will become tomorrow. ”
“You don't know how to talk to people you don't like. Don't love, really. You can't live in the world with such strong likes and dislikes.”
“There's always the option of deciding for yourself who you are and what you'll become.”
“When you're rotten about yourself, you become rotten to everyone else, even thoseyou love.”
“[T]hou canst not think worse of me than I do of myself.”
“What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.”
“I have no way of knowing whether the events that I am about to narrate are effects or causes.”
“Perhaps, as we say in America, I wanted to find myself. This is an interesting phrase, not current as far as I know in the language of any other people, which certainly does not mean what it says b...”
“Can't get away from your own self.”
“Wherever you go, there you are.”
“He was assaulting the world by assaulting himself.”
“Who you are is always right.”
“She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.”
“As he watched Joe stand, blazing, on the fire escape, Sammy felt an ache in his chest that turned out to be, as so often occurs when memory and desire conjoin with a transient effect of weather, th...”
