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“After all, the appeal to stop being yourself, even for a little while, is very great,' he said. 'To escape the cognitive mode of experience, to transcend the accident to one's moment of being. Ther...”
“Writing is an exemplary means to make contact with the whole of the self. What ultimately makes up the self is a collation of personal knowledge derived from physical, mental, and emotional experie...”
“The moment you are more interested and obsessed to others you begin to loose your Self . It's so insane that you again seek others to help find self.”
“Most important, of course, we all care intensely for the narrative of our own life and very much want it to be a good story, with a decent hero.”
“A newcomer to a city should first look for a suitable room for resting at night. After securing the room and keeping the luggage there, he or she may go out for sightseeing. Otherwise it'll be a lo...”
“Despise your heart. I wanted to. I didn't want to grieve anymore, to feel loss or guilt, or worry. I wanted to be hard, calculating. I wanted to be fearless.”
“I felt stifled. Everything I looked at reminded me of myself.”
“Go with your bad self.”
“Be yourself, And take control of your own destiny. There is nothing more disgraceful in life,Than living someone elses life.”
“Hold tight to what is most yourself,Don't squander it, don't let your lifeBe governed by what disturbs you.”
“The Devil loves it when we point fingers at Rome/ other Denominations and forget our very church. ''SELF''. while i scrutinize the Pope and his deeds. Let me trim my lamp. let me wash my robe. let ...”
“In the rare air of that altitude he forgot he was he. One way or another that was the aim of life. Shamans flew outside the self in ecstasy. Other people found love, or causes.”
“The greatest victory a person can have is the victory over himself.”
“The mighty question arises upon us, what is one's own real self? It certainly is not what we think we are and ought to be.”
“I find myself saying briefly and prosaically that it is much more important to be oneself than anything else. Do not dream of influencing other people, I would say, if I knew how to make it sound e...”
“We are inscrutable even to ourselves, I suppose.”
“Often, we tend to wrap ourselves around him so tight that we neglect our mission, our purpose, our calling, sometimes our children and even our God”
“As psychologist Bruce Hood writes in his book The Self Illusion, you have an origin story and a sense that youve traveled from youth to now along a linear path, with ups and downs that ultimately m...”
“I simply believe that some part of the human Self or Soul is not subject to the laws of space and time.”
“Appreciate the people & good fortune within everyday life, this, is the quality of life, experienced.”
