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A self-advertising writer is always a self-extinguished writer.Collection: Self
I don't feel like I'm self-conscious about what's next. I don't care. I know what it's like to be ignored, and I know what it's like not to be.Collection: Self
If we understand the revolutionary transformations caused by new media, we can anticipate and control them; but if we continue in our self-induced subliminal trance, we will be their slaves.Collection: Self
There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensualCollection: Self
Human beings seem to be far more autonomous and self-governed than modern psychological theory allows for.Collection: Self
One way to overcome our natural self-centeredness is to try to see things from other people's perspectives.Collection: Self
…Those who’ve marred their appearance in any way by their actions in life aren’t forced to witness that marring. If they were, they’d become self-conscious and be unable to concentrate on improving themselves.Collection: Self
This is our true wealth: the riches we take with us, the joy we carry inside, the support we learn to give ourselves, and the self-loving that flows as a natural by-product of that support.Collection: Self
The Republicans have a high Beady-Eyed Self-Righteous Scary Borderline Loon Quotient, as evidenced by Phyllis Schlafly, Pat Robertson, the entire state of Utah, etc.Collection: Self
Now, here is the point about the self: it is insatiable. It is always, always hankering. It is what you might call rapacious to a fault. The great flaming mouth to the thing is never in this world going to be stuff full.Collection: Self
The more isolated and disconnected we are, the more shattered and distorted our self-identity. We are not healthy when we are alone. We find ourselves when we connect to others. Without community we don't know who we are... When we live outside of healthy community, we not only lose others. We lose ourselves...Who we understand ourselves to be is dramatically affected for better or worse by those we hold closest to us.Collection: Self
I find sometimes it's easy to be myself, sometimes I find it's better to be somebody else.Collection: Self
The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .Collection: Self
It is in vain to oppose constitutional barriers to the impulse of self-preservation. It is worse than in vain; because it plants in the Constitution itself necessary usurpations of power, every precedent of which is a germ of unnecessary and multiplied repetitions.Collection: Self
Apart from a very close circle of friends, few people know my true self, and it's normal, I never put it into my music.Collection: Self
The place where even the slightest trace of the 'I' does not exist, alone is Self.Collection: Self
Grace is within you. If it were external, it would be useless.Collection: Self
He whose pure mind turns inward and searches whence does this 'I' arise, knows the Self and merges in You, the Lord, as a river into the sea.Collection: Self
For talking monkeys to speak of truth is hubris of the highest degree. Where is it writ large that talking monkeys should be able to model the cosmos? If a sea urchin or a racoon were to propose to you that it had a viable truth about the universe, the absurdity of that assertion would be self-evident, but in our case we make an exception.Collection: Self
I love to read. My education is self-inflictedCollection: Self
A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them.Collection: Self
The world was reduced to the surface of her skin and her inner self was safe from all bitterness.Collection: Self
One of the ideals [Margaret Thatcher] grew up with was self-denial and postponement of gratification, and yet she went about to create a greedy, short-term society. It is a paradox.Collection: Self
We even refuse to be our true self with God- and then wonder why we lack intimacy with him.Collection: Self
We are in our Self. We are not in the world.Collection: Self
Muhammad teaches us the knowledge of our own selves, and of our own people. He cleans us up-morally, mentally and spirituallyCollection: Self
You have to have a thick enough skin to cope with the criticism. I'm very self-critical and I have a lot of friends that I trust who are film directors and writers and people in my profession.Collection: Self
Meekness, the subtraction of self, reduces the multiplication of words.Collection: Self
Trying to observe the slow shift from self-centeredness to empathy is like trying to watch grass grow.Collection: Self
My zoology thesis was a functional analysis of the thyroid gland of the three-toed sloth. I chose the sloth because its demeanour - calm, quiet and introspective - did something to soothe my shattered self.Collection: Self
Washington had performed his role to perfection. It was no enough that a leader look the part; by Washington's rules, he must know how to act it with self-command and precision.Collection: Self
Humor is the opposite of all self-admiration and self-praise.Collection: Self
Without a vision people and the church become self-centered. People start finding fault with one another and the church self-destructs.Collection: Self
In zazen, one is one's present self, what one was, and what one will be, all at once.Collection: Self
To be infatuated with the power of one's own intellect is an accident which seldom happens but to those who are remarkable for the want of intellectual power. Whenever Nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.Collection: Self
Our identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are.Collection: Self
The world is not outside you.Collection: Self
'I Am' is the name of God, God is none other than the Self.Collection: Self
How does one get rid of fear? Ramana: What is fear? It is only a thought. If there is anything besides the Self there is reason to fear. Who sees things separate from the Self? First the ego arises and sees objects as external. If the ego does not rise, the Self alone exists and there is nothing external. For anything external to oneself implies the existence of the seer within. Seeking it there will eliminate doubt and fear. Not only fear, all other thoughts centred round the ego will disappear along with it.Collection: Self
If the ego is not regularly and repeatedly dissolved in the unbounded hyperspace of the Transcendent Other, there will always be slow drift away from the sense of self as part of nature’s larger whole. The ultimate consequence of this drift is the fatal ennui that now permeates Western Civilization.Collection: Self
How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?Collection: Self
What I've learned about my self over the years is that I'm pretty restless. If I multitask it's probably because I have difficulty just focusing on one thing.Collection: Self
The self is known to every one but not clearly. You always exist.Collection: Self
The search "Who am I"...ends in the annihilation of the illusory "I" and the Self which remains over will be as clear as a gooseberry in the palm of one's hand.Collection: Self
Because truth is exceedingly subtle and serene, the bliss of the Self can manifest only in a mind rendered subtle and steady by assiduous meditation.Collection: Self
What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.Collection: Self
A remarkable memoir that's packed with anecdotes, advice and humor, all while maintaining a high level of dignity and self-awareness.Collection: Self
Every other religion is a salvation by self, Christianity is a salvation by Christ.Collection: Self