Quotes of: Authentic-self Keyword

To acquire the full consciousness of self is to know oneself so different from others that no longer feels allied with men except by purely animal contacts: nevertheless, among souls of this degree, there is an ideal fraternity based on differences,-...

The Book of Masks

The beliefs and behaviour of the Restoration reflect the theories of society put forward by Thomas Hobbes in The Leviathan, which was written in exile in Paris and published in 1651. Like many texts of the time, The Leviathan is an allegory. It recal...

The Routledge History of Literature in English: Britain and Ireland

Three days a week she helped at the Manor Nursing Home, where people proved their keenness by reciting received analyses of current events. All the Manor residents watched television day and night, informed to the eyeballs like everyone else and rush...

The Maytrees

What is clear is that Scripture requires both head and heart, and you need to see it not just as a text but as the very words of God. This will encourage you to pay close attention to the very words he uses, but it will also compel you to feast on th...

Note to Self: The Discipline of Preaching to Yourself

If you surrender your self-worth to someone who doesn’t see your true value, what happens when someone comes along who wants to give you what you’re worth instead of what you’ll settle for? The bottom line is this: You’ve got to know your wor...

The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass

Nay, we sometimes proceed so far as to trust in ourselves, and depend on our own power, strength, and abilities. Then it is that God in mere mercy interposes, and breaks us in pieces; humbles, and confounds us, and so empties us of ourselves, that we...

True Christianity

Above all, be at ease, be as natural and spacious as possible. Slip quietly out of the noose of your habitual anxious self, release all grasping, and relax into your true nature. Think of your ordinary emotional, thought-ridden self as a block of ice...

The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying

The only absolute truth is change, and death is the only way to stop change. Life is a series of judgments on changing situations, and no ideal, no belief fits every solution. Yet humans need to believe in something beyond themselves. Perhaps all int...

The Parafaith War

A man needs to feel powerful and respected. Innately within us, as far back as we can remember, we have taught ourselves to grand stand in our abilities to be tough, to conquer, to impress and to win in all aspects of our lives in order to be validat...

A Walk with Prudence

Anybody with leisure can do that who is willing to begin where everything ought to be begun--that is, at the beginning. Nothing worth calling good can or ever will be started full grown. The essential of any good is life, and the very body of created...

Weighed and Wanting

Finally, there was the impediment of his nature. In the secret parts of his peculiar brain, those unhappy and inextricable tangles which he felt at the roots, the boy was disabled by something which we cannot explain. He could not have explained eith...

The Once and Future King

Many veterans feel guilty because they lived while others died. Some feel ashamed because they didn’t bring all their men home and wonder what they could have done differently to save them. When they get home they wonder if there’s something wron...

David Brooks

Self-reflection or autognosis reveals that what is given in consciousness is, first and foremost, integral connectedness and organic unity of all thinking, feeling, and desiring. At the same time, self-reflection reveals that this connected unity is ...

Jose Ortega y Gasset

The only antidote to religious triumphalism is the readiness of communities of faith to permit doubt and self-criticism to play a vital role in the life of Faith.

Cross in Our Context

In spite of her plainness that would have made wallflowers of other women, she radiated a great sense of self-importance.

The Cuckoo's Calling

n the face of a true friend a man sees as it were a second self......

Cicero De Amicitia (On Friendship) And Scipio's Dream

Even dogs know how important it is to hear somebody else breathing.

Confessions of a Self-Help Writer: The Journal of Michael Enzo

prepare your food in keeping with monastic traditions—simple, basic, healthy, balanced.

Cravings: A Catholic Wrestles with Food, Self-Image, and God

Only by emptying ourselves out before God will we find fullness within ourselves.

Cravings: A Catholic Wrestles with Food, Self-Image, and God

In the world union, prosperity is a science, self-interest a new religion, peace is at hand and the future has never looked brighter.

Culpa Innata

Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else.

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook