Quotes of: Authentic-self Keyword

The surgeons' market is imaginary, since there is nothing wrong with women's faces or bodies that social change won't cure; so the surgeons depend for their income on warping female self-perception and multiplying female self-hatred.

The Beauty Myth

I actually feel quite self-indulgent at the moment, telling you all about me, me, me. (...) On the other hand, you're a human -you should understand self obsession.

The Book Thief

Until the ego dissolves or evolves to become one with our true self, we remain slaves of our own egos.

The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership

Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion.

Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging

Man is like an island set in isolation in a fathomless sea enveloped by darkness, saying that the loneliness his self knows is so utterly absolute because even he knows not his self completely.

Islam and Secularism

I believe in mess, tears, pain, self-abasement, loss of self-respect, nakedness. Not caring doesn’t seem much different from not loving.

The Real Thing: A Play

Her behaviors turn her psychic pain, which she fears is not legitimate, into physical pain, which is indisputably real".

Sensing the Self: Women's Recovery from Bulimia

Don't think of your website as a self-promotion machine, think of it as a self-invention machine.

Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

They implicitly trust that their thoughts, beliefs, and feelings are their own, and fail to recognize that they may be “channeling” someone else’s thoughts and feelings.

The Self Under Siege: A Therapeutic Model for Differentiation

People must come to the understanding that they do not have a fixed identity. They have the power to identify and alter features of their personalities that they find negative or unpleasant.

The Self Under Siege: A Therapeutic Model for Differentiation

In order for people to live their own lives and fulfill their destiny, they must differentiate themselves from destructive environmental influences.

The Self Under Siege: A Therapeutic Model for Differentiation

Differentiation is a universal struggle that all human beings face if they wish to fully develop themselves as individuals.

The Self Under Siege: A Therapeutic Model for Differentiation

Excessive self-criticism is a bad habit and extraordinarily self-destructive. Don't be your own worst enemy!

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Multiple sclerosis is a chronic disease affecting the central nervous system (CNS: the brain, spinal cord, and optic nerves). It is not contagious.

Multiple Sclerosis: A Self Care Guide to Wellness

The self is the class (not the collection) of the experiences (or autopsychological states). The self does not belong to the expression of the basic experience, but is constructed only on a very high level.

The Logical Structure of the World and Pseudoproblems in Philosophy

I sometimes pray not for self-knowledge in general but for just so much self knowledge at the moment as I can bear and use at the moment; the little daily dose.

Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer

Having inner peace means committing to letting go of self-criticism and self-doubt.

Living with Joy: Keys to Personal Power and Spiritual Transformation

The solution to entrapment in the narcissistic hothouse of self is to not relinquish autobiographical writing, but to expand the self by bringing one's curiosity to interface with more and more history and the present world.

To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction

The key to seeing the world's soul, and in the process wakening our own, is to get over the confusion by which we think that fact is real and imagination is illusion.

Original Self: Living with Paradox and Originality

Do your fears warn of external dangers? Or, are they the kind that keep you from becoming more of your true self?

Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road

Love is the only constant, the only reality, and when you accept and understand that you will know it.

Relationships for Life: How Conscious Love Transcends Crisis, Pain and Self Avoidance