He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.
There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
The hunger for attention is usually a result of low self-esteem and the lack of unconditional self-love.
Self is found in knowledge, devotion and concentration, in integrity, purity, moderation, self-control and intelligence.
Karma is only in space time and causality. Your real self resides non-locally.
Change Yourself” doesn't imply to be like everyone else, but to comply with everything that helps to be your true self.
A complete life may be one ending in so full identification with the non-self that there is no self to die.
To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one's self.... And to venture in the highest is precisely to be conscious of one's self.
Most of the tools from medieval times were extensions of the physical self. Tools are now extensions of the mental self.
What could begin to deny self, if there were not something in man different from self?
Each person has to face this challenge – you must search inside yourself. The props – surroundings, interactions, rituals, customs and superstitions – are just palliatives. You have to achieve your balance on your own; it has to come from the s...
The ego isn't a bad thing. If we didn't develop a strong ego, a strong sense of self, we wouldn't be able to relate to and engage with the extremely powerful and archetypal forces (both dark and light) of the unconscious. If we don't have a strongly ...
Devotion is a spiritual act of egoless surrender. When the Self blinds the spirit too tightly, then devotion expands the blinding by lifting us beyond ourselves. We get the powerful lesson that the Self survives even without constant attention.
Marxism teaches that exploitation and degradation somehow produce resistance and revolution. It's been hard to say why. What I've learned from women's experience with sexuality is that exploitation and degradation produce grateful complicity in excha...
Whatever you may have heard, self-publishing is not a short cut to anything. Except maybe insanity. Self-publishing, like every other kind of publishing, is hard work. You don’t wake up one morning good at it. You have to work for that.
Strauss admits to being obsessed by his mother's rejection, and with the resultant rents in self-esteem. The Game echoes with disturbingly abusive comments leveled at his adolescent self, a self he feels was unacceptable. With bravado, he expresses r...
Among the values of meditation is that it carries consciousness down to a deeper level, thus letting man live from his centre, not his surface alone. The result is that the physical sense-reactions do not dominate his outlook wholly, as they do an an...
Intuition is a sense of knowing how to act spontaneously, without needing to know why. The why question leads to indecision, anxiety, caution and self-limitation. There are all responses which originate in fear-based emotions.
Courage rides on the coattails of confidence.
I was a very confident child. I knew I wanted to be an actress from the age of 5.
Let your confidence reflect your contentedness.
