Enlightenment is not about cocooning one’s self, but about integrating more fully with both your self and life.
An animal will conquer others. A Spirit-filled man conquers himself – self-discipline, self-control.
Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?
Self-esteem is a powerful force within each of us... Self-esteem is the experience that we are appropriate to life and to the requirements of life.
In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.
If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
Homeschoolers are the ultimate do-it-yourselfers. They are self-motivated and self-directed, independent-minded and creative. They are not content to turn their education of their children over to the government.
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.
Men are self-confident because they grow up identifying with super-heroes. Women have bad self-images because they grow up identifying with Barbie.
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 ...
Your core, lying deep within you, is what makes you what you are. Some call it the soul, the Higher Self, the true self, the being and so on. The name is unimportant once you realize that you are more than your looks and outward appearance.
