If everybody spent enough time worrying about their own goddamn selves, no one would have to worry about anyone else.
Oh, people get used to so many things," said Vadesh, "if only they give them selves a chance.
Our culture places a very high premium on self-expression, but is relatively disinterested in producing "selves" that are worth expressing.
In all honesty, we all want our fantasy selves to be the best people. We all think in a time of crisis, we will react heroically and with humanity.
Now comes the hour to choose between being acceptable to others or being acceptable to one's own self, for we must kill our true selves off in order to survive.
I really believe that it is honesty about our imperfect selves that makes everyone do better and be better.
There are still people who believe in that and wake up every day believing it's possible, and invest their whole selves in that.
Truth is not a matter of fact but a state of harmony with progress and hope. Enveloped only in its wings will we ever soar to the promise of our greater selves.
It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitio...
None of us whether Men or Women but have so good an Opinion of our own Conduct as to believe we are fit, if not to direct others, at least to govern our selves.
Much of the time, we're transfixed by all of the ways we can reflect ourselves into the world. And we can barely find the time to reflect deeply back in on our own selves.
The farther we peer into space, the more we realize that the nature of the universe cannot be understood fully by inspecting spiral galaxies or watching distant supernovas. It lies deeper. It involves our very selves.
Maybe I should just lie quietly inside you while our old selves slip in and out of the back rooms of the soul.
Let us choose life and love, and happily use our selves up in loving service to one another.
By reshaping or decorating our outer selves, we express our inner sense of self: 'I like that' becomes 'I'm like that.'
To listen is very hard, because it asks of us so much interior stability that we no longer need to prove ourselves by speeches, arguments, statements, or declarations. True listeners no longer have an inner need to make their presence known. They are...
May we all soon go about as our real selves and take joy in it, saying, yes, yes, to whatever we are.
The thing I love most about my job is watching people age backward, becoming more lively and energetic as they free themselves from situations that are toxic to their essential selves.
We are troubled by having two selves, the inner and the outer. The outer one is rather dull and lets great things go by.
Grownups don't pay it much attention because they can't imagine anything more majestic to a child than their own selves and so confused dependance for reverence.
This is your karma. You do not understand now, but you will understand later. The source of pain is within your own larger expression of being.
