Self Quotes
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Every time you have a major breakthrough in self-knowledge, and see the way the divine works within your own psyche, external events, and interior experiences of the divine, you are transformed in some degree.
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A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
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Many people who excel are self-taught.
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...as far as self-discipline goes, it's still ultimately up to me how well I can push myself. Only I can do that. I just have to keep on going, keep on working, keep on improving.
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Being an atheist is like not owning a TV – completely rational, but best kept to one's self.
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By oneself the evil is done, and it is oneself who suffers: by oneself the evil is not done, and by one's Self one becomes pure.
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Speak only the speech that neither torments self nor does harm to others. That speech is truly well spoken.
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If you don't know yourself, you don't know your nature. If you don't know your nature, you don't know where to exist. By knowing your nature, knowing yourself, you know what to be and how to live. And that only comes from knowledge of self, knowing yourself.
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One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error.
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It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world.
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I'm more interested in the psychic intricacies that they build up and try to run away from, and how they self-construct. A lot of my work is about self-construction. Here, it's those folks who are deeply wounded and bewildered. They're not just victims of trauma; they've been shaken so forcefully that they don't quite know how or where to stand.
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The best discipline, maybe the only discipline that really works, is self- discipline.
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A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.
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The blessed spirits must be sought within the self which is common to all
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Revenge is self-defeating. It will eat away you until there is nothing left.
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What a fool you must be," said my head to my heart, or my sterner to my softer self.
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Style has always been in my mind the author's Self, the creative expression of that Self.
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Somebody once told me that self-punishment is worse than any other punishment.
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If happiness comes at all: which is by no means prearranged; it comes by the way, while you are seeking for something else. Something outside yourself, beyond yourself: in a brief absorption of self-forgetfulness.
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You don't want to see things as they are because your ego would have to admit that things outside yourself are necessary for the self to be. You still have fun, as most people do, from manipulating things.
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Our competition in life is solely with our old self.
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What an odd, ruminating, noisy, self-interrupting conversation we conduct with ourselves from birth to death.
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Find your true self. The old question, asked in many ages, "Who am I?" Once you figure out who am I, and you know who am I, then you have that knowledge of self.
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Now the stage today is to know that Self Realization gives you experiences and then your faith is established. Not blind but open enlightened faith.
