Self Quotes
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The cause of suffering is that the unbounded Self is overshadowed by the world.
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As I get older ... I become more convinced that good government is not a substitute for self-government.
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I think my younger self would be more amazed to know I was doing an interview for 'The Spectator.'
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My external sensations are no less private to my self than are my thoughts or my feelings. In either case my experience falls within my own circle, a circle closed on the outside... the whole world for each is peculiar and private to that soul.
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In any Christian view of life, self-fulfillment must never be permitted to become the controlling issue. The issue is service, the service of real people. The question is, 'How can I be most useful?', not, 'How can I feel most useful?'
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And that's where the whole trouble is. We're too much alike to understand each other because we don't even understand our own selves.
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Your constant utilization of thought to give continuity to your separate self is you. There is nothing there inside you other than that.
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It's no accident that most self-help groups use 'anonymous' in their names; to Americans, the first step toward redemption is a ritual wiping out of the self, followed by the construction of a new one.
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The Self of everyone, the Atma of everyone, the transcendental field of reality of everyone, is the same in everyone. Whether the body calls itself an American, German, Indian or Chinese, it doesn't matter.
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“Do you deny it?” Grimani persisted. “That you went to Marchese Rinaldo's room to ask him about your notebook?” “Deny it? Only the greatest selfrestraint prevents me from laughing it out of countenance.”
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I believe whoever has the most energy wins. You need energy to win at your relationship, win in your career, win as a parent, win at being your highest potential self.
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As a breeze ruffles the surface of a lake and distorts the images reflected therein, so also the chitta vrtti (fluctuations of mind) disturb the peace of the mind. The still waters of a lake reflect the beauty around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the Self is seen reflected in it.
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A thing that happens to migrants is that they lose many of the traditional things which root identity, which root the self.
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It's the essence of a degenerating mind periodically, to lose all sense of continuous self, and therefore any regard for what others think of your lack of continuity.
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Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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To fight against the infidels is Jihad; but to fight against your evil self is greater Jihad.
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I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.
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The truth is, I've always been wracked with self-loathing and terrible, paralysing depression.
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Reverence is the sense that there is something larger than the self, larger even than the human, to which one accords respect and awe and assent.
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When we see beyond self, we no longer cling to happiness. And when we stop clinging, we can begin to be happy.
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Be that self which one truly is.
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Self-sufficiency is the enemy of salvation. If you are self-sufficient, you have no need of God. If you have no need of God, you do not seek Him. If you do not seek Him, you will not find Him.
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Any beauty you see in me is only a reflection of Him, any ugliness, a reflection of my self.
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'Harry Potter' gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.
