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It can be absurd, cantankerous, self-destructive and pompous, but it is never crass Peter Roebuck
self forgotten truest
In your hurry to keep Christmas, you have forgotten Christmas. The truest gift of Christmas is the gift of self. Richard Paul Evans
selfishness disguise inspection
It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise. Richard Dawkins
selfish earth rebel
We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
selfish eye sight
Natural selection, the blind, unconscious, automatic process which Darwin discovered, and which we now know is the explanation forthe existence and apparently purposeful form of all life, has no purpose in mind. It has no mind and no mind's eye. It does not plan for the future. It has no vision, no foresight, no sight at all. If it can be said to play the role of the watchmaker in nature, it is the blind watchmaker.
self errors intuition
The question I try and ask myself when I consider whether or not to train more is what is my body craving and what is my body ready to absorb? Sometimes pushing harder is not the answer. It takes self control, confidence, and intuition to know when to train and when to rest, but when in question error on the side of being over rested. Ryan Hall
selfish compassion people
How far does one combine resistance to over-control with social justice, i.e. tolerable living for people in general? We are too selfish to be trusted, if left free, to give away enough to make people comfortable enough to give them a chance. Yet if all this is ordered for us, as to some extent it has to be, it so soon leads to tyranny. It is a very difficult problem. If only human beings had more pity, unselfishness, and justice and didn't need coercion to treat each other decently. Rose Macaulay
self criticism desert
Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the invidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood. Tryon Edwards
self mountain way
If you have a high-way on Everest, you don't meet the mountain. If everything is prepared, and you have a guide who is responsible for your security, you cannot meet the mountain. Meeting mountains is only possible if you . . . are out there in self-sufficiency. Reinhold Messner
understanding viewers
Magic's about understanding - and then manipulating - how viewers digest the sensory information. Teller
understanding
The task of understanding the past is neverending. Susanna Moore
understanding three conviction
The word of knowledge, strictly employed, implies three things: truth, proof, and conviction. Richard Whately
understanding lines cop
I come from a family of cops, and all of them share that understanding that they put their lives on the line. Ryan Reynolds
understanding littles zen-motorcycle-maintenance
There's so much talk about the system. And so little understanding. Robert M. Pirsig
understanding trying sun
Better to try understanding the sun than a woman. Robert Jordan
understanding levels investment
China should be developing through the various foreign investments it receives. I hope for its level-headed and rational understanding that anything to discourage that is a disservice to itself. Yoshihiko Noda
understanding
Resellers will need an understanding of messaging systems. Arthur Young
understanding
I'm president of the Senate. I'm not a neophyte when it comes to understanding political alignments and misalignments. Colleen Hanabusa
consciousness level reasons sure
It is a concern, it's one of the reasons why we've really heightened up the level of consciousness with our managers, our servers, to make sure they are not over-serving. Eddie Smith
consciousness perhaps raised reports
It had not perhaps been raised to our consciousness by the reports we had received.
consciousness conscious
Consciousness of our powers augments them. Luc de Clapiers
consciousness krishna
The more we are happy in Krishna Consciousness, the more we become purified. Radhanath Swami
consciousness
Knowledge is structured in consciousness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
consciousness life-is individual
Consciousness in the individual is that area where the totality of life is located.
consciousness daily devotion extending god goodness gradual obstacles process union worship
So our daily worship of God is not really the process of gradual acquisition of him, but the daily process of surrendering ourselves, removing all obstacles to union and extending our consciousness of him in devotion and service, in goodness and in l Rabindranath Tagore
consciousness event german-philosopher nature psychic science
Psychology, on the other hand, is science of psychic Nature and, therefore, of consciousness as Nature or as real event in the spatiotemporal world. Edmund Husserl
consciousness freedom history none
The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel