Quotes about self
self might becoming
It is by becoming increasingly complex that the self might be said to grow. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
self people growing
When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are by necessity diminished. They become rigid and defensive, and their self stops growing.
self sea weather
The typhoon came out of the sea first as a deep hollow roar. ... I was surrounded by the madness, the unreason, of uncontrolled, undisciplined energy. None of this made any sense. It was worse than useless - it was nature destroying its own creation - its own self. To create by the long process of growth and then to destroy by a fit of wild emotion - was this not madness, was this not unreason? Pearl S. Buck
selfish giving secret
You have endless energy only when you are working for the good of the whole - you have to stop working for your little selfish interests. That's the secret of it. In this world you are given as you give. Peace Pilgrim
self creating doe
Are you a slave to your self-centered nature or does your divine nature guide your life? Do you kow that every moment of your life you're creating through thought? You create your own inner condition; you're helping create the conditions around you.
self giving return
I felt a complete willingness, without any reservations, to give my life, to dedicate my life to service. I tell you, it's a point of no return. After that, you can never go back to completely self-centered living.
self satan deny
Anyone who tells you to deny your self is from Satan. Paula White
self worried gunshots
We worried about competitors, but it was an unreasonable fear. As a friend once pointed out, most gunshot wounds are self-inflicted. Philip Greenspun
self-esteem down-and setback
Whenever I have faced a setback I have dusted myself down and got on with the rest of my life because I believed in myself. Philip Green
self desert sacred
If the desert is holy, it is because it is a forgotten place that allows us to remember the sacred. Perhaps that is why every pilgrimage to the desert is a pilgrimage to the self. There is no place to hide and so we are found. Terry Tempest Williams
self holy grapes
All holy piety in public, and all peeled grapes and self-indulgence in private. Terry Pratchett
self invisible pleasure
I work in a medium where I get to be totally invisible and I get great pleasure from that, being a pretty self-conscious person. Terry Gross
self ego would-be
In conscious life, we achieve some sense of ourselves as reasonably unified, coherent selves, and without this action would be impossible. But all this is merely at the 'imaginary' level of the ego, which is no more than the tip of the iceberg of the human subject known to psychoanalysis . The ego is function or effect of a subject which is always dispersed, never identical with itself, strung out along the chains of the discourses which constitute it. Terry Eagleton
self superstitions improvement
An enlightened trust in the sovereignty of human reason can be every bit as magical as the exploits of Merlin, and a faith in our capacity for limitless self-improvement just as much a wide-eyed superstition as a faith in leprechauns.
self wizards truth-is
Wizard's Tenth Rule Willfully turning aside from the truth is treason to one's self. Terry Goodkind
selfish moon dreamer
Go, then! Go to the moon-you selfish dreamer! Tennessee Williams
self order dimensions
We are alienated, so alienated that the self must disguise itself as an extraterrestrial in order not to alarm us with the truly bizarre dimensions that it encompasses. Terence McKenna
self levels ascent
This is the nature of going forward into being: A series of self-transforming ascents of level.
self process reflecting
The Gaian process is more than a process. It is s self-reflecting entelechy of some sort.
self mind desert
The Gaian mind is what were calling the psychedelic experience. Its an experience of the living fact of the entelechy of the planet - and without that experience we wander in a desert of bogus ideologies. But with that experience the compass of the self can be set.
self disease alcoholism
Alcoholism isn't a disease. It's a failure of self-image.
self knows
How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?
self drug may
The drug may not be toxic, but you may be self-toxic, and you may discover this in the drug experience.
self space mind
Psychedelics are not flashlights into the chaos of the Freudian unconscious, they are tools for mathematically unpacking your mind into a higher dimensional space. In the Newtonian and print created space that we are walking around in you, are like a self extracting archive, that hasn't self extracted itself yet.
self talking sea
For talking monkeys to speak of truth is hubris of the highest degree. Where is it writ large that talking monkeys should be able to model the cosmos? If a sea urchin or a racoon were to propose to you that it had a viable truth about the universe, the absurdity of that assertion would be self-evident, but in our case we make an exception.
self despair psychedelic
Inevitably out of the psychedelic experience emerges not despair, not self-indulgence, but wild-eyed idealism, that's the inevitable product of any psychedelically driven social process.
self civilization ego
If the ego is not regularly and repeatedly dissolved in the unbounded hyperspace of the Transcendent Other, there will always be slow drift away from the sense of self as part of nature’s larger whole. The ultimate consequence of this drift is the fatal ennui that now permeates Western Civilization.
self two mystery
The word 'self' is as great a mystery as the word 'other'. It's just a polarity between two mysteries.
self racist blind
I was really worn down by an American society that is racist, smugly blind to it, and hugely self-satisfied. Randall Robinson
selfish men suffering
The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit. Ralph Waldo Emerson
self originality accuracy
What is originality? It is being one's self, and reporting accurately what we see and are.
self healthy preacher
What a searching preacher of self-command is the varying phenomenon of health.
self pedigree young
We love it because it is self dependent, self derived, and therefore of an old immaculate pedigree, even if shown in a young person.