I realized that if what we call human nature can be changed, then absolutely anything is possible. From that moment my life changed.
Shirley MaclaineRead
I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.
Interpretation
Self-acceptance is crucial; our primary relationship is with ourselves.
This quote emphasizes the importance of self-relationship, suggesting that our individual self-awareness and acceptance are foundational to our existence. It implies that no external validation is necessary for our worth and that understanding and loving oneself is a vital journey for fulfillment in life.
In practice
During a motivational speech about self-improvement.
I realized that if what we call human nature can be changed, then absolutely anything is possible. From that moment my life changed.
Sex is hardly ever just about sex.
An actor has many lives and many people within him. I know there are lots of people inside me. No one ever said I'm dull.
If they would teach us from the time we're little to meditate and get in touch with all that our souls know, we wouldn't fight so much.
It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office.
You can't lie when you dance. It's so direct. You do what is in you. It is impossible to dance out of the side of your mouth.
You exist in time, but you belong to eternity- You are a penetration of eternity into the world of time-You are deathless, living in a body of death- Your consciousness knows no death, no birth- It is only your body that is born and dies-But you are not aware of your consciousness-You are not conscious of your consciousness-And that is the whole art of meditation;Becoming conscious of consciousness itself.
The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.
When Zionism becomes co-extensive with Jewishness, Jewishness is pitted against the diversity that defines democracy, and if I may say so, betrays one of the most important ethical dimensions of the diasporic Jewish tradition: namely, the obligation of co-habitation with those different from ourselves.
You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is
This is the gravest danger that today threatens civilization: State intervention; the absorption of all spontaneous social effort by the State, that is to say, of spontaneous historical action, which in the long run sustains, nourishes, and impels human destinies.
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