Just remember enough never to be vulnerable again: total forgetting could be as self-destructive as complete remembering..

I didn't want to whisper and giggle about [puberty] anymore. I felt incredibly self-conscious. I felt like I was losing myself, and I was losing who ….

Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own..

Gnostic politics is self-defeating in so far as its disregard for the structure of reality leads to continuous warfare..

Belief in oneself is incredibly infectious. It generates momentum, the collective force of which far outweighs any kernel of self-doubt that may cree….

Can you imagine if you really let it in that you are not a problem to be solved in any way? Imagine you knew that anything that would tell you other….

Ultimately all idolatry is worship of the self projected and objectified: all idolization is self-idolization..

I take things too seriously..

As we begin to plan for a new human society, we need to foster common values about clean air, water, and other elements of self-sustenance. These, al….

One of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world - and this is certainly true of a lot of places in the Middle East - is that the cap….

I've aged, but grown up? No..

All our suffering is associated with this pre-occupation. All loss and gain, pleasure and pain arise because we identify so closely with this vague f….

The literature of a people must so ring from the sense of its nationality; and nationality is impossible without self-respect, and self-respect is im….

I ain't from Africa. I'm from St. Louis..

Hitler was undoubtedly a genius but he lacked self-control. He recognized no limits. Otherwise the thousand-year Reich would have lasted more than tw….

If we were to focus our attention on one particular problem and neglect the others, we would fail to see the true scope of our current global issues.….

But look within and watch the stuff coming up-restlessness, anxiety, impatience, pain-just watch it come up and don't get involved. Much to your surp….

Remorse presupposes enough self-forgetfulness to feel the pain ofothers..

Accidental stacks considered harmful..

Before we can properly help the people, we have to destroy the old education... that teaches them that somebody is keeping them back and that God has….

It's never over till it's over with a friend..