We are creatures on this planet that have the capacity of self-awareness, playing out our role just the same as all else..
We get closer to God as we get more intimately and understandingly acquainted with the things He has created. I know of nothing more inspiring than t….
Self-pity is the worst poverty. When a person says, 'I am...' with pity, before he has said anything more he has diminished himself to half of what h….
[Science] is not perfect. It can be misused. It is only a tool. But it is by far the best tool we have, self-correcting, ongoing, applicable to every….
Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect. Be true to your own mind and conscience, your heart and your soul. So only can you be t….
Our too-young and too-new America, lusty because it is lonely, aggressive because it is afraid, insists upon seeing the world in terms of good and ba….
The moment that the state came into conflict with the higher power, the moment that it set itself up as an end in itself, it became identified with A….
And I realized that I’d tolerated him this long because of self-doubt..
A subject emerges from an interaction between my self, my I, and my medium..
Meditation begins with a call that awakes us out of the coma of self-preoccupation. We are called, we are chosen. Meditation is our response to that ….
If we have free will, by definition we cannot be granted it. We can't be given it. My [-audio-recording-distorted-] paradox states that 'Of course we….
What a fool I would have been to let self-respect interfere with my happiness!.
The biggest challenge is self-financing 100% of everything. Recording costs, studio time, engineer fees, travel costs are all a part of the creation ….
Literary criticism is generally bunk. Nonsense. Usually based on self-serving post-intellectual bullshit..
The gap between our sincere values and our actual behavior is the source of all self-hatred..
In commitment, we dash the hopes of a thousand potential selves..
The main trouble with despair is that it is self-fulfilling..
What I find powerful is a person with the confidence to be her own self..
To be in love is to surpass one's self..
No possible future government in Kabul can be worse than the Taliban, and no thinkable future government would allow the level of Al Qaeda gangsteris….
Human self-understanding changes with time, and so also human consciousness deepens..