I'm just shallow and self-interested, and don't get out much because I'm afraid of real commitments..
When I was born I became the visible corner of a folded map. The map has more than one route. More than one destination. The map that is the unfoldin….
Caution! Be very careful of false, meaningless, self-contradictory, and not even very funny warnings, like this one..
Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future..
I knew what it felt like to have no say in who you were as a sexual being. It didn't just strip away your dignity. It stripped away everything you we….
The boundary line between self and external world bears no relation to reality; the distinction between ego and world is made by spitting out part of….
Most people are shaped to the form of their culture because of the enormous malleability of their original endowment. They are plastic to the mouldin….
Supreme happiness consists in self-content; that we may gain this self-content, we are placed upon this earth and endowed with freedom..
Emptiness and boredom: what an understatement. What I felt was complete desolation. Desolation, despair, and depression. Isn't there some other way t….
The integrative tendencies of the individual are incomparably more dangerous than his self-assertive tendencies..
I think self-esteem comes from work..
Self-care is not about self-indulgence , it is about self-preservati on..
Only the self-sufficient stand alone - most people follow the crowd and imitate..
Habit is the denial of creativity and the negation of freedom; a self-imposed straitjacket of which the wearer is unaware..
Civil disobedience presupposes willing obedience of our self-imposed rules, and without it civil disobedience would be a cruel joke..
The integrative tendencies of the individual operate through the mechanisms of empathy, sympathy, projection, introjection, identification, worship- ….
The biggest challenge you have is to challenge your own self doubt and your laziness. It is your self doubt and your laziness that defines and limit ….
Hinduism would not be eternal were it not constantly growing and spreading, and taking in new areas of experience. Precisely because it has this powe….
Why does shame and self-loathing become cruelty to the innocent ?.
Do not lose the treasure of your Self for the pleasure of the senses..
From the idea that the self is not given to us, I think there is only one practical consequence: we have to create ourselves as a work of art..