The process of finding happiness within one's own Self may be difficult and slow but it cannot be found anywhere else..
America was based on a big promise--a great big one: the Declaration of Independence. When you have to live with that in the house, that's quite a pr….
The biggest adversary in our life is ourselves. We are what we are, in a sense, because of the dominating thoughts we allow to gather in our head. Al….
Excessive indulgence to others, especially to children is in fact only self-indulgence under an alias..
In the end, we self-perceiving, self-inventing, locked-in mirages are little miracles of self-reference..
I'm single, footloose and fancy free, I have no responsibilities, no anchors. Work, friendship and self-improvement, that's me..
If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself, if you want to eliminate the suffering in the world, then eliminate all that is n….
After the first establishment of identity there comes the imperative need to lose this new-found sense of separateness and to belong to something lar….
I haven't seen so much tippy-toeing around since the last time I went to the ballet. When members of the arts community were askedthis week about one….
Don't think of your website as a self-promotion machine, think of it as a self-invention machine..
... oh, I long to prove myself by writing! The best seems to die in me when I give it up. It is the self I love--not this efficient, philanthropic se….
The inner censor of the mind of the true believer completes the work of the public censor; his self-discipline is as tyrannical as the obedience impo….
Self-discipline is the No. 1 delineating factor between the rich, the middle class and the poor..
I didn't have any definition of self. I never fit in, so I started pretending I was other people. I'd find people I thought were cool and dress how t….
In a strange way we were free. We'd reached the end of the line. We had nothing more to lose. Our privacy, our liberty, our dignity: all of this was ….
Creativity is the ability to identify self-imposed constraints, remove them, and explore the consequences of their removal..
Acting requires a lot of discipline to go with the obsession. It's a path of knowledge, and of self-knowledge. Sometimes you get lost on the path. An….
[Religion is a] primitive insurance against disaster. ... Originally religion was merely a function of the self-preservative instinct. Offer sacrific….
I think life is self-examination. Certainly the voyage that one takes..
A cold, self-righteous prig who goes regularly to church may be far nearer to Hell than a prostitute..
Let us subdue the ravages of the baser-self, and aspire to the higher calling of exalting joy through compassion, for that is the one true purpose of….