The very lack of opportunity the group faces creates a self-defeating cycle and puts pressure on members to limit their aspirations..
If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will i….
All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously..
The laws of our being are such that we must perform some degree of use in the world, whether we intend it, or not; but we can deprive ourselves of it….
The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self..
However, there probably is a slight connection between the high-wire, super sensitivity, open to everything and too much, and slightly fragile soul o….
We are wont to condemn self-love; but what we really mean to condemn is contrary to self-love. It is that mixture of selfishness and self-hate that p….
The will and self are ultimately dynamic, they are their actions. This energy can be trained and directed, tuned like an orchestra. It is not a mat….
Men of stainless character and self purification will easily inspire confidence and automatically purify the atmosphere around them..
I really love hanging out on the set, and I love the life, and all of that. But I don't think I could stick with this profession if it weren't for th….
The real reason for a quest is always self-knowledge..
He (the Shaman) is a self-reliant explorer of the endless mansions of a magnificent hidden universe..
The complete self-absorption, and childish indulgence and disregard, and having to feel as though everything you're doing is so people can live vicar….
You're re-accessing your natural energy, your natural information, your knowledge of yourself, of your sacred self..
The shell game that we play ... is technically called 'renormalization'. But no matter how clever the word, it is still what I would call a dippy pro….
… that sour blend of loneliness and lust for recognition, shyness and extravagance, deep insecurity and self-intoxicated egomania, that drives poets ….
What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer..
Self-respect will keep a man from being abject when he is in the power of enemies, and will enable him to feel that he may be in the right when the w….
Structure ignites spontaneity. Limits yield intensity. When we play... by our self-chosen rules, we find that containment of strength amplifies stren….
The only thing I hate worse than prophecy is self-fulfilling prophecy.
True humility is not an abject, groveling, self-despising spirit; it is but a right estimate of ourselves as God sees us..