The truest success is but the development of self..
If our shallow, self-critical culture sometimes seems to lack a sense of the numinous or spiritual it's only in the same way a fish lacks a sense of ….
Religions are the training wheels of self enlightenment. They can be helpful in the beginning but at some point they must be let go..
Repentance is replete with radical implications for a fundamental change of mind not only turns us from the sinful past, but also transforms our life….
It’s not so much that nothing means anything but more that it keeps meaning nothing. there’s no release, just gurus and self- appointed gods and huck….
There is more to be pondered in the grain and texture of life than traditional fiction allows. The work of essayists is vital precisely because it pe….
Self-pity is a sin. It is a form of living suicide..
Citizens who over-rely on their government to do everything not only become dependent on their government, they end up having to do whatever the gove….
There is a great difference between the irreconcilable and the self-contradict ory..
We keep a journal to entrap that collection of selves that forms us, the individual human being..
Dreams are self-created, but dreamers often do not understand the images that their own minds produce. Therein lays the essential paradox of dreams; ….
Human rights and international criminal law both illustrate the contradictory potential of international law. On one level, the imposition of human r….
It's really hard to be a servant leader because we come into this world as a baby in a self-survival mode. Life is a journey toward service..
Society is an interweaving and interworking of mental selves. I imagine your mind and especially what your mind thinks about my mind and what my mind….
I've always been slightly self-conscious as an actor, and I guess that sometimes reads as pomposity. Starting when I was 30, I somehow gave off an im….
The passion of self-aggrandizement is persistent but plastic; it will never disappear from a vigorous mind, but may become morally higher by attachin….
The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self..
The social self is simply any idea, or system of ideas, drawn from the communicative life, that the mind cherishes as its own..
I am incredibly self-deprecating. It stems from self-doubt..
Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self..
The reason I could fit in with so many different kinds of people was that I had no self. And then the problem is, if you don't have a self, how can y….