When I look in the mirror, I am slightly reminded of self-portraits by Durer and by Rembrandt, because they both show a degree of introspection. I se….
We're all self-destructive when we're young. We all rebel. If we don't, there's something wrong. But when a Chicano kid's in a rebellious state, he h….
Racism built me into a person that was set up to be self-destructive..
America was born out of a desire for self-determination, a longing for the human dignity that only independence can bring..
The Self alone exists. When you try to trace the ego, which is the basis of the perception of the world and everything else, you find the ego does no….
Being home schooled is awesome because you can make your own schedule, so as far as time management, its up to you how much you get done and when you….
We are not passive exhibitors of visual or auditory or tactile images. We have selves. We have a Me that is automatically present in our minds right ….
One is what one remembers: no more, no less..
The self...can split off from itself without being less. You are not a mini self, an adjunct to some super-being, never to share fully in its reality….
Meditating means bringing the mind back to something again and again. Thus, we all meditate, but unless we direct it in some way, we meditate on ours….
Your life is the one place you have to spend yourself fully--wild, generous, drastic--in an unrationed profligacy of self ... And in that split secon….
I believe that the profits will come from the quality of your creative products. Since the beginning, I've always wanted to develop a self-feeding ci….
The secret of pleasure in life, as distinct from its great triumphs of transcendent joy, is to live in a series of small, legitimate successes. By le….
You have friends who actually care about you and speak the language of the inner self. You have avoided them of late. Your soul is as disheveled as y….
If you're in a band or think of yourself as a slightly creative person, you can get quite self-indulgent, so sometimes it's nice to have those people….
I have brothers, and that so-called boyish quality was something that I was deathly self-conscious about when I was younger..
Worry is momentary atheism crying out for correction by trust in a good, sovereign God. Suffering breaks self-reliance..
Politically I am neither left nor right! And this kind of political-ethical standpoint-- being in the middle-- usually brings about seclusion and iso….
Four innate sentiments dispose people to a universal moral sense. These are sympathy, fairness, self-control and duty..
The true, or higher part of the self is always seeking the state that mystics talk about, the state in which we are filled with a universal love and ….
In my poems though, as you say, the comic arrived fairly late. This doubtless has something to do with growing older. A person who's seen a bit of th….