Listening is a form of spiritual hospitality by which you invite strangers to become friends, to get to know their inner selves more fully, and even ….
I, my own damn self, am not a Tea Party supporter. I disagree with them on social liberties, our overseas wars, Obama's birthplace, Sarah Palin, and ….
Self-pity is, perhaps, the least becoming of all emotions, and we often indulge in it only beause we are too exhausted to resist..
Darkness coiled between what he wanted them to believe and the self he despised. It only made him more alone. How could you save someone when he didn….
Even though sugar was very expensive, people consumed it till their teeth turned black, and if their teeth didn't turn black naturally, they blackene….
Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish. Your greatest instrument is you, yourself, and th….
In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect..
Think about all the good things of your life. Never think about your difficulties. Forget yourself, and concentrate on being of service as much as yo….
At the turn of the [21st] century it was really Sergey Brin at Google who just had the thought of, well, if we give away all the information services….
The real friend is another self..
Europe is overpopulated, the world will soon be in the same condition, and if the self-reproduction of man is not rationalized... we shall have war..
Self-help books for women are part of a multibillion-dollar industry, sensitively attuned to our insecurities and our purses..
What, on the eternal list of priorities, precedes health? What more obvious role could government have than the defense of the life, of each citizen?….
A certain kind of shittiness, a certain kind of stagnation, a certain kind of darkness, goes on propagating itself by its own power in its own self-c….
I close my eyes and I take a deep breath and I think about my life and how I ended up this way. I think about the ruin, devastation and wreckage I ha….
At the centre of nonviolence is a force which is self-acting..
A man's true estate of power and riches is to be in himself; not in his dwelling or position or external relations, but in his own essential characte….
Spirituality points, always, beyond: beyond the ordinary, beyond possession, beyond the narrow confines of the self, and - above all - beyond expecta….
My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life..
The easiest time to cure an illness is before it is accepted as a part of the self-image..
Self-education is a continuing source of pleasure to me, for the more I know, the fuller my life is and the better I appreciate my own existence.