I kept running around it in large or small circles, always looking for someone or something able to convince me of my Belovedness. Self-rejection is ….
History is not the past. It is the stories we tell about the past. How we tell these stories - triumphantly or self-critically, metaphysically or dia….
No person on earth has the power to make you unhappy. There is no event on earth that has the power to disturb you or hurt you. No event, condition, ….
The howl of self-interest is loud ... but the heart is black which throbs solely to its note..
I don't think public life in and of itself can destroy you. I think it's the way people react to it, and some people are more sturdy than others... I….
If we are safe today, it is because America has stood with us. If we are to remain safe tomorrow, it will be because America remains powerful and sel….
I didn't learn for years that you generally find your Self after you quit looking for it..
All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself..
Soften my hard self-opinionatedness, which time has hardened so exceedingly!.
We can work on inner peace and world peace at the same time. On one hand, people have found inner peace by losing themselves in a cause larger than t….
The idea of suicide, understandable as it is, does not seem commendable to me. We live in order to gain the greatest possible amount of spiritual dev….
True worship leads to a more full knowledge of self, God, heaven, duty, doctrine, practice and experience..
The imagination is not an escape, but a return to the richness of our true selves; a return to reality..
It is the function of God Rama to destroy evil, wherever it occurs and it is equally the function of God Rama to give to his devotees like Bibhishana….
So you know how things stand. Now forget what they think of you. Be satisfied if you can live the rest of your life, however short, as your nature de….
We can struggle with what is. We can judge and blame others or ourselves. Or we can accept what cannot be changed. Peace comes from an honorable and ….
But self-satisfaction, if as buoyant as gas, has an ugly trick of collapsing when full blown, and facts are stony things that refuse to melt away in ….
The self-confidence one builds from achieving difficult things and accomplishing goals is the most beautiful thing of all..
All art is self-portraiture..
The whole story of the Father's Christ-exalting plan of redeeming love, from eternity to eternity, must be told, or the radical reorientation of life….
It is the cry of the separate self, ‘What about me?’ As long as we keep acting from that place, it doesn’t matter who wins the war against (what they….