I'll do my best to always put God and neighbor ahead of ego, but I want to find myself, and if finding myself means losing my ego self, I'll go there..
Of one thing I am sure. Complaining is self-perpetuating and counterproductive. Whenever I express my complaints in the hope of evoking pity and rece….
The spirit for me is the eternal self. And when one incarnates, an aspect comes with that incarnation, that's called the soul. And together the mind,….
Whether deliberately, unconsciously or accidentally, she seems to have composed her own life so that its fitful, rudderless, and self-doubting first ….
The goal of art was the vital expression of self..
I think as a mature artist, you're probably always trying to undo the compromises of one's self [in general]. It's not necessarily to do with youth..
I know myself as mortal, but this raises the question: "What is I?" Am I an individual, or am I an evolving life stream composed of countless selves?.
To me, the most important thing - aside from meeting people's physical needs, whether that's education, health care, clothing, food, a roof over thei….
An intelligent being, is the active principle of all things. One must have renounced all common sense to doubt it, and it is a waste of time to try t….
Few find inner peace but this is not because they try and fail, it is because they do not try. . . When your life is governed by the divine nature in….
But there was escape, too, even in those days, for there was Whistler living in the grey mists with a faded orange moon. The nocturne transformed its….
Losing ... really does say something about who you are. Among other things it measures are: do you blame others, or do you own the loss? Do you analy….
There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling an….
I'm at that age where I watch such things with two minds, one that cackles at these capers and another that never gets much beyond a rather jaded and….
Knock your bad self out..
All I can tell you with certainty is that I, for one, have no self, and that I am unwilling or unable to perpetrate upon myself the joke of a self. W….
Self interest feeds more people than self sacrifice..
Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes..
The real subject of autobiography is not one's experience but one's consciousness. Memoirists use the self as a tool..
You could go church and you could describe your worst behavior, your worst self, and despite your worst behavior you would be forgiven and then redee….
Anyone who tells you to deny yourself is from Satan..