To be one of God's lilies means an interior abandonment of the rarest kind. It means that we are to be infinitely passive, and yet infinitely active ….
For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your tr….
They serve best who give most of themselves. Self is forgotten by the one who serves, for such a one rejoices to see success coming to others through….
I think a toxic message in a lot of Christianity has been that the self has to be annihilated in order for God to be found. I think that has been a t….
He loved possessions, not masses of them, but a select few that he did not part with.They gave a man self-respect. Not ostentation but quality, and t….
I regard myself as a religious... the temper of my mind as religious, and because I regard the temper of my mind as religious, I am profoundly skepti….
That which rises and sinks is made up of what it rises from. The finality of the universe is the God Arunachala. Meditating on Him or on the seer, th….
I didn't want to whisper and giggle about [puberty] anymore. I felt incredibly self-conscious. I felt like I was losing myself, and I was losing who ….
Most of us still caged within careers chosen for us by our not entirely worldly 18-22 year old selves..
Thus meditating you will no longer strive to build yourself up in your prejudices, but, forgetting self, you will remember only that you are seeking ….
I always choose to look, as much as one can, at the supernatural not being something that exists outside of nature, but a deeper, fundamental heart o….
To denounce does not free the self from what it hates, any more than ignoring the past shuts off its influence..
There is another peculiar satisfaction in really hearing someone: It is like listening to the music of the spheres, because beyond the immediate mess….
Tiger Woods has been unlucky with his body. I don't know whether some of it is self-induced or some of it is just unlucky. But we never know what hap….
The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry..
... the school should be an appendage of the family state, and modeled on its primary principle, which is, to train the ignorant and weak by self-sac….
In the final analysis, a drawing simply is no longer a drawing, no matter how self-sufficient its execution may be. It is a symbol, and the more prof….
We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves, eager to listen to the nex….
If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life..
If you don't learn anything but self discipline, then athletics is worthwhile..
It is very hard to separate one's self from a character. Sometimes the people closest to me have to be very understanding..