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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

My friend...care for your psyche...know thyself, for once we know ourselves, we may learn how to car...

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You learn who you are only by making yourself accountable to the judgment of others.

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Stanley HauerwasHannah's Child: A Theologian's Memoir

First of all I express sincerity. There's also that sense of humor, by which people sometimes learn ...

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I think....you still have no idea. The effect you can have.

Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!

There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you w...

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I've recovered my tenderness by long looking;I'm a Socrates of small fury.The waves bends with the f...

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Self-contemplation is a curseThat makes an old confusion worse.

I will no longer wound myself with the thoughts and questions that have surrounded me like thorns: t...

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All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves t...

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Tom RobbinsFierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates

The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.

Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.

The illusion of self-awareness. Happy automatons, running on trivial programs. I'll bet you never gu...

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For if there are (at a venture) seventy-six different times all ticking in the mind at once, how man...

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I am sure it is everyone’s experience, as it has been mine, that any discovery we make about ourselv...

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...some men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast them amid certain surroundings, but t...

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Or may-be one who is puzzled at me.As if I were not puzzled at myself!

Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves,As souls only understand souls.

One world is aware and by far the largest to me, and that is myself, / And whether I come to my own ...

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As in most families, the mere struggle to have anything of one's own, to be one's self at all, creat...

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It's like there was a fellow in every man that's done a-past the sanity or the insanity, that watche...

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We must judge the tree by its fruit. The best fruits of the religious experience are the best things...

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No human being can be so honest as to become completely false.

History, writing, infect after a time a man's sense of himself...

[H]is mouth pursed, but pursed in American, more generous than English pursing, ready for broader vo...

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Diversity is an aspect of human existence that cannot be eradicated by terrorism or war or self-cons...

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Maturity: knowing where you're crazy, trying to warn others of the fact and striving to keep yoursel...

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At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and ...

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I have to admit it humbly, mon cher compatriote, I was always bursting with vanity. I, I, I is the r...

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He who does not reflect his life back to God in gratitude does not know himself.

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Albert SchweitzerReverence for Life: The Words of Albert Schweitzer

Stand up for who you are. Respect your Self and ignite the divine sparks in you. Access your powers....

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Have love for your inner Self and everything else is done for you.

In reality, we live in everyone. I live in you. You live in me. There is no gap, no distance. We all...

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Enlightenment gives profound joy of the heart and a great love for the fellow beings.

Breathing is our participation with the cosmic dance. When our breath is in harmony, cosmos nourishe...

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Amit RayBeautify your Breath - Beautify your Life

The dancing Sun the dancing moon the dancing stars and the dancing galaxies are the direct expressio...

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Amit RayBeautify your Breath - Beautify your Life

We live in everyone. I live in you. You live in me. There is no gap, no distance.

There is a rose in every heart. Enlightenment is recognizing that rose.

Every challenge provides light. The light of understanding about life and truth.

Enlightenment is the moment when you are most alive and most compassionate.

Highest miracle is to discover who you are – the ultimate possibility.

Raise you awareness and share your uniqueness to the world.

Witnessing is the alchemy of enlightenment. It can transform mud into gold.

Enlightenment is making every cell, gene and DNA as the radiator of peace and harmony.

Witnessing is not flowing with the current of the river but observing the flow from the bank of the ...

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At the core of your heart, you are perfect and pure. No one and nothing can alter that.

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Amit RayMeditation: Insights and Inspirations

You are your master. Only you have the master keys to open the inner locks.

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Amit RayMeditation: Insights and Inspirations

It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how m...

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Amit RayMeditation: Insights and Inspirations

In one level, Om is the self-organizing power of the universe and self-awareness is the process to a...

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In the land of light there is only one currency. The currency of love.

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Amit RayMeditation: Insights and Inspirations

Meditation is spending time with the self. It is the time to be intimated with the soul.

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Amit RayMindfulness Living in the Moment - Living in the Breath

Mindfulness removes the emotional fogs of negative thoughts with the light of awareness.

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Amit RayMindfulness Living in the Moment - Living in the Breath

Every struggle is like mud - there are always some lotus seeds waiting to sprout.

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Amit RayNonviolence: The Transforming Power

Be the music of your soul. Don't be a pawn in someone else's game.

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Amit RayNonviolence: The Transforming Power

There is a God part in you. The consciousness. The pure Self. Learn to listen the voice of that Powe...

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Amit RayNonviolence: The Transforming Power

Kindness and awareness work together. Through awareness we understand the underlying beauty of every...

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Amit RayNonviolence: The Transforming Power

When you know the knower within, you don't need to know further. When you know the meditator within,...

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Compassion is all inclusive. Compassion knows no boundaries. Compassion comes with awareness, and aw...

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Amit RayNonviolence: The Transforming Power

Write it on your heart you are the most beautiful soul of the Universe. Realize it, honor it and cel...

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Amit RayNonviolence: The Transforming Power

If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.

A compassionate heart radiates rays of beauty that remove the clouds of million hearts.

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Amit RayWalking the Path of Compassion

Deep down there is a rose in every heart.

Learn to access the cosmic trust. Life will be easy.

You need bravery for compassion. In the picture of your soul, the bravery points are the most beauti...

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Amit RayWalking the Path of Compassion

Sometimes this book stays in the present, other times I try to cut myself in half and count the ring...

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Most people believe it is only by constraint they can get any good out of themselves, and so they li...

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Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.

You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly abo...

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Anne LamottBird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.

Going to see plays isn't what you people should do. Try looking at yourselves a little more often an...

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The enemy is within, and within stays within, and we can’t get out of within.

Dagny," he said, looking at the city as it moved past their taxi window, "think of the first man who...

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To say "I love you" one must know first how to say the "I".

Now look at me! Take a good look! I was born and I knew I was alive and I knew what I wanted. What d...

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It is a slightly arresting notion that if you were to pick yourself apart with tweezers, one atom at...

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Bill BrysonA Short History of Nearly Everything

I just have one of those faces. People come up to me and say, 'What's wrong?' Nothing. 'Well, it tak...

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He said sometimes when you're young you have to think about things, because you're forming your valu...

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My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this ide...

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Nothing will shake a man-or at any rate a man like me-out of his merely verbal thinking and his mere...

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It seems like I want them to like me for my mind, anyway," she said, "so why not let them go straigh...

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Certainly it would be wonderful if we all knew exactly who we were.

You've always been what you are. That's not new. What you'll get used to is knowing it.

He felt he could not be honest without disappointing everybody he loved.

It was in the work that she came closest to finding herself, by which we don’t mean gaining “self-kn...

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He should have had more faith in himself rather than give in to his weaker qualities, in particular ...

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It was in the work that she came closest to finding herself, by which we don’t mean gaining “self-kn...

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Humans: such a brilliant model of emotional self-awareness.

Then, learn from me not to judge by appearances: I am, as Miss Scatcherd said, slatternly; I seldom ...

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I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, ...

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I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself.

No: I shall not marry Samuel Fawthrop Wynne.""I ask why? I must have a reason. In all respects he is...

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It's not always a question of you changing your mind. I think very often your mind changes you. You ...

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We can know what we do wrong even before we do it, but self-knowledge can't affect or change the out...

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Look, there is nothing you can say about this show that I don't already know

Jimmy put in a word and told them that if I made it, I wouldn't be able to live with myself without ...

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Craig FergusonAmerican on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

I don't know why I resented it so intensely to have them think of me as something newly minted in th...

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Self-awareness is probably overrated. A complex, self-regulating system doesn't need it in order to ...

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As Paul Tillich put it, suffering introduces you to yourself and reminds you that you are not the pe...

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