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A man should be resigned to knowing himself a little better each day if he hasn't got the guts to pu...

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Louis-Ferdinand CélineJourney to the End of the Night

Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it p...

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Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault o...

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For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.

Every man is worth just so much as the things about which he busies himself.

Why do we want other people to like us, even if we don't really care about them all that much?

It takes courage...to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose to take the dull p...

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Marianne WilliamsonA Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

How odd that we spend so much time treating the darkness, and so little time seeking the light. The ...

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Marianne WilliamsonTears to Triumph: The Spiritual Journey from Suffering to Enlightenment

I have lived a long life and had many troubles, most of which never happened

For the first time in his life, he felt exactly what he was, and he was not impressed.

When the artist finds himself he is lost. The fact that he has succeeded in never finding himself is...

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My own sense is that the acquisition of self knowledge has been made difficult by the modern world. ...

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All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

Was I like honey thinking it's a small bear, not realizing the bear is just the shape of its bottle?...

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When you are an outcast, even a tossed stone can be cherished.

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Mitch AlbomThe Five People You Meet in Heaven

I do not believe in taking the right decision, I take a decision and make it right.

It was one of those moments—which sometimes occur only at the interval of years—when a man's moral a...

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In judging our progress as individual we tend to concentrate on external factors such as one's socia...

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Nelson MandelaConversations With Myself

It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are - not necessarily a religious fe...

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As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for ...

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Oprah WinfreyThe Uncommon Wisdom of Oprah Winfrey: A Portrait in Her Own Words

She was a wicked thing sometimes. All full of want. As if the shape of the world depended on her moo...

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Patrick RothfussThe Slow Regard of Silent Things

In his moments of pride he had said all those things, half in fun and half in earnest, and he began ...

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Man is the question he asks about himself, before any question has been formulated. It is, therefore...

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If theater is ritual, then dance is too... It's as if the threads connecting us to the rest of the w...

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It is easy for us to criticize the prejudices of our grandfathers, from which our fathers freed them...

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I did not tell Fat this, but technically he had become a Buddha. It did not seem to me like a good i...

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But suppose your dæmon settles in a shape you don't like?Well, then, you're discontented, en't you? ...

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A man who's discontents were barely known to himself, awakening in middle age to the horror of self-...

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I didn't know I had it in me. There's more to all of us than we realize. Life is so much bigger, gra...

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Queen LatifahPut on Your Crown: Life-Changing Moments on the Path to Queendom

The most important precept is to be aware of WHO WE ARE!“Who we are,” he said, underlining each word...

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Those who wish to sit, shut their eyes,and meditate to know if the world's true or lies,may do so. I...

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I'd been so fascinated by the notion, that I'd forgotten to measure what it was bringing forth. I'd ...

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This thing I am feeling, I’m almost certain, is the closest I’ll ever come to standing somewhere in ...

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Raquel CepedaBird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

I remember feeling that pieces of me were scattered around the world; I belonged to her, Mother Eart...

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While America will always, I think, feel foreign to me, New York City is my home. This is where I ca...

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Raquel CepedaBird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

Be your own self. Love what YOU love.

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as...

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One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of our...

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Rollo MayMan's Search for Himself

Everyone had learned that it was worth giving up privacy for the merest possibility of fame, and the...

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To remember oneself and to relax the body is something we have to do constantly.

We always find something, eh Didi, to let us think we exist?

What was it like to be so confident even in your failings that you weren't the least bit bothered wh...

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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