Alan Watts Quotes, Self Quotes, Two Quotes

Like too much alcohol,self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double, and we make the double image for two selves - mental and material, controlling and controlled, reflective and spontaneous. Thus instead of suffering we suffer about suffering, and suffer about suffering about suffering.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Self Quotes , Two Quotes

[Science] is not perfect. It can be misused. It is only a tool. But it is by far the best tool we have, self-correcting, ongoing, applicable to everything. It has two rules. First: there are no sacred truths; all assumptions must be critically examined; arguments from authority are worthless. Second: whatever is inconsistent with the facts must be discarded or revised. ... The obvious is sometimes false; the unexpected is sometimes true.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Science Quotes , Self Quotes

I could only achieve success in my life through self-discipline, and I applied it until my wish and my will became one.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Nikola Tesla Quotes , Self Quotes , Discipline Quotes

Get away from all books and forms and let your soul see its Self. "We are deluded and maddened by books", Shri Krishna declares.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Book Quotes , Self Quotes

Understanding of the self only arises in relationship, in watching yourself in relationship to people, ideas, and things; to trees, the earth, and the world around you and within you. Relationship is the mirror in which the self is revealed. Without self-knowledge there is no basis for right thought and action.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes , Mirrors Quotes , Self Quotes

We are self-uncertain creatures, and we may Yea, even when we know not, mix our spites And private hates with our defence of Heaven.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Hate Quotes , Self Quotes

When anything assumes the strength of a creed, it becomes self-sustained and derives the needed support from within.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Self Quotes , Support Quotes

The true self is not aware that it is a self. A bird, as it sings, sings itself. But not according to a picture. It has no idea of itself.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Self Quotes , Ideas Quotes

Madness does not come by breaking out, but by giving in; by settling down in some dirty, little, self-repeating circle of ideas; by being tamed.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Dirty Quotes , Self Quotes

The object of the Gita appears to me to be that of showing the most excellent way to attain self-realization.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Self Quotes , Way Quotes

Work done for the Self gives no bondage. Neither desire pleasure nor fear pain from work. It is the mind and body that work, not I. Tell yourself this unceasingly and realise it. Try not to know that you work.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Pain Quotes , Self Quotes

This is not a time for fear, brethren, but rather a time for faith - a time for each of us who holds the priesthood to be his best self.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Thomas S. Monson Quotes , Self Quotes , Best Self Quotes

Am I caught in a self-centred, narrow little cell which refuses to look beyond? Do I see it when you come along and tell me that my brain is the brain of all mankind?

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes , Destiny Quotes , Self Quotes

If friends disappoint you over and over, that's in large part your own fault. Once someone has shown a tendency to be self-centered, you need to recognize that and take care of yourself; people aren't going to change simply because you want them to.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oprah Winfrey Quotes , Friendship Quotes , Self Quotes

My Swaraj will be not be a result of murder of others but a voluntary act of continuous self-sacrifice.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Sacrifice Quotes , Self Quotes

My wealth is in my knowledge of self, love, and spirituality.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Muhammad Ali Quotes , Self Quotes , Spirituality Quotes

When we are motivated by compassion and wisdom, the results of our actions benefit everyone, not just our individual selves.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Compassion Quotes , Self Quotes

I cannot endure the horror, the evil, which comes to self in solitude.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Self Quotes , Evil Quotes

When a bee stings, she dies. She cannot sting and live. When men sting, their better selves die. Every sting kills a better instinct. Men must not turn bees and kill themselves in stinging others.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Men Quotes , Self Quotes

All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else's manufacture, is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make, as good money!

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Self Quotes , Words Of Wisdom Quotes