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  • But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is. If you awaken from this illusion, and you understand that black implies white, self implies other, life implies death - or shall I say, death implies life - you can conceive yourself.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Self Quotes , White Quotes
  • Nothing could be more absurd than moral lessons at such a moment! Oh, self-satisfied people: with what proud self-satisfaction such babblers are ready to utter their pronouncements! If they only knew to what degree I myself understand all the loathsomeness of my present condition, they wouldn't have the heart to teach me.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Heart 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



    Tags : Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes , Mirrors Quotes , Self Quotes
  • Leo Tolstoy's life has been devoted to replacing the method of violence for removing tyranny or securing reform by the method of non­resistance to evil. He would meet hatred expressed in violence by love expressed in self­suffering.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Self Quotes , Evil Quotes
  • The Hasidic rabbi, Zuscha, was asked on his deathbed what he thought the kingdom of God would be like. He replied, "I don't know. But one thing I do know. When I get there I am not going to be asked, 'Why weren't you Moses? Why weren't you David?' I am only going to be asked, 'Why weren't you Zuscha? Why weren't you fully you?'"
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Alan Loy McGinnis Quotes , Self Quotes , Would Be Quotes
  • I am: yet what I am none cares or knows, My friends forsake me like a memory lost; I am the self-consumer of my woes, They rise and vanish in oblivious host, Like shades in love and death's oblivion lost; And yet I am, and live with shadows tost.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : John Clare Quotes , Memories Quotes , Self Quotes