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  • If you want to be a yogi, you must be free, and place yourself in circumstances where you are alone and free from all anxiety. One who desires a comfortable and nice life and at the same time wants to realize the Self is like the fool who, wanting to cross the river, caught hold of a crocodile, mistaking it for a log of wood.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Nice Quotes , Self Quotes
  • Human nature, essentially changeable, as unstable as the dust, can endure no restraint; if it binds itself it soon begins to tear madly at its bonds, until it rends everything asunder, the wall, the bonds, and its very self.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Wall Quotes , Self Quotes
  • Even after the Truth has been realised, there remains that strong, obstinate impression that one is still an ego - the agent and experiencer. This has to be carefully removed by living in a state of constant identification with the supreme non-dual Self. Full Awakening is the eventual ceasing of all the mental impressions of being an ego.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Adi Shankara Quotes , Strong Quotes , Self Quotes
  • Too much of a self-centered attitude creates mistrust and suspicion in others, which can in turn lead to fear. But if you have more of an open mind, and you cultivate a sense of concern for others' well-being, then, no matter what others' attitudes are, you can keep your inner peace.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Attitude Quotes , Self Quotes
  • We depend on our surroundings obliquely to embody the moods and ideas we respect and then to remind us of them. We look to our buildings to hold us, like a kind of psychological mould, to a helpful vision of ourselves. We arrange around us material forms which communicate to us what we need — but are at constant risk of forgetting what we need — within. We turn to wallpaper, benches, paintings and streets to staunch the disappearance of our true selves.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Alain de Botton Quotes , Self Quotes , Ideas Quotes
  • Remember that Divinity is the true self of Man. It cannot be sold for gold; neither can it be heaped up as are the riches of the world today. The rich man has cast off his Divinity, and has clung to his gold. And the young today have forsaken their Divinity and pursue self-indulgence and pleasure.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Khalil Gibran Quotes , Men Quotes , Self Quotes
  • I used to be someone who would not even tread on an ant. But this is a war for honor and self-defense. A 100 percent elimination policy (by Ankara of the Kurds) has forced me to defense and it has become a glorious defense of a people.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Abdullah Ocalan Quotes , War Quotes , Self Quotes