Adyashanti Quotes, Self Quotes, Ideas Quotes

We realize--often quite suddenly--that our sense of self, which has been formed and constructed out of our ideas, beliefs and images, is not really who we are. It doesn't define us, it has no center.

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Good government is no substitute for self-government.

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A votary of ahimsa must cultivate the habit of unremitting toil, sleepless vigilance, ceaseless self-control.

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Because sexual intimacy is so sacred, the Lord requires self-control and purity before marriage, as well as full fidelity after marriage... Tears inevitably follow transgression. Men, take care not to make women weep, for God counts their tears.

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The inmost in due time becomes the outmost.

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Release old concepts and energies that keep you in self-punishment patterns. Release old stories and create from a place of love and self-validation. You are worth it!

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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Self Quotes , Punishment Quotes

There was a warmth of fury in his last phrases. He meant she loved him more than he her. Perhaps he could not love her. Perhaps she had not in herself that which he wanted. It was the deepest motive of her soul, this self-mistrust. It was so deep she dared neither realise nor acknowledge. Perhaps she was deficient. Like an infinitely subtle shame, it kept her always back. If it were so, she would do without him. She would never let herself want him. She would merely see.

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

They were still in the happier stages of love. They were full of brave illusions about each other, tremendous illusions, so that the communion of self with self seemed to be on a plane where no other human relations mattered.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Self Quotes , Brave Quotes

I am not interested in being a role model, or in fulfilling the expectations of others. I know I am of most use to others and to myself by being this unique self: Nature, I have noticed, is not particularly devoted to copies, and human beings needn't be either.

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The convent is supreme egotism resulting in supreme self-denial.

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Self Quotes , Denial Quotes

The height, the deity of man is to be self-sustained, to need no gift, no foreign force. Society is good when it does not violate me, but best when it is likest to solitude.

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Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.

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Tags : Laozi Quotes , Self Quotes , Giving Quotes

The guys who stick around are the smartest guys and the guys who are the most self-driven. You have to have drive. The coaches can only take you so far. You have to want to learn and work.

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Do not you see that every misfortune is misconduct; that every honour is desert; that every effort is an insolence of your own?...You carry your fortune in your own hand.

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but i've slammed the door to my inner self; if he ever wants to force the lock again, he'll have to use a harder crowbar!

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There is a self-love solution for every challenge.

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All we really want in the end is to be connected once again with the Truth of our being, to realize what it is that wears this mask of self.

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There can only be two basic loves... the love of God unto the forgetfulness of self, or the love of self unto the forgetfulness and denial of God.

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Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Faith Quotes , Self Quotes

Let us not be too much acquainted. I would have a man enter his house through a hall filled with heroic and sacred sculptures, that he might not want the hint of tranquillity and self-poise.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Men Quotes , Self Quotes

I am only half there when I am ill, and so there is only half a man to suffer. To suffer in one's whole self is so great a violation, that it is not to be endured.

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