"Much of your pain is self-chosen."
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"No man (sic) has learned to live until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. Length without breadth is like a self-contained tributary having no outward flow to the ocean. Stagnant, still and stale, it lacks both life and freshness. In order to live creatively and meaningfully, our self-concern must be wedded to other concerns."
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"The Self cannot leave You. Awareness cannot leave You. Everything else will leave You. But Awareness is what You Are."
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"Love is the movement within life that carries us, that enables us, that causes us to break out of what Alan Watts calls the “skin-encapsulated ego.” Without love, we are self-centered, but love enables us to move the center of our lives outside our ego. Therefore it expands our lives and, needless to say, enriches it. Any human being would give anything to love or be loved. When it really happens, it is like heaven on earth."
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"Human beings are drawn to cats because they are all we are not — self-contained, elegant in everything they do, relaxed, assured, glad of company, yet still possessing secret lives."
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"I don't stretch my body as if it is an object. I do yoga from the self towards the body, not the other way around."
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"We are all part of the One Spirit. When you experience the true meaning of religion, which is to know God, you will realize that He is your Self, and that He exists equally and impartially in all beings."
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"Individuation is to divest the self of false wrappings."
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"The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self."
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"I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe that I'm somebody else."
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"When we experience the power of the Self, there is an absence of fear, there is no compulsion to control, and no struggle for approval or external power."
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"American's could be any more self absorbed if they were made of equal parts water and paper towel."
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"[Religion] attacks us in our deepest integrity - the core of our self-respect. Religion says that we would not know right from wrong, we would not know an evil, wicked act from a decent human act without divine permission, without divine authority or without, even worse, either the fear of a divine punishment or the hope of a divine reward. It strips us of the right to make our own determination, as all humans always have, about what is and what is not a right human action."
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"The world is full of people who are determined to be somebody or to give trouble. They want to get ahead, to stand out. Such ambition has no use for a gung fu man, who rejects all forms of self-assertiveness and competition"
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"Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world, our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self-acceptance."
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"There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into a scene, as upon a stage, conceal her true emotions because they were weaknesses, helplessness, despair, and present to the world only a smile, an eagerness, curiosity, enthusiasm, interest."
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"Helped are those who are content to be themselves; they will never lack mystery in their lives and the joys of self-discovery will be constant."
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"Guru, God and Self are One"
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"Revolution begins with the self, in the self."
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"The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful... to get a surge of inner life or inner supply or unexpected sense of empowerment, to be afloat, to be out of yourself."
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