"We become compassionate not from altruism which denies the self for the sake of the other, but from the insight that sees and feels one is the other."
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"The bourgeois treasures nothing more highly than the self.... And so at the cost of intensity he achieves his own preservation andsecurity. His harvest is a quiet mind which he prefers to being possessed by God, as he prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to that deathly inner consuming fire."
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"If we ourselves remain angry and then sing world peace, it has little meaning. First, our individual self must learn peace. This we can practice. Then we can teach the rest of the world."
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"That fierce imprisonment in the self is but the obverse of the self-giving which is absolute reality."
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"Give up yourself, and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it."
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"Self-realization means to know truth through yourself, and not through others. By seeking God first, through Self-realization, all things-strength, power, prosperity, wisdom, health, and immortality-will be added unto you."
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"As you forget self in service to others, you will find that, without seeking it, your own cup of happiness will be full."
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"Behold thine immortal Self resurrected with Christ in the light of illumination, present in every soul, every flower, every atom!"
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"If you identify with a mental position, then if you are wrong, your mind-based sense of self is seriously threatened with annihilation. So you as the ego cannot afford to be wrong. To be wrong is to die. Wars have been fought over this, and countless relationships have broken down."
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"Certainly. But take this into consideration: of every ten problems we have, nine are created by our own selves - through guilt, self-punishment, self-pity. However, from time to time a great obstacle appears in our path, which was put there by God, and which is there for a reason. The reason is: to give us the opportunity to change everything, to move forwards."
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"While we are sitting in meditation, we are simply exploring humanity and all of creation in the form of ourselves. We can become the world's greatest experts on anger, jealousy, and self-deprecatio n, as well as on joyfulness, clarity, and insight. Everything that human beings feel, we feel. We can become extremely wise and sensitive to all of humanity and the whole universe simply by knowing ourselves, just as we are."
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"Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly."
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"Apocalypse can mean the unveiling of the deeper self of humanity."
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"Humans have a soul which is their real higher self; a Divine, Mighty, Being."
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"Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not."
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"There is nothing to fear except fear it's self."
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"It is hard to find beauty in the art of self expression."
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"A chair's function is not just to provide a place to sit; it is to provide a medium for self-expression. Chairs are about status, for example. Or signalling something about oneself. That's why the words chair, seat and bench have found themselves used to describe high status professions, from academia to Parliament to the law."
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"All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying -- a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings, if only for an hour."
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"The self is our life's goal, for it is the completest expression of that fateful combination we call individuality."
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