"I believe that mediocrity is self-inflicted and that genius is self-bestowed."
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"Discarding doubt is a decision to reconnect to your original self."
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"There is a luxury in self-dispraise; And inward self-disparagement affords To meditative spleen a grateful feast."
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"Our self (Soul), as a form of God's joy, is deathless. For his joy is amritham, eternal bliss. We know that the life of a Soul, which is finite in its expression and infinite in its principle, must go through the portals of death in its journey to realize the infinite."
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"It's important to be self-aware about what people are saying about you, but even more so, be very aware of who you actually are, and to have that be the main priority."
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"Love is the outreach of self toward completion."
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"The world is not outside you."
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"All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only."
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"Self-reform automatically brings about social reform."
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"If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you."
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"The Self itself is the world; the Self itself is 'I'; the Self itself is God; all is Siva, the Self."
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"If psychedelics are exopheromones that dissolve the dominant ego, then they are also enzymes that synergize the human imagination and empower language. They cause us to connect and reconnect the contents of the collective mind in ever more implausible, beautiful, and self-fulfilling ways."
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"Learn to self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it. As soon you apply yourself to orison, you will at once feel your senses gather themselves together: they seem like bees which return to the hive and there shut themselves up to work at the making of honey. At the first call of the will, they come back more and more quickly. At last, after countless exercises, of this kind, God disposes them to a state of utter rest and of perfect contemplation."
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"I'm sick to death of this particular self. I want another."
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"[We assume] that the self is an actual living thing, but it's not. It's a projection which our clever brains create in order to cheat ourselves from the reality of death."
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"The real reason for a quest is always self-knowledge."
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"The patriot, like the Christian, must learn to bear revilings and persecutions as a part of his duty; and in proportion as the trial is severe, firmness under it becomes more requisite and praiseworthy. It requires, indeed, self-command. But that will be fortified in proportion as the calls for its exercise are repeated."
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"Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love. It is reached when a person deliberately turns his back on all help from anyone else in order to taste the rotten luxury of knowing himself to be lost"
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"We cannot find Him unless we know we need Him. We forget this need when we take a self-sufficient pleasure in our own good works. The poor and helpless are the first to find Him, Who came to seek and to save that which was lost."
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"I think the enemy is self-censorship. In a free society the biggest danger is that you're afraid to the point where you censor yourself."
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